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Ancient Web: FishCam Has Been Pointing a Camera at Something Since 1994

FishCam began in 1994 with a camera aimed at a fish tank inside Netscape and survives as one of the web's oldest continuous camera sites, still carrying the logic of the earliest webcam era.

Ancient Web: Netscape's 1994 Welcome Page Still Explains What a Hyperlink Is

A preserved 1994 Mosaic Communications welcome page shows the browser era before basic Web behavior was assumed knowledge, complete with instructions for following hyperlinks, a guided tour, a handbook, and directions for creating Web services.

Ancient Web: The Mozilla Museum Kept Netscape's Green Dinosaur Alive

Tilman Hausherr's Mozilla Museum preserved the original green Netscape mascot and the strange early history behind a name that later became synonymous with an entirely different open-source browser project.

Ancient Web: JWZ's Tent of Doom Fought the Open Office With Camouflage Netting

Jamie Zawinski's Tent of Doom page preserves a 1995 Netscape-era act of cubicle self-defense: wrapping a workspace in camouflage netting and documenting the result on the Web.

Ancient Web: Grafman's VR World Preserves What VRML Looked Like in 1995

Robert M. Free's Grafman's VR World preserves VRML experiments from 1995 through 1997, including animated textures, generated snowmen, avatars, geodesic-dome parts, Netscape Live3D extensions, and early VRML 2.0 work.

Ancient Web: Mark Headrick Kept General MIDI Playing After Netscape Died

Mark Headrick's General MIDI page preserves hundreds of collected MIDI files alongside a running history of browser plug-ins, Windows MIDI plumbing, soundfonts and workarounds from the Netscape era onward.