Ask HN: What are your favorite funny things from the old internet?

6 firefax 5 6/28/2025, 8:00:41 PM
the thick coin [1] recently and rightfully made the front page, where many were in awe of the designer's eye for design (hence the title "designer".) what other humorous or well designed pages from the early internet did you enjoy?

[1] this is a link to the thick coin [2]

[2] thick-coins.net

Comments (5)

leakycap · 10h ago
Hampster Dance circa '97: https://web.archive.org/web/19990429045319/http://hampsterda...

Homestar Runner still works 25 years later: https://homestarrunner.com

Trojan Room Coffee Pot is my kind of fun https://web.archive.org/web/19961226162310/http://www.cl.cam...

firefax · 9h ago
>Hampster Dance

that's the stuff

toomuchtodo · 2h ago
plaidwombat · 8h ago
MilnerRoute · 3h ago
Somebody pulled together web page back around 2005 - their list of the "greatest internet moments" (between 1995 and 2005)...

http://aolwatch.org/100/

The first one that came to my mind was "All Your Base Are Belong to Us." (The video where all the images where spliced together...)