~ Early Web Links ~

Julian Rubin's astronomy jokes page blends humor with genuine science education, mixing space puns and astronaut quips with biographical sketches of astronomers like Ptolemy, Galileo, and Kepler. The section is touchingly dedicated to the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia and sits within a broader science humor site that Scientific American once recognized for its educational value.

That Can Be My Next Tweet was a viral web app created by Monokai that generated absurd, often hilarious future tweets based on the linguistic patterns of your existing Twitter messages. This archive page documents the phenomenon, which hit 1 million visitors in its first week and earned coverage from CNN, Time, Gizmodo, Mashable, and more.

RinkWorks is a long-running online entertainment hub by Samuel Stoddard, packed with humor, games, movie reviews, fiction, and oddities like the Fantasy Name Generator and tech support stupidities. With recurring features like Monster Arena tournaments and the Site Market Game, it has the feel of a beloved old-web playground that has kept visitors coming back since 1996.

WG2k's quirky corner of the web hosts 'The Qawsx Quiz,' a nonsensical personality quiz asking visitors to weigh in on absurd choices like banana versus cheeseburger. The minimal but charmingly odd presentation gives it a surreal, joke-forward vibe typical of experimental Neocities personal pages.

Frank West pronounces emoticons for you is a quirky single-page gag site where a character (likely from Dead Rising) vocalizes a long list of classic text emoticons and kaomoji. It's a charming piece of internet absurdity that will delight anyone who grew up communicating in ASCII faces.

YouTuube is a parody site spoofing YouTube, complete with a deadpan joke notice claiming the site was removed for violating terms of service regarding free speech. Still a work in progress, it leans into absurdist old-web humor with a deliberately broken, image-heavy layout.

James Lileks presents a sprawling, irreverent gallery mocking the ghastly food photography and bizarre recipes found in mid-century American cookbooks and promotional pamphlets. Featuring dozens of themed collections with names like 'Meat Fisting At Home' and 'Jell-O Art of the 20s and 30s,' it's a hilarious archaeological dig through the culinary horrors of the 1940s through 1960s.

Roadkills-R-Us is an elaborate satirical 'company' site created by Miles O'Neal, built around the absurdist premise of a roadkill-themed internet nation complete with its own executive, legislative, and judicial branches. Packed with parody news, fake corporate culture, a music section, and a long-running dispute with Toys-R-Us over the '-R-Us' naming convention, this classic old-web oddity is a deep rabbit hole of irreverent humor.

Sleep Talkin' Man is a wildly popular blog by Karen Slavick documenting the bizarre, hilarious, and often profane things her husband Adam says in his sleep. With years of archived late-night ramblings, audio recordings, merchandise, and a devoted fanbase, it became a genuine internet phenomenon.

A sardonic tribute to Ron Paul meme culture, built around the classic 'It's Happening' and 'Doompaul' internet jokes about Ron Paul's dire warnings going unheeded. The site leans hard into the absurdist humor of the Doompaul meme, featuring the iconic imagery and apocalyptic rhetoric that made the meme famous on early 2010s internet boards.