Every plate, A to Z31 total

• <marquee> & <blink> Construction
  One is in the standard today. The other is a 404. It was not about merit
• The 88x31 button Decoration
  GeoCities, 1997, an ad unit that became a friendship token
• Adoptables & pixel pets Decoration
  Neopets petpage, 2001
• The blinkie Decoration
  150 by 20, three colors, two frames. Shelved by color, never by subject
• The blogroll Discovery
  Movable Type, 2003, a feed you curated yourself
• The custom cursor Decoration
  Windows 98, 2001. A page could take your pointer, and usually should not have
• The death of Flash Extinction
  What ended on 31 December 2020
• The directory Discovery
  Yahoo!, 1996. 33 headings on one page, 13 of them shortcuts out of it
• The first website Ancestors
  NeXTSTEP, 1990. The browser that could also edit every page it showed you
• The forum & the BBS Conversation
  ANSI terminal, reputation as a visible number
• The frameset Construction
  1996. Persistent navigation, and no address for the page you are on
• The GeoCities deletion Extinction
  Real pages, recovered and held here. Then you keep five
• The guestbook Conversation
  Perl CGI, 1995. Comments you owned, spliced in at an HTML comment. Sign it, it's real
• The hit counter Discovery
  One number, on your page, that you and every visitor could see at once
• HyperCard Ancestors
  1-bit Macintosh, 1987. The authoring tools were already installed
• The image map Construction
  Navigation as a picture
• Link rot Extinction
  A link is a promise somebody keeps paying for. 38 of every 100 stopped
• MIDI & site music Construction
  A twenty track arrangement in 7.6KB, and your machine played it
• The platform turn Extinction
  How the trade got made
• The revival Extinction
  Where it still lives, and how to go there
• Search before Google Discovery
  AltaVista, 1997. Stuff the keywords yourself and watch the page climb
• Site awards Discovery
  A badge has no bottom. A score out of 100 does, and Lycos evicted it
• The splash page Construction
  Eight real doors, rebuilt. A timer, a threshold you clicked, and a gate that checked you first
• Stamps & fanlistings Decoration
  deviantART, 2006, affiliation before the follow button
• The stats page Conversation
  Somebody’s real 1995 traffic, at a guessable URL, with no login
• The table layout Construction
  microsoft.com, 1998. Sixty spacers, one 44-byte GIF, and a grid that says 602 while rendering 618
• The tagboard Conversation
  A 250 by 200 room in somebody else’s margin. Auto-refresh cost $20 a year
• Teletext & Minitel Ancestors
  Ceefax, 1974. A network with no address bar
• The tiled background Decoration
  Forty-two patterns drawn for this page, 3,586 bytes for all of them
• View source Construction
  No stylesheet, no script. Press Ctrl+U and you can read all of it
• The webring Discovery
  1996. A circle with no index and no owner, routed through one script