The card catalogue

Every card in dub³ is a real website from a real year. Here they all are, sorted the way a 1996 web directory would: by collection, then by era. Unlike a 1996 web directory, every link works.

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• Megacorps

  147 cards

  The giants. You've used most of them today.

  • Pioneer (2)
  • Boom (18)
  • Dot-com (22)
  • Web 2.0 (54)
  • Modern (51)

• Cult Classics

  159 cards

  Small, strange and loved to bits by the people who found them.

  • Pioneer (2)
  • Boom (21)
  • Dot-com (45)
  • Web 2.0 (66)
  • Modern (25)

• The Weird Web

  68 cards

  One page, one joke, no reason. The internet at its best.

  • Pioneer (5)
  • Boom (3)
  • Dot-com (8)
  • Web 2.0 (16)
  • Modern (36)

• Net Art

  35 cards

  Websites that are artworks, by people who saw the browser as a canvas.

  • Boom (12)
  • Dot-com (4)
  • Web 2.0 (7)
  • Modern (12)

• Meme Machine

  50 cards

  Where the jokes everyone repeated got started.

  • Boom (5)
  • Dot-com (10)
  • Web 2.0 (24)
  • Modern (11)

• Under Construction

  58 cards

  Homepages, fan shrines and the GIFs that decorated them.

  • Pioneer (1)
  • Boom (14)
  • Dot-com (22)
  • Web 2.0 (15)
  • Modern (6)

• Dead Links

  181 cards

  Gone, but not forgotten. Mostly forgotten.

  • Pioneer (10)
  • Boom (42)
  • Dot-com (47)
  • Web 2.0 (56)
  • Modern (26)

• The Establishment

  476 cards

  Governments, universities, libraries and archives. Very official.

  • Pioneer (24)
  • Boom (74)
  • Dot-com (92)
  • Web 2.0 (142)
  • Modern (144)

• The Long Tail

  2,254 cards

  The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.

  • Pioneer (45)
  • Boom (301)
  • Dot-com (419)
  • Web 2.0 (725)
  • Modern (764)