Sometimes they come back for more

I just found the most wondrous thing: the Wayback Machine. It's a website that allows you to see old versions of websites, even back to 1996 in some cases. The internet as I've known it is pretty much 10 years old now! And I started realizing recently that a lot of what I experienced almost a decade ago is completely nonexistent. Angelfire and Geocities webpages, 28.8 Kb/s connection speeds, the Daily Show screensaver with Craig Kilborn dancing, pages where there's some kind of picture that follows your mouse around and all sorts of jarring color combinations, pages that look an awful lot like the one Strong Bad makes here. Live Mike's Garbage Pail Kids Hangout with it's "Thriller" midi playing, and Midi files for that matter. Comedy Central's old site, with these little image file things (called Things, aptly) that would change when you rolled your mouse over them. The way Weird Al's website used to look. I'm in the process of strolling down the Information Memory Lane and it's great. I'll definitely miss the old internet, but it sure is nice to know a lot of it is still out there, somewhere.