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Ancient Web: Fluffy's World Was Cool Site of the Day Before That Meant Anything

Fluffy's World is a surviving 1994-1995 art-and-story site that was named Cool Site of the Day in January 1995, when personal creativity and a handful of handmade pages could still make a site feel like a discovery.

Ancient Web: Big Beautiful Backgrounds Preserved the Era When Websites Wore Wallpaper

Big Beautiful Backgrounds survives as a relic of the period when building a homepage often began with choosing a tiny repeating texture, and free graphics directories acted as the design infrastructure of the personal Web.