week 42, year 2024 - ye olde web

20 October 2024

Updated: 29 August 2025

the past few weeks have been pretty much just a youtube-fueled mess of internet nostalgia and rain but from that i suppose we have a few nuggets of internet history

what i found

the internet archive

as many of us have probably heard, the internet archive is currently offline while they make some changes due to a DDOS attack that happened recently

the kilobyte age

the one terabyte of kilobyte age website is an ongoing page posting pictures of websites from the geocities archive from 2009 and provides a glimpse into what the internet looked like in the early days. there’s also this youtube video that talks about the preservation efforts by the team which is worth the watch

where did this gif come from

jeffiot’s youtube video on the origins of the skull trumpet gif takes a dive into finding the original source of an image from the early web and takes some interesting turns along the way

the verge, 2004

the verge has a pretty cool microsite for it’s “2004 week” which, alongside it’s early 2000’s design, has pretty some good articles talking about the early days of the internet