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• 8/31/2026Where the old web still lives, and how to go there. Thirty plates said a platform solved this for you and took it; this one is the door, and every address on it was opened before it was printed.
• 8/31/2026A working feed reader, stocked with this guide. Then try to subscribe to a platform and read what actually comes back: 410 Gone from one, 404 in nine bytes from another, and hundreds of kilobytes of application from the rest.
• 8/30/2026A preloader, a stage that owns the window, a tween, and a right click that hands you the plugin menu instead of the browser’s. Then advance the clock one day past 11 January 2021 and take it all away yourself.
• 8/29/2026Thirteen invisible rectangles over one 1996 GIF, served at its true 423 by 272 because a coordinate is an image pixel. Hunt them blind, then find the one-pixel gutter that belongs to nobody.
• 8/27/2026Eighty columns of a real VGA text screen, painted one row every 55ms because that is what 14,400 bits a second buys. Post once and watch your number go up in the status bar, where everybody could always see it.
• 8/26/2026Discovery by human vouching. Click a name in one weblog’s sidebar and the next one grows underneath it in a different dialect, then read a real 2003 roll where nineteen of its twenty links no longer reach the weblog.
• 8/25/2026Thirteen stamps drawn for this plate at the size the real ones were, 99 by 56, in a font written for them. Claim one, then join a fanlisting and wait while somebody adds you by hand.
• 8/24/2026Twelve real GeoCities creatures, recovered from the Internet Archive and served from here. Adopt one and it goes into the address bar, because that is the entire record: reload and the belly is fifty again.
• 8/23/2026The table layout: every gap on microsoft.com was a picture. Flip one switch and the spacers turn magenta, then drag the 158 pixel strut and watch a corporate home page obey a WIDTH on nothing.
• 8/22/2026Sit in front of AltaVista in 1997 and game it. Edit a page’s META tags, watch it climb, then hit the 1,024 character cap and watch it stop.
• 8/21/2026A shoutbox in the margin of a page about something else. The room talks whether or not you do, and on the free tier you are simply not shown it.
• 8/20/2026Two motion tags from the same war. Run the six-cell autopsy yourself and find that Microsoft’s tag is in the standard and Netscape’s documentation is a 404.
• 8/19/2026People published their traffic on purpose. Open a stranger’s stats directory and run a real 1995 access log through it, counted line by line.
• 8/18/2026A neighborhood of real GeoCities pages, recovered from the Internet Archive and held on this server. Read them, then close it down and keep five.
• 8/17/2026A real counter, the one this guide runs on its own front page, drawn on the 15 by 20 grid the 1996 documentation specifies. Ask it anything and it answers with the one number it has.
• 8/16/2026Forty-two backgrounds, drawn and encoded as real GIF87a, 3,586 bytes for the set. Find the seam somebody hand-tuned away.
• 8/15/2026Eight captured splash pages, rebuilt as doors you can stand in front of. Real hold times, real artwork, and a 1997 sniffer that still thinks you are Netscape.
• 8/14/2026Site music, playing for real. Six public domain pieces, a synth with no samples, and the two copyright layers that keep the rest silent.
• 8/12/2026The first Static site plate. It has no stylesheet and no script, which is the argument.
• 8/11/2026The last drawer opens. Every figure on the link rot plate is verbatim from a named study, and the gaps are left as gaps.
• 8/11/2026Construction opens. Navigate a frameset and watch the address bar refuse to move.
• 8/10/2026Conversation opens. The guestbook is real, you can sign it, and you can take the file with you.
• 8/9/2026Back to Decoration. Every blinkie on the page is generated in your browser, because none of the sampled ones can ship.
• 8/9/2026Judge six sites twice. A badge and a score are not the same compliment.
• 8/7/2026You are the editor now. File the queue by hand and watch the arithmetic beat you.
• 8/7/2026Discovery opens. 48 sites in a ring, and what happens when five of them go dark.
• 8/5/2026First game filed. A page takes your pointer, and 694 cursors to take it with.
• 8/4/2026The link-to-me button was drawn in CSS, so it could not be saved. It is a real GIF now.
• 8/4/2026Wall curated to 200, duplicates found by comparing pixels rather than filenames.
• 8/4/2026Decoration opened. 88x31 filed, with 193 real buttons and a maker that writes a real GIF.
• 8/3/2026Ancestors drawer complete. Teletext filed: pages you caught, not fetched.
• 8/2/2026Filing the Ancestors drawer. Two down.
• 8/2/2026HyperCard filed. The authoring tools used to come in the box.
• 8/1/2026First plate filed: the 1990 browser that was also an editor.
• 8/1/2026Guide opened. Nothing filed yet.