Forgotten Web Exchange

The Million Dollar Homepage is a commercial advertising website created by Alex Tew in 2005. The site divided a fixed image area into one million pixels that were sold as advertising space for one US dollar per pixel. Its rapid circulation and commercial success made it a notable example of web-native advertising, viral marketing, and Internet entrepreneurship during the mid-2000s.

The Space Jam website is a surviving promotional website published in connection with the 1996 Warner Bros. film. Its distinctive graphics, navigation, page structure, and promotional material remain publicly accessible and provide a notable surviving example of commercial web design from the mid-1990s.

The Heaven's Gate website is a surviving public website associated with the Heaven's Gate religious movement and its activities during the 1990s. The site remains publicly accessible at its historical domain and preserves a substantial body of material associated with the group's online presence during the final period of its activity.

GeoCities was a web-hosting service and online community established in 1994 that enabled users to construct personal websites within themed virtual neighborhoods. Following the closure of the principal service in 2009, substantial portions of its user-created content were preserved through multiple independent archival efforts.

The Trojan Room Coffee Pot was a networked image-monitoring service developed at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory to allow researchers to remotely observe the state of a communal coffee pot. Established as an internal network service in 1991 and made accessible through the World Wide Web in 1993, it became widely recognized as the world's first webcam.

Yahoo! Directory was a hierarchical web-directory service originating in 1994 as Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web. Developed by Jerry Yang and David Filo, the service organized websites into browsable categories and became one of the principal mechanisms through which users discovered information on the expanding early World Wide Web.

Napster was a networked file-sharing system introduced in 1999 that combined centralized file discovery with direct transfers between users. Primarily associated with the exchange of MP3 audio files, the original Napster service became one of the most prominent early peer-to-peer systems before legal action concerning copyright infringement contributed to the shutdown of its original network in 2001.

The first website was created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN as part of the development of the World Wide Web. Hosted at info.cern.ch, the site described the World Wide Web project and provided information concerning web software, documentation, servers, and the emerging network of hypertext resources. CERN later restored the historical website and made it accessible again at its original web address.

WebCrawler was a full-text World Wide Web search and indexing service developed by Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washington and made publicly available in 1994. Unlike earlier web-discovery systems that indexed more limited information, WebCrawler enabled users to search for words occurring throughout indexed webpages and helped establish full-text retrieval as a fundamental model for web search.

Bert is Evil was a parody website created by Filipino artist Dino Ignacio in 1997. The site presented manipulated images and accompanying text that humorously associated the Sesame Street character Bert with historical figures, events, and fictional conspiracies. Its subsequent circulation through mirrors and derivative works became an influential example of participatory culture on the early World Wide Web.

JenniCam was a personal lifecasting website created by Jennifer Ringley in 1996. The service automatically published periodically captured webcam images from Ringley's living spaces, documenting everyday activity with minimal editorial intervention. Operating until 2003, JenniCam became an influential early example of continuous personal publication on the World Wide Web.

FogCam is a networked imaging service established at San Francisco State University in 1994 by Jeff Schwartz and Dan Wong. The service periodically publishes images from the university campus and is recognized by San Francisco State University as the world's longest continuously running webcam. Following a proposed shutdown in 2019, operational responsibility for FogCam was transferred to the university.

Cameron's World is an interactive web artwork created by Cameron Askin from text, images, graphics, and other material recovered from archived GeoCities websites. Published in 2015, the project assembles fragments originating across the GeoCities ecosystem into a new web collage that explores the visual culture and personal expression of the early World Wide Web.

JumpStation was an early World Wide Web search service developed by Jonathon Fletcher at the University of Stirling in 1993. The system combined automated web crawling, indexing, and a searchable web interface, establishing a model subsequently associated with web search engines.

The Palace is a graphical networked chat system originating in the mid-1990s in which users interact within illustrated rooms using graphical avatars. Although official development of the original system has ended, compatible clients, servers, and communities have continued independently.

NCSA What's New was an early World Wide Web discovery resource maintained at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications during the rapid expansion of the Web in the early 1990s. The page presented newly announced websites, services, and developments to users of the emerging Web.

Hampster Dance was a personal GeoCities webpage created by Deidre LaCarte during the late 1990s. Built from repeated animated rodent graphics and a looping audio sample, the page became an early example of widely circulated web-native popular culture.

ALIWEB, or Archie-Like Indexing for the Web, was an early World Wide Web indexing and search system developed by Martijn Koster at Nexor. Rather than discovering pages through automated crawling, ALIWEB relied upon information supplied by participating website administrators.

Cool Site of the Day was an early curated Web resource established by Glenn Davis in 1994 that selected and linked to a different noteworthy website each day. The original resource is no longer available at its documented historical network location, while later resources have used the same name and associated domain without presently established continuity.