Ask HN: What are your favorite funny things from the old internet?

7•firefax•7mo ago

the thick coin [1] recently and rightfully made the front page, where many were in awe of the designer's eye for design (hence the title "designer".) what other humorous or well designed pages from the early internet did you enjoy?

[1] this is a link to the thick coin [2]

[2] thick-coins.net

Comments

leakycap•7mo ago

Hampster Dance circa '97: https://web.archive.org/web/19990429045319/http://hampsterda...

Homestar Runner still works 25 years later: https://homestarrunner.com

Trojan Room Coffee Pot is my kind of fun https://web.archive.org/web/19961226162310/http://www.cl.cam...

firefax•7mo ago

>Hampster Dance

that's the stuff

plaidwombat•7mo ago

https://maddox.xmission.com

firefax•7mo ago

the original fratire-ist

MilnerRoute•7mo ago

Somebody pulled together web page back around 2005 - their list of the "greatest internet moments" (between 1995 and 2005)...

http://aolwatch.org/100/

The first one that came to my mind was "All Your Base Are Belong to Us." (The video where all the images where spliced together...)

toomuchtodo•7mo ago

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL03A92E8F025C358A

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