Bits & Bytes

Digital Paleontology

Unearthing the Internet's Cringeworthy Past, One Tag at a Time
January 10, 2024

This isn’t nostalgia. This is excavation. We’re here to brush the dirt off tags, carbon-date banner ads, and remind the world that Prodigy had more effective parental controls than most apps do now.

You think the early internet was just a pixelated version of today? Cute. Back then, “surfing the web” meant loading a page, getting a snack, and possibly aging a little. Websites blinked because someone wrote , not because your phone was out of RAM. And yes, people willingly typed full URLs into Netscape Navigator like it was a sacred ritual.

This series is for anyone who’s ever said, “I remember when,” and especially for those who don’t—but should.

Digital Paleontology doesn’t romanticize the past. It just insists we stop Photoshopping it. Because if you look at a GeoCities page full of dancing babies and say “this was basically Instagram,” you’re part of the problem.

So grab your digital trowel. It’s time to dig.

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