You can use it to explore the old internet via the Wayback Machine here - don't forget to use the timeline. Alternatively, you can use the more convenient directory archive at Old'avista, scraped from Yahoo's directories in various years, and which links to the Internet Archive by default. Old'avista also has a search engine.
A must for any bored time traveler! You can visit it via the Wayback Machine here. Mouseover buttons to see what they do - the Links section and its subsections' archives are particularly useful.
You can read its many no-longer-on-the-live-web articles via the Wayback Machine here. Remove 'archives.' from a URL if it doesn't work (or work well). Afterward, try using the timeline at the top if there's still problems
Pictured below: http://web.archive.org/web/20060317113635/http://www.progressiveboink.com/archives.htm
Some choice images from some of Mike's articles (Lamb Chop's Special Chanukah, The Red Snifit, The Search For The Admiral Bird, The 100 Greatest Christmas Shows):
You can read its over 6000 free recipes here.
Includes recipes from United States senators, congresspeople and governors.
Historically accurate 1999-era screenshot taken using oldweb.today.
One of many bizarre sequences of events to originate from the Something Awful Forums. The website is backed up here, and the main story itself is here. KnowYourMeme sums it all up here.
You can learn more about Something Awful's history at Crazy Ass Moments in Something Awful History and the I'm From The Internet podcast.
A wacky fictionalized journey into Nickelodeon's first show. You can read it here.
When a writer for notorious comedy website Something Awful got a TV interview on G4's Attack of the Show, the website's owner instructed him to prevent people joining the site as a result by making it seem terrible... and to give the wrong URL, which led to a phony site, which you can view on the Wayback Machine here.
You can watch the interview here, and read a little about its history in a contemporary NeoGAF forum thread here.
You can learn a LOT more about Something Awful from the podcast I'm From the Internet.
You can digitally borrow it here. Fire up the ol' Wayback Machine and take a nostalgic trip through the early history of e-web-commerce on the intersites!
If you're curious about the entry on Mr. Zed (entry 118, page 80), you can watch a ton of episodes of his 1994-2000 TV shows on his official YouTube channel (psst, @skinslip, something tells me you'll like these). He's still at it, too (this video's in Italian while his old TV shows are in English; he's got translation software on his hard drive)!
