Gaia Online.
It’s been around since 2003 and it still clings on to its early roots of the internet but with awful modern internet decisions.
It’s surely one of the first sites that I know and use, and it’s still alive. I think it’s from the 90s. (Looked it up again, their earliest visitor count starts at 1997)
Later we have Metal Archives, but I think Lost Souls Domain was the first website where you look for Metal music informations.
No idea why this is the 3rd time this has come up now, but I just learned this year that an anti “barney the dinosaur” webpage is among the oldest still active ones, where you can shoot and stab him.
Hate for children’s media for being… for children has really come a long way. Now we hate them for legitimate reasons, like peppa pig for being bloody monarchists and Bluey for being Australian.
Yahoo.com always comes to mind for these.
Honourable mention:
https://homestarrunner.com/www.crazyguyonabike.com is an old one that is still running.
1994, and still quite active
GameFAQs.com launched November 5, 1995, although it didn’t have that name or URL until 1996.
I just used them last week for a walkthrough on some old GB games I haven’t played in 20 years.
Can’t get older than this one:
Neat. It even includes a table of content for the web.
https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.htmlI remember visiting that site from an Arena browser on a remote X-Windows session. It was back when that site was still hosted on Tims NeXT cube on his desk.
Relevant XKCD : https://xkcd.com/855/
I give you Warren Buffets company website.
https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/The domain was purchased in 1996 It looks like they never updated the layout since.
I just went through and checked out the site and hit a bunch of the links… Honestly, with the nature of the data, there really is no reason to have more than the basics. Also, think of what Berkshire Hathaway is about and as far as maximizing everything that they can for the stake and stock-holders, it makes sense. Focus on the investment essentials, not the window dressing online.
I wish more businesses were oriented this way.
it has taken on a life of its’ own
That’s an apostrophe mistake I haven’t seen before.
Don’t be so quick to assume that its’ a mistake!!!
There is an it. And then there’s another it. And some more its, perhaps.
I don’t know what the life of their own is, though. I am also not sure if I do want to know.But rest assured: It was surely not a mistake.
The its are coming. I, four one, welcome our it overlords!Hmmm. Interesting…
Plural and possessive? Which doesn’t make sense. Idk
it
Its’
Yep. One appears plural.
unironically the best corporate site I’ve ever seen.
Straight up hard coding in a Geico ad is a strong choice…
I wonder if they change it or Buffet is still getting 1996 page view numbers on a perpetual contract?
Which is kind of the general vibe of BH. They’ve never bought the hype, and have kept going with boring but practical.
There’s an ad on it, which gets past my adblocker since it’s a simple hardcoded link and logo.
How ads should be. Simple, non tracking.
I notice the page does have Google Analytics, which is the only thing that did get blocked.
If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can write us at the address shown above
i love this part, reads like oh yeah well what if you do wanna tell us about our WEB page you fuckin NERD
I like to think they got too many email along the lines of
Sign up with our SEO plan and we will drive up engagement to your site and increase user retention time using the latest technology of (insert buzzword of the day, synthetic testing, machine learning, blockchain, native cloud, hybrid cloud, web2.0 , web3.0, etc).
dear mr buffet, find enclosed a sample of big dick power pills as a gesture of good will
that’s why he makes the big bucks
Everybody get up, it’s time to slam now! We got a real jam goin’ down now!
THAT’S what I was looking for!
Relevant Red Letter Media short film: The Great Space Jam.
The website of that big suicide cult. I don’t know how old the site actually is but it’s very 90s.
Fun fact, back in 2018 I emailed them asking if someone would take over once they were not able to have that responsibility, and if so, who. They replied the next day, and just said (copy and pasted from that email):
Yes, it will be. You would not know them.
I wonder who’s still paying for it.
If I remember right, there’s one dude that “stayed behind” to keep it up and running.
Uh-huh. What a sacrifice. /s
In fairness, he may be the smartest of the bunch.
https://netbsd.org/ registered March 1994
https://perdu.com/ registered June 1996.
