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 digitally borrow it here, and visit archived versions of the listed websites on the Wayback Machine.
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.
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)!
The experimental universal rewards points/'currency'. Visit backups of the American and British websites (use the bar up top to 'travel through time'), or watch a video about the whole thing.
