The idea that once something hits the internet, its there forever, isnt true.

Jims Website:These kinds of personal sites were the Twitter users with three followers of the old-timey web.

No one visits, and it sits there, a never-visited monument to banality.

This one was rescued from Geocities through therestorativland project.

Spork.org:No offense to whoever created this fan-page in 1995, but its arent I so random?

faux-veneration of the spork isnt funny; its depressing, especially 25 years later.

But the design of her site is so eye-destroyingly terrible, its painful to read, literally.

Inside the X:I am in love with thisX-Filespage.

Parallel/Suzanne Treister the hall:I have no idea whats going on with this Australian site.

It contributes to the on-going research into web practices and theories.

Check it out:Your guess is as good as mine.

Funny and slyly subversive, The Simulator still works!

Its all in the form of the employee intranet at InGen.

Check out thisblog-post, though, for a look at some of the most notable Flash-revolution sites.

It was homegrown and organic and some of it survives.

Plus, its still hosted with its original domain name, and thehistory of its development and preservationis fascinating.

you’re able to also check out Clinton/Gores site, complete withdownloadable screensaversand spinning GIFs.

People Eating Tasty Animals: Owning the libs online isnt a new thing.

This parody site seems tailored to make sensitive liberal people sputter angrily.

It contains all kinds of pro-meat information, and an extensivehate mail section.

I can only assume its continued existence comes down to pure spite.

McSpotlight: In the interest of providing equal time for lefty propaganda, enjoy this site from 1996.

Taco.com:Technical Advisors provides system and internet administration.

We do not sell tacos.

We do not make tacos.

in fact some of us do not even like them very much.

But instead, they keep up their 1990s-era site.

Milk.com: Dan Borestein saysmilk.comis not for sale.

If youre not offering $10 million, Im not interested, Borestein writes.

Hall of Fame

The sites below are among the OGs of the web 1.0 era.

Theyve been around forever and are still famous.

But the main page has been up since 1994, populated with links as dead as its business model.

Zombo.com: Parody sitezombo.comis legendary for doing nothing.