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The internet's oldest websites from as early as the 80s are still available to visit today

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Published 10:20 29 May 2024 GMT+1

The internet's oldest websites from as early as the 80s are still available to visit today

You can still visit websites from the 80s and 90s.

Rebekah Jordan

Rebekah Jordan

Dare I say we're 40 years from the 80s, but incredibly, the internet still holds some gems from those days.

And you can still visit some of them today.

One of the oldest .com domains is symbolics.com and it was registered back in March 1985.

Symbolics was a computer manufacturer that's no longer around, but its website still exists and was last updated in 2010.

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The company was eventually bought by an investor group in Dallas, Texas.

Another early site is Interrupt Technology Corp, back in September 1986, which couldn't get any more basic than black and white text - I'm talking plainer than the error 404 page not found.

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clu/Getty

The website was created to meet the expectation that every company should have a web presence. One seemingly resentful employee wrote: 'This Web page exists primarily to satisfy the needs of those who expect every domain to have a Web presence.'

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Onto Vortex.com‘s domain which was registered in October 1986. It was set up by Lauren Weinstein, the co-founder of People For Internet Responsibility, Network Neutrality Squad, and founder of the PRIVACY Forum.

This site is a collection of information to help people become better internet 'citizens' - whatever that means.

The design is pretty old-school, but it was last updated in 2017.

Then there's purple.com, registered in 1994. If you look this one up, all you'll find is a plain purple page with a funny FAQ section and an option to buy the site for around $1.5 million.

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There's not much else to it, but its simplicity is kind of charming.

Space Jam
Space Jam

Milk.com is another gem from 1994. Like purple.com, it might be for sale if you can shell out about $10 million. The site has some amusing FAQs and links, making it a fun visit if you have some time to kill.

And who could forget the classic Space Jam website from Warner Bros? This site is pure nostalgia, with its starry background and mid-90s graphics. It's archived now but nice to know it hasn't been outright deleted.

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And to end on a banger, there's a site dedicated to bashing Internet Explorer.

Created in 1998, this site dedicated its purpose to ranting about the controversies and evilness of the browser after Microsoft pushed its users to install IE 1.

As the website reads: 'This site is dedicated to preserving and expressing the humor and controversy around the intrusive introduction of Microsoft Internet Explorer and how Microsoft abused its dominant position in the Operating System Marketplace.'

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