MediaFaro Magazine<p>My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet.</p><p>Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing.</p><p>But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future.</p><p><a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250803-my-journey-to-the-heart-of-the-forgotten-internet?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mediafaro.org/article/20250803</span><span class="invisible">-my-journey-to-the-heart-of-the-forgotten-internet?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Internet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Web</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Websites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Websites</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/InternetArchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternetArchive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Dialup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dialup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/GeoCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeoCities</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/EBaumsWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EBaumsWorld</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a></p>
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Time travel! Love the retro search UI. Terrific work @internetarchive!
Keep on GIFin’ — A New Version of GifCities, Internet Archive’s GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine! https://blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/keep-on-gifin-a-new-version-of-gifcities-internet-archives-geocities-animated-gif-search-engine/ #GeoCities #GIF #InternetArchive
blog.archive.orgKeep on GIFin’ — A New Version of GifCities, Internet Archive’s GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine! | Internet Archive Blogs
"The level of creativity and versatility on display on your average Geocities site is hard to understate. Most were a cross between amateur experiments and love letters to this or that piece of pop culture. They were plastered with recipes, vacation photos, esoteric images, and tidbits of slash fiction."
The History of the Web · Exploring the web in 1995 - The History of the WebBy the end of 1995, the web moved outward and into the hands of everyone.
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Today on OneTerabyteOfKilobyteAge
https://www.tumblr.com/oneterabyteofkilobyteage/784555473009508352
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Also today on OneTerabyteOfKilobteAge, this very cute homepage!
https://www.tumblr.com/oneterabyteofkilobyteage/783261948755214336/ https://web.archive.org/web/20090903080717/http://geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/8646/
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Today on OneTerabyteOfKilobyteAge, a Geocities page that mentions nostalgia for the 90s web.
https://www.tumblr.com/oneterabyteofkilobyteage/783245592035000321/
https://web.archive.org/web/20090830011044/http://geocities.com/SouthBeach/Docks/9187/
the essay: https://web.archive.org/web/20090804031938/http://geocities.com/SouthBeach/Docks/9187/anessay.html (viewing through the Wayback Machine a page that mention the Wayback Machine. This whole post is very meta).
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Today on oneterabyteofkilobyteage, another music-related homepage, but in a very different genre!
https://www.tumblr.com/oneterabyteofkilobyteage/782831613488807936/
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Today on oneterabyteofkilobyteage, some no input mixing music from Malaysia
https://www.tumblr.com/oneterabyteofkilobyteage/782590022695124993/
The first album is, of course, on Bandcamp: https://exceptionalfrequency.bandcamp.com/album/internal-pleasures-2004-original-master
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Today on oneterabyteofkilobyteage, some Markov chain in action!
Read it as an extended version of Fitter Happier.
https://www.tumblr.com/oneterabyteofkilobyteage/781886637545259008/original-url https://web.archive.org/web/20090725010415/http://www.geocities.com/acostacliff27/
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Today on oneterabyteofkilobyteage, some yummy gradients (that are not included in the zips).
https://www.tumblr.com/oneterabyteofkilobyteage/781091397197578240/ https://web.archive.org/web/20090804141508/http://www.geocities.com/stuff4psp/
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And on the some day on oneterabyteofkilobyteage, the end of the interweb https://www.tumblr.com/oneterabyteofkilobyteage/779689661499097088
#oldweb #interweb #geocities #oneterabyteofkilobyteage
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A few days ago on oneterabyteofkilobyteage: I'm feeling called out, even if it's far from bed time
The page heading is actually dynamic! https://www.tumblr.com/oneterabyteofkilobyteage/779693435722645504 https://web.archive.org/web/20091026061102/http://geocities.com/goldstarphoto/
#oneterabyteofkilobyteage #geocities #oldweb
Today on oneterabyteofkilobyteage:
In 1997 when I first put up my website, there weren't many other transgendered websites, particularly Scottish ones, and it was an asset to the community. Nowadays things have changed
https://www.tumblr.com/oneterabyteofkilobyteage/778618855869366272/ https://web.archive.org/web/20090218190420/http://www.geocities.com/yvonnecam/
Good discussion happening on Hacker News about my #GeoCities 1995 post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43296103
If you're on Hacker News, I'd appreciate your upvotes (I think this is the first time a Cybercultural post has got to the front page there).
news.ycombinator.comGeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet | Hacker News
"The key to [Beverly Hills Internet]'s initial growth over 1995 was helping people who had no technical knowledge of HTML to build a web page on the internet. It offered a “Personal GeoPage Generator” that enabled homesteaders to easily create a home page.
But more than that, and as the name for its users implied, Bohnett wanted to give people the sense that they had a home on the internet."
CyberculturalGeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet
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