~ Early Web Links ~

Modeled after the legendary bash.org, this is a community quote database capturing the funniest and most memorable moments from the tilde.chat IRC network. Visitors can browse, vote on, and submit quotes from the channel, preserving the spontaneous wit and chaos of IRC culture for posterity.

Greg created a playful year-in-review page documenting every restaurant he ordered from via Uber Eats in 2023, presented as a mosaic made from food images alongside his humorously self-aware reflections on food delivery guilt. The writing is candid and charming, touching on late-night cravings, a heartwarming soup-to-Montreal story, and half-sincere resolutions to cook more in 2024.

A morbidly fascinating compilation of news and magazine articles documenting the strange, unusual, and sometimes darkly humorous ways people have met their end. The site blends horror and humor into a curated anthology of bizarre deaths, drawing from newswires, magazines, and research reports.

GEORGE is an absurdist internet collective built around a deliberately nonsensical mythology, presenting surreal proclamations about a mysterious entity called GEORGE with deadpan humor. The site lists community members, links to forums and IRC channels, and presents its joke-statistics and pseudo-corporate copy with a knowing wink to old-web culture.

Created by Alan Levine, this satirical site parodies the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) craze with humor, fake course listings, and tongue-in-cheek commentary on the edtech boom. It features absurdist content like cow metaphors and mock course titles, poking fun at the hype surrounding online education.

The Corporation is a satirical parody site that dresses up internet humor as a corporate enterprise, complete with mock consumer research and deadpan business-speak about delivering 'humor product' to the masses. Created under the Funreal Entertainment banner, it blends absurdist comedy with corporate parody in a style reminiscent of late 1990s web humor.

A scrappy personal links page from the mid-2000s Tripod era, collecting favorite humor and webcomic sites like Toothpaste for Dinner, Natalie Dee, White Ninja Comics, and Ebaumsworld. The page is a snapshot of early internet humor culture, linking to friends' sites alongside random funny corners of the web.

Hoehel is a playful parody of Google built entirely in the West Flemish dialect, serving as a humorous regional search portal for 'het WestVlaams Wide Web.' The site mimics the classic Google homepage interface with search options, language toggles, and navigation links all rendered in the distinctive phonetic spelling of the West Flemish vernacular.

Running since 2005, this site features a live webcam pointed at a suburban lawn so visitors can watch grass literally grow in real time, updated every second. Complete with a bluegrass music player, annual highlight videos, years of blog archives, and media coverage including a nine-page Southwest Airlines magazine spread, it is a lovingly maintained novelty that has attracted millions of visitors.

Kremlin Fried Chicken is a satirical parody of KFC reimagined as a Soviet communist fast food restaurant, complete with a mock manifesto riffing on Marxist rhetoric and puns like 'Brehznever' and 'Trotsky on over.' Created by the comedy group The Van Gogh-Goghs around 1998-2000, it features a fake menu and a tongue-in-cheek 'official history' of the restaurant's glorious proletariat struggle.