I post about the original Direct Debit website from time to time and get the impression nobody cares. So I thought I'd try you lot! It's the most surreal "corporate" website I've ever seen, a product from the early web when the website was just run by the work experience kid and nobody in management actually understood what it was.
It's worth going forward to 1998-ish on web.archive.org too, as it was refreshed a bit then. I fairly recently managed to locate the Man vs Marrow screensaver, maybe I'll post about that some other time.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey, if you are interested. I'll pitch an idea to you. I think it will be good to see a

/c/bestofarchivedotorg

Community. Where people can suggest a nice cached time-capsule of a website now and then

[–] Kaliax 10 points 2 years ago

Fantastic idea.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I kind of miss this era of the internet, it was truly the wild west of web design. No rules, just whatever works, works and damn the rest.

[–] Kwason 12 points 2 years ago

Check out neocities.org

[–] Tum 12 points 2 years ago

That was a really interesting descent down a rabbit hole, I'll not soon forget that! It reminds me of stumbling across sites like Ted the Caver, and some other oddities in the very early 2000s at 3 or 4am. Thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I do have trouble sleeping, but this only made it worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So I thought I’d try you lot!

One of my favorite songs: "You Lot"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLKOIHrnk80

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Was hoping to see orbital. I think that's a sample from some Christopher Eccleston flick. Also love their track Doctor?

[–] daleus 1 points 2 years ago

Knew what it was without clicking, iirc it was an ITV series called "Messiah" or something like that.

Ecclestone is supposed to be the son of God, returned...or some shite like that.

[–] Zerlyna 3 points 2 years ago

I think I went through all the screens and still awake lol. Good one!

[–] Jfqs6m 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow this is amazing, immediately subscribed to this community. The RetroNet motif really calls to me.

Just found RetroNet.net, it's a shame it looks unmaintained. Sounds like a really cool idea.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

wow I didn't even realize there was a website named RetroNET when I created this community (great minds think alike, eh?)

hopefully the creator of that page finds their way here since we've already got a lot of great content being submitted by users!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That was wild - cheers

[–] Ogoshi 1 points 2 years ago

That really is bizarre!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

What an amazing find, this is so surreal...