I have a website that has been up since 1995. I haven’t updated in 20 years or so.
This still exists. It’s Grateful Dead related.
I don’t know how to find any date info on it though, sorry.
Looks like it was registered in 1998.
Webtender - An On-Line Bartender.
The Webtender web site including, but not limited to the collection of recipes, web links and drinking games, as well as graphics and layout, is Copyright © 1995-2025, The Webtender/Pål Løberg unless stated otherwise.
https://www.webtender.com/info/c.html
Not only is it 30 years old, but it has searching built-in since at least 1997, if not the whole time. This puts it in a very special class: first-generation server-side web applications. Looks like it’s still rocking cgi-bin.
Wow! I’ve been using the internet since 1995 and I’ve never heard of this site. Thanks! I’m actually interested in learning about mixing drinks!
For websites I actually use, even if just every once in while:
The website, according to it and wikifur was founded in 1999 ( allegedly September 23rd according to the website ).
If you like things like transformation scenes in media, this is a site for you. Still being updated to this day. Does have some 18+ stuff, but you’ll know right away that it is because they have the thumbnail for that clip tell you it’s “R 18+ RESTRICTED”.
Edit: just found out you need an account to access restricted R 18+ content… So to you’ll be safe enough from that content.
Sluggy Freelance and Schlock Mercenary have both been around a while and both have (or had, when I still had time to read webcomics) stellar reputations for reliability.
I was going to mention User Friendly, but sadly that appears to be down. I think it was last time I checked, too, so I’m guessing it’s a lost cause.
My MySpace page. Has ALL the animated dancing banana GIFs you could ever want.
No idea the year but it’s a band website that still has Web 1.0 vibes
Registered 2002
Gaia Online.
It’s been around since 2003 and it still clings on to its early roots of the internet but with awful modern internet decisions.
It’s surely one of the first sites that I know and use, and it’s still alive. I think it’s from the 90s. (Looked it up again, their earliest visitor count starts at 1997)
Later we have Metal Archives, but I think Lost Souls Domain was the first website where you look for Metal music informations.
No idea why this is the 3rd time this has come up now, but I just learned this year that an anti “barney the dinosaur” webpage is among the oldest still active ones, where you can shoot and stab him.
Hate for children’s media for being… for children has really come a long way. Now we hate them for legitimate reasons, like peppa pig for being bloody monarchists and Bluey for being Australian.
Holy crap! I played with that Barney page for hours back in '95. I had no idea it was still up and running!!
I just played for the first time ever.
Realistic af. Even got the older wounds bleeding
Yahoo.com always comes to mind for these.
Honourable mention:
https://homestarrunner.com/Their last big cartoon came out seven months ago, and it was a big celebration of the idea of going back to playing on individual websites instead of just being fed the same handful of social media crap.
Emulated Flash version on the h*r site - YouTube video version
Homestarrunner.net - “It’s dot com!”
www.crazyguyonabike.com is an old one that is still running.
1994, and still quite active
