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Ancient Web: Whitehouse.gov1.info Built a Fake Presidential Missile Launch Console

The parody site whitehouse.gov1.info mimicked official-government presentation and built a deliberately fake presidential missile-launch interface complete with bogus codes, target selection, status messages, and repeated disclaimers that none of it was real.

Ancient Web: The Totally Awesome Homepage Was Bad Web Design on Purpose

J. Geoff Malta's 1997 parody homepage deliberately stuffed itself with the design habits of the early Web—and then preserved years of emails from visitors who missed the joke.

Ancient Web: WeirdCrap Preserved the Web's Chick Tract Parody Scene

WeirdCrap's old Chick-tract section preserves a peculiar corner of early Web parody culture built around remixed versions of Jack Chick's tiny religious comics.

Ancient Web: Bagdad, Arkansas Is a Straight-Faced Fake Tourism Site

BagdadArkansas.org presents a suspiciously polished chamber-of-commerce guide to hotels, restaurants, memorials, a casino, and Crazy Andy's Cow Petting Zoo and Burger Store. The joke is that it almost plays the whole thing straight.

Ancient Web: The Malt-Whisky Experts Consortium Built a Fake-Secret Clubhouse

MXC.ch styled a small personal site as the confidential headquarters of the Malt-Whisky Experts Consortium, complete with fake secrecy, Vauxhall Cross flavor, free-SMS tools, and wonderfully unserious corporate language.

Ancient Web: Syd Lexia Ranked 100 Virtual Boy Games When There Were Barely 20

Syd Lexia's 2010 Top 100 Virtual Boy Games list is an elaborate April Fools parody built around a console whose entire commercial library was nowhere near 100 games.