[GALLERY] Inspecting Michigan’s Most Popular Websites Back In The 90s

Over the holidays, I found myself down a strange rabbit hole: looking for old websites that are still up and running. When I say old websites, I mean websites that are still in their original states from when they were created on the early Internet around the turn of the century.

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For example, the original website to promote the Space Jam movie starring Michael Jordan was created in 1996 and is still around and (mostly) functional. It screams 1990s internet and I am a huge fan. So I thought it would be fun to take a walk down memory lane and peek at what many of the websites Michiganders used looked like back when they started.

To accomplish this feat, we'll be using the internet's very own version of a time machine: The Wayback Machine. The Wayback Machine is a functioning archive of the internet, providing the ability to access/view a website based on how it was on any given date.

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For example, this is how our website, WGRD, looked when it was created in 1996. You can view the entire staff at the time, view the concert calendar for 1996 (Deftones, Stone Temple Pilots, and Metallica were all playing around here at the time), and much more. There's even a page for "Strange Links", which is curious and concerning.

But enough of that. These are websites that you probably accessed while you still needed Dial-up internet to view the page on Windows 96. Good times.

If you have sites you want to see from back in the day, let us know here.