# Ancient Web: WeirdCrap Kept Psycho Dave's 1994 Internet Attic Open WeirdCrap preserves Psycho Dave's abrasive personal-web satire and a dated record stretching back to a workplace homepage begun in 1994. 2026-10-17 :: Switchboard Tech Services ![Ancient Web: WeirdCrap Kept Psycho Dave's 1994 Internet Attic Open](https://switchboardtechservices.com/static/images/defaults/articles.webp) Part of the [Ancient Web Collection](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-collection/). An employer gave its workers personal web pages in 1994. One employee filled his with material sufficiently obnoxious that management apparently reconsidered the generosity. [Visit WeirdCrap](https://www.weirdcrap.com/). That is Psycho Dave's account of the origin of what became WeirdCrap, formerly *Psycho Dave's Dark and Scary Place*. In the surviving [site explanation](https://www.weirdcrap.com/dave/disclaim.htm), he says his company told him to take his early gallery of gross-outs private, and that he spent subsequent years moving the collection between hosts. The present site calls itself a gateway to weirdness, still proudly uninterested in appearing respectable. Its homepage offers direct links to messages, strange links, religious satire, rants and other curiosities. The typography and table-like arrangement are less important than the editorial habit: one person decided what was ridiculous on the Internet and organized it accordingly. ## The webmaster left the moving receipts The [What's New archive](https://www.weirdcrap.com/newcrap.htm) preserves the history more clearly than a polished About page could. A February 2001 entry complains that a change from [Flash.net](http://Flash.net) to Prodigy had left the author unable to update by FTP, and that customer support failed to help. The same archive recalls moving forum conversations onto his own site after an outside message-board service shut down. On March 15, 2001, he celebrated establishing new message forums. In May he added a section devoted to television preacher Robert Tilton, plus links to parodies of Jack Chick-style tracts. The surrounding link annotations wander through religious controversies, political extremism, Internet pranksters and websites now long gone. Some material includes ugly stereotypes, slurs, graphic imagery and deliberate provocation. The archive is worth reading as evidence of a particular online sensibility, not as a guide to its views or an endorsement of its targets. A 2011 note records yet another host migration and says the owner was largely cleaning up broken HTML rather than producing new material. That is the aging-Web problem in one sentence: the jokes survive, but the server arrangements keep expiring. WeirdCrap is not an encyclopedic history of the Internet. It is something more idiosyncratic—an original participant's notebook of grudges, jokes, links and hosting disasters, left in place long enough to become a record. [Read the dated WeirdCrap update archive](https://www.weirdcrap.com/newcrap.htm). Part of the [Ancient Web Collection](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-collection/). - Categories: [Ancient Web](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/categories/ancient-web/) - Tags: [#ancientweb](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/tags/ancientweb/), [#personalweb](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/tags/personalweb/), [#internetculture](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/tags/internetculture/), [#satire](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/tags/satire/) [Articles RSS](https://switchboardtechservices.com/feeds/articles.xml "Subscribe using an RSS reader") --- Canonical URL: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-weirdcrap-kept-psycho-daves-1994-internet-attic-open/ Language: en-us Content type: article Author: Switchboard Tech Services Published: 2026-10-17T12:35:29+00:00 Modified: 2026-10-18T21:05:02.669377+00:00 Description: A look inside WeirdCrap's handmade link lists, irreverent cartoons, webmaster grievances, and early-Internet survival story.