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Title: ..first(oldest) web site..
Post by: Naughty Alien on Jul 30, 2025, 05:43 AM
..apparently, this is first and oldest web site and its still up..

https://info.cern.ch/

Im wondering what else, very old is out there..fill up the blanks if you have any ideas..  :D
Title: Re: ..first(oldest) web site..
Post by: Matty on Aug 01, 2025, 01:07 AM
I saw that link on a YouTube video a while ago about really old webpages.

There's a handful of really old webpages that are still around that come from the earliest days of the public internet.  (I say public because there was the old BBS sites years and years before then that weren't as obviously accessible to people).

In my Conflict 3049 game I have a short video Easter Egg that can play if the right conditions are met in the Space Battle window in the corner of the screen during gameplay that's also from the really early days of Video Game Memes.
Title: Re: ..first(oldest) web site..
Post by: Naughty Alien on Aug 01, 2025, 04:04 AM
..this one i found interesting as it seems to be a internet big bank zero time moment..interesting to ee it still around.
Title: Re: ..first(oldest) web site..
Post by: Steve Elliott on Aug 01, 2025, 12:39 PM
Not the first web site, but an interesting blast from the past  ;)

Blast (https://web.archive.org/web/20081201175832/http://www.blitzbasic.com/)
Title: Re: ..first(oldest) web site..
Post by: Dabzy on Aug 01, 2025, 04:23 PM
Wow, some old names there on the bb.com site, and I see John Pickford was still posting as well!

Good times! :)

Dabz
Title: Re: ..first(oldest) web site..
Post by: Steve Elliott on Aug 02, 2025, 05:46 PM
Good times indeed!  :D

I'd forgotten how BlitzMax came out on mac first.
Title: Re: ..first(oldest) web site..
Post by: Baggey on Aug 02, 2025, 06:10 PM
Quote from: Steve Elliott on Aug 02, 2025, 05:46 PMGood times indeed!  :D

I'd forgotten how BlitzMax came out on mac first.

Ive been thinking of putting a Hackintosh together! There seems to be a good reason to have a go now with Blitzmax.  ;D
Title: Re: ..first(oldest) web site..
Post by: LineOf7s on Aug 03, 2025, 01:33 PM
A lot of names on the old Blitz website I haven't seen in nearly 25 years or so.  Sigh.

And the same question I always have when this comes up: anyone remember the URL of the Blitz site hosted by Shane R Monroe (author of the BlitzBasic docs back in the day) before Blitz Research hosted their own?  Blitz Basement, maybe?  *heads off to try that*

[edit] Yeah, that was the one.  Sadly, archive.org doesn't have much of the forums there saved.  Oh well.