Retro Stuff

I grew up with the web of the 90s and early 2000s. With Geocities, FTP, Microsoft FrontPage, Netscape Navigator, CuteFTP, Winamp, Napster and personal websites. I often get nostalgic about all that. If you do too, you might enjoy this collection of things from that era.

Built With

The design of this website itself is a tribute to websites of that period.

Most of the animated GIFs on this site are from Internet Archive's GIFcities, a searchable repository of animated gifs from old Geocities websites.

Every single page is hand-coded and hand-linked, right down to the RSS feed (if you find errors, please let me know). It's hosted on Neocities, a modern-day Geocities-like web host where you can find and follow lots of other old-school websites.

Websites and Resources

These are websites related to either archiving, documenting or keeping alive the spirit of the 90s/early 2000s web and computer culture:

• Internet Archive, a library of millions of free books, movies, software, music and more. You can even play old games and listen to entire albums!
• WayBack Machine, lets you travel back in time and browse saved versions of most public websites since 1997. Maybe your old site is still there!
• Windows 98 Icon Viewer, where you can browse and download all of the wonderfully detailed little icons from Windows 98 (thanks to Alex Meub).
• Smart Guestbook, a free hosted guestbook like the one on this website.
• Neocities Websites, a searchable directory of all Neocities websites.
• Wiby, a search engine for simple, no-frills webpages with interesting content. Also has a surprise me link that takes you to a random site.
• Virtual Vault, a collection of links to cool, weird and interesting webpages, most of which have an "old school internet" feel to them.
• The Geocities Gallery, a restored gallery of the archived Geocities sites, sorted by neighborhood. Lots of gemsd: a complete guide to European butterflies (in German), a definitive list of commemorative Coca-Cola bottles and MIDI songs to famous TV show/movie soundtracks, and much more!
• Mydora, a continous streaming player that lets you listen to 490,273 recovered/archived songs from MySpace before they were all lost.
• Screenshots from developers & Unix people (2002), if you ever wondered what the desktops of famous computer people looked like in 2002.
• Project Gemini, a new, collaboratively designed internet protocol, which explores the space inbetween gopher and the web. Read FAQ for details.
• Epic Rock Radio, the loudest of all online radios, streaming symphonic, progressive and powermetal non-stop since 2004, run by an old friend.

Tools and Utilities

Want to experience the the 90s and early 2000s first-hand? Here are some tools and utilies to get you started:

• Webamp, lets you run Winamp 2 on your browser (and it works!)
• Re:amp, a native clone of Winamp 2 for Mac OS X, with support for skins.
• Floodgap Public Gopher Proxy, lets you access the old Gopher network (that precedes the web) through your web browser.
• Castor, a graphical client for plain-text protocols written in Rust with GTK. It currently supports the Gemini, Gopher and Finger protocols.
• DOS Games Archives, where you can browse, download and play over a thousand MS-DOS games like Doom, Bio Menace, Mario and AirTrax.
• Gifsicle, a tiny command-line tool for *nix, Mac, Windows or even DOS to create, edit and optimise well-behaved animated gifs.

Winamp skins, Games and Music

This page is under construction. I have a lot more stuff to add and will be doing so over time. Be sure to check back every once in a while.

Guestbook

Of course this website has a guestbook!

What do you think about this page? Do you have a 90s thing that you'd like to see added? Or you just have a comment maybe. You can sign my guestbook or you can read what others have written.

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• This website is under construction. Last updated: 25 May 2020.
• All original text and music on this website are free and in the public domain under the CC0 1.0 Universal license. Download, copy and remix any way you like.
• Made in France. All pages hand-coded, like in the old days. Valid HTML and CSS.
• Hosted on Neocities. View website source code on GitHub. RSS feed available.
• Best viewed in any browser, including Netscape Navigator, Firefox and lynx.
• The main font is Barlow by Jeremy Tribby.

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