📽️📺 Named for a classic Star Trek torture device, The Agony Booth was a cult site for brutally honest movie & TV reviews.

Running from the early 2000s until 2022, it chronicled pop culture pain for a generation.

Revisit web history with the #WaybackMachine ⤵️
https://web.archive.org

#WebNostalgia #InternetHistory #WaybackMachine #PopCulture #MovieReviews #StarTrek

💾 Like many early social media platforms, Bebo went through an identity crisis: launching in 2005 with college students as its target audience, then expanding to teens, young adults, & eventually the general public.

See Bebo's brief history on the #WaybackMachine ⤵️
https://web.archive.org/web/20050601000000*/https://bebo.com

#Wayback1T #WebNostalgia #InternetHistory

I've been distracting myself with something I haven't done in awhile, building a website. It's actually pretty fun... when you know what you're doing or what you want to do at least. Every day I've been spending a little bit of time after work hacking away at it. It's been a nice distraction from work and doom-scrolling just playing around with CSS & HTML again. I'm not going to go overboard or anything (this time), the focus is going to be on actually writing & posting instead of the rabbit hole of endless tweaking that many fall prey to.

While I have the Fediverse, old school Web 1.0 has always held it's sway over me.

#leisure #indieweb #webnostalgia

Before streaming or YouTube, there was cartoonnetwork․com, 📺 home to Flash games, clips of Ed, Edd n Eddy & Samurai Jack, & Cartoon Orbit, a virtual playground where kids collected and traded digital cards and “orbs.”

The site's gone, but you don't need Dexter's Lab to travel back in time to revisit it — just use the Wayback Machine ⤵️ https://web.archive.org/web/19981001000000*/cartoonnetwork.com

#Wayback1T #FlashGames #WebNostalgia #WaybackMachine #InternetHistory

OOP once ruled the frontend.

Then came jQuery, AngularJS, React, ES6, and TypeScript, and everything changed.

medium.com/gitconnected...

#DevLore #WebNostalgia #OOP #JavaScript #CodeCulture #Frontend

Internet Artifacts

https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/

#HackerNews #InternetArtifacts #DigitalCulture #OnlineHistory #WebNostalgia #InternetHistory

🟣 🟡Everybody's Free (To Write Websites)
by Sara Joy @sarajw @sarajoydev
#webdev #webnostalgia

https://sarajoy.dev/blog/write-websites/

Mastodon feels a bit like ICQ, the first social media website I used. So many good memories here.

I'd love it if we can bring this feeling of excitement to this part of the free web!

(Also I might just create my next project in this design!) #mastodon #Webnostalgia