Early Internet - Tumblr Posts
random geocities buttons to use
old Radiohead website finds
went on a internet archive Radiohead deepdive last night. Here are some cool gifs I found. flash/eyestrain warning.
Windows 95 & 98 / Early webcore aesthetic graphics stuff!!
fun fact: Halfbrick as a company has been around since at least 2001, and they have some archives of their old website from that year as well! it holds some very obscure and interesting information about the company's history, including some lost media. some of their earliest known games that were made independently of other companies, such as Defiant, Farma Llamma and Turbelence, were either cancelled, seemingly never went past the drawing board or are lost.
something i find very amusing about this site is this blog post from the 22nd of March 2001, where they remark that the orange colour from their site has been banished. this implies that there is a much older version of the website that was coated in orange rather than this dark blue and silver, but that has since been lost to time. imagining a universe where Halfbrick never used their iconic orange colour is really weird...
![[image id]: A screenshot of a blog post from Halfbrick's old website from 2001. It's very bare and simple, only using basic HTML. It has a dark blue background. The post's title is "Website v 2.0 Is Up" and it is dated from 22/03/2001. The post's content says the following: "Halfbrick have decided it is time to update the website, and well... hmmm... here it is. For those that do not have color blindness you will be glad to see that we have banished the orange color."
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(here is a link to the archive on the Wayback Machine.)
Someone in Phil’s chat said ‘salad fingers’ and just:
I DIDN’T WANT TO BE REMINDED OF THAT!
🦇#⃝20͟0͟8🦇
✮#⃝30͟05✮
SCENE KIDS!!! I CHOOSE YOU!!!
my spacehey >:DD
chibifriends.com, a now mostly forgotten, defunct, virtual pet / social website from the early 2000s. this site is so rare that me and my siblings almost started thinking this was a mandela effect memory we shared, until i finally found it today on the wayback machine - after my sibling confirmed the name was chibifriends, and i decided to just put that .com into wayback and hope for the best!
it launched in 2002, and seems to have peaked in 2004-2006, falling off relatively quickly after that, based on the wayback's archive. i assume gaia online, which launched in 2003 and became very popular very quickly, was pretty heavy competition for the same userbase XD
it had several layout changes of course.
since this was somewhat of a virtual pet site, there was a shop system for users to buy and sell their items. (if my memory is right, you could equip items to your chibifriend, but they only showed as a list of equipped items with no effect or visual change.) you could include images in your shop somehow (i don't remember how it worked but my sister said something about it) and people would usually use their favourite anime and manga pictures for these shops.
i found an old personal fanpage hosted on angelfire featuring graphics to use for your chibishop. you can browse this site here (not on wayback - still live where it was) or just enjoy the screenshot below!
REAL, like why did I have to be cursed to be this stupid virgin boy with little to no charisma whatsoever? god being mentally ill is hard sometimes.
aaaaa i want a bf or gf sooo fricking bad im tired of being single and aloneee someone hold meeee
Based on a computer magazine 'MAC ADDICT V1' 1996.