NickMar 29, 2023

afterDinner (v 1.0), the equally-wonderful successor to PBoT, launched in 1997, its archives snapped in 1999:

https://web.archive.org/web/19990503121645/http://www.afterdinner.com/archive.html

afterdinner : archive

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not stuck in the Wayback Machine but injudiciously bounced out of its frameset, Zeldman’s Web Celeb interview in 1998:

https://www.zeldman.com/15/massie.html

The 15 Minutes Project: Web Celeb

The 15 Minutes Project, incorporating Celeb Salon. Celebrity interviews in RealVideo. Movie actors, directors, writers. Web designers, writers, producers.

Mar 29, 2023 at 5:16amMastonaut
Show threadNickMar 29, 2023

And let’s pause for the night with Regarding.com c. 1999, one of those audio-first late-90s websites that is rendered mute because the Wayback Machine never saved RealAudio streams. “[A] topical discussion, a sly wink, a secret confession, and a broadcast beacon, and it exists out of love for communication, in all its forms.”

https://web.archive.org/web/19991012215303/http://regarding.com/mindex.html

Wayback Machine

Show threadPhil GyfordMar 29, 2023
@holgate This bit: "I've done nothing else in life. Truly. I have friends and loves (all of which I met online), but other than that, I spend all my time dealing with the Net. Does it shock you that I'm not weeping? Does it mean I'm broken, somehow?"