Day 31 
The revival
The old web is still here - in the form of the indie web.
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Day 30 
The Death of Flash
What ended on December 31, 2020.
Day 29 
The image map
Navigation as a picture
Day 28 
The forum & the BBS
ANSI terminal, reputation as a visible number.
Day 27 
The blogroll
Movable Type, 2003, a feed you curated yourself.
Day 26 
Stamps & fanlistings
deviantART, 2006: affiliation before the follow button.
Day 25 
Adoptables and pixel pets
Neopets petpage, 2001.
Day 24 
The table layout
Every gap on this page is a picture.
Day 23 
Search before Google
AltaVista, 1997: stuff the keywords yourself and watch the page climb
Day 22 
The tagboard
A 250 by 200 room in somebody else’s margin, and auto-refresh cost $20 a year.
Day 21 
<marquee> & <blink>
One is in the standard today, the other is a 404.
Day 20 
The stats page
Somebody’s real 1995 traffic, at a guessable URL, with no login.
Day 19 
The GeoCities deletion
Real pages, recovered and held here.
Day 18 
The hit counter
One number, on your page, that you and every visitor could see at once.
Day 17 
The tiled background
Forty-two patterns, 3,586 bytes.
Day 16 
The splash page
A timer, a threshold you clicked, and a gate that checked you first.
Day 15 
MIDI & site music
A twenty track arrangement in 7.6KB, and your machine played it.
Day 14 
View source
No stylesheet, no script - press Ctrl+U and you can read all of it.
Day 13 
Link rot
A link is a promise somebody keeps paying for.
Day 12 
The frameset
Persistent navigation, and no address for the page you are on.
Day 11 
The guestbook
Perl CGI, 1995. Comments you owned, spliced in at an HTML comment. Sign it, it's real
Day 10 
The blinkie
150 by 20, three colors, two frames - shelved by color, never by subject.
Day 09 
Site awards
A badge has no bottom, but a score out of 100 does.
Day 08 
The directory
33 headings on one page, 13 of them shortcuts out of it.
Day 07 
The webring
A circle with no index and no owner, routed through one script.
Day 06 
The custom cursor
A page could take your pointer, and usually should not have.
Day 05 
The 88x31 button
GeoCities, 1997, an ad unit that became a friendship token
Day 04 
Teletext & Minitel
Ceefax, 1974, a network with no address bar: you reached a service by knowing its number.
Day 03 
HyperCard
1-bit Macintosh, 1987. The authoring tools were already installed
Day 02 
The first website
NeXTSTEP, 1990. The browser that could also edit every page it showed you.
Day 02 
yahew.com
A field guide to the old web.
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