GeoCities: What Was Actually On It
Millions of handmade pages, organised into neighbourhoods, deleted in one afternoon in 2009. What GeoCities actually contained, and what got saved.
Read the stories, then play the things. Quizzes that read you, calculators that diagnose you, generators for the group chat, plus the weird web your algorithm forgot.
Millions of handmade pages, organised into neighbourhoods, deleted in one afternoon in 2009. What GeoCities actually contained, and what got saved.
The 1990s and 2000s internet is not entirely gone. Some of it was archived, some of it is…
You spend hours a day in this thing. It has a reading mode, a tab search, per-site settings…
Who is saving the web, how the snapshots get made, why so many pages fail to archive properly,…
90-second personality tests. Screenshot the result, send it to the group chat.
The big one. Five questions, sixteen possibilities, one truth.
A formal threat assessment.
A bestiary of your search bar.
Tier your invisibility.
A 5-question vibe scan disguised as a music quiz.
From "list of unusual deaths" to "the schism of 1378" in 4 questions.
Move the sliders, get a number, confront the truth.
How much cringe can you withstand per day.
Carbon-date yourself by your first online memory.
Do you actually have a brand or are you posting vibes.
You will get sleep. We compute when.
For evenings spent picking, not watching.
What is your attention span actually, in seconds.
Type a topic, roll, copy, share. Repeat until you are late for something.
Open the tab. Close it in 4 hours.
A line for the song you will never make.
For your next 10-minute video essay.
Pick a real thing instead.
Make any topic feel like forbidden knowledge.
Imagine the brand. We named it for you.
Ranked by how often people actually opened and finished them.
AI tools, gadgets and technology explained without the hype — what actually works, what is a demo, and what is…
You spend hours a day in this thing. It has a reading mode, a tab search, per-site settings and about a dozen shortcuts that would save you real…
The phrase is used for three quite different things. Knowing which one you are looking at changes what…
Not the launches that got keynotes. The unglamorous changes underneath that reshaped browsing without anyone announcing them.
Most AI tools look incredible for about four minutes. Here is the short checklist worth running before one…
Memes, trends, online behaviour and the strange social rules of being on the internet. Why everyone is suddenly saying that,…
The 1990s and 2000s internet is not entirely gone. Some of it was archived, some of it is still running, and some of it has been rebuilt on…
Thirty personality quizzes about how you actually behave online. Most take under two minutes, every result has its…
Big heading, three columns of icons, a gradient, a rounded button. There are real reasons the web converged…
It started as an insult, became a genre, then got picked as a dictionary word of the year.…
Tab hoarding is not a discipline problem. It is what happens when a browser tab quietly becomes a…
The internet nobody optimised. Strange websites, useless tools, abandoned corners and things that exist for no reason at all.
Not a digital detox. Swaps that give you the same thing scrolling gives you — novelty, low effort, something to look at — but that actually end.
Games and sites that work over a shared link — no installs, no accounts, no one person having…
Websites that actually work on a touchscreen. The ones that need a mouse are listed too, so you…
Calm websites for 1am. Nothing that autoplays, nothing with an infinite feed, nothing that will still have you…
Quiet websites that load fast, need no sound, and close in one keystroke. For the ten minutes between…
Strange corners, useless marvels and sites that should not still be online. They are.
Set aside an hour.
A photo of someone pointing at your cursor.
A button. A surprise. The internet at its most internet.
The patron saint of "I'm bored, internet me".
Set aside an hour.
Data essays so good they feel like cinema.
Filterable collections of weird websites, lost media, browser games and internet nostalgia.
Films, ads, pilots and tapes that vanished from the internet.
Web 1.0 design references — guestbooks, gradients, "under construction".
A leaderboard of the most reliably hour-eating sites on the web.
GitHub repos you can run in a browser tab.
A growing dictionary of AI image styles, with prompt cues.
Servers where the conversation is actually good.
Everything on the site, shuffled. Keep scrolling and we will keep finding things.
Find the internet decade your personality is still loading from.
The places you forgot the internet used to live.
A bestiary of your search bar.
Pick a real thing instead.
Imagine the brand. We named it for you.
How you actually play games. There are only two kinds.
How bad is the tab situation. Be honest.
A diagnostic with a 92% disturbing-accuracy rate.