Ghost Sites of the Web: Where Dead Sites Live On... Where Web Disasters Are Still Fresh

Identifying and critiquing aging, abandoned, and derelict web sites since 1996. Includes a Web 1.0 screenshot library, essays, and "The Museum of Interactive Failure." By Internet Marketing veteran Steve Baldwin.

March 19, 2008

Ancient DEC Video Depicts the Web of 1994


I found this great video on Blogoscoped.com, Philipp Lenssen fascinating, frequently updated Blog. Created by DEC (the Digital Equipment Company), it shows a succession of early Web pages, accompanied by portentous narration. Of course, these battleship gray pages (they seem to have acquired a greenish tint, perhaps from mold) look hopelessly antiquated to us now, but this video does recapture the initial sense of absolute wonderment that many felt when seeing the Web for the first time.

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