Pray Before the Head of ‘Bob’
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“The Ultimate Oracle: Over 1625038 Questions Answered.” A great old site that is quirky to boot. Features early HTML, a button map, and ubiquitous tiled background image.
1994-1995
Piero Scaruffi’s Web Site
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A legendary site where content (heavily music reviews) trumps design. According to the about page, Scaruffi “became one of the very first websites, and possibly the first website ever to carry the name of its owner (for lack of imagination). So www.scaruffi.com has existed in one form or another...
TravelASSIST Magazine
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“The web’s first online travel magazine.” They were adding a travel-only search engine but it never quite happened. Lots of old articles and images from 1996 though ads have been added since.
Pacific Grand Prix
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A very old site, this site is “optimized for Netscape 1.1” and is almost as simple as it gets. There’s a header image, menu buttons, and a few links for results and photos. Interestingly, there’s a banner from website sponsor HP (very early to see such a thing).