Old internet websites that are somehow still online
Almost none of the early web survives. Domains lapse, hosts close, and Flash — which carried a decade of the internet’s creativity — was switched off for good at the end of 2020. What remains survives because one person kept paying for it.
These are the survivors: pages built years ago, still on their original domains, still loading without an emulator or an archive viewer. We check them the same way we check everything else — loaded in a real browser, and dropped the moment they stop answering.
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OMFG Dogsomfgdogs.com
Dogs, animated, set to music, running since the era when a page could be one joke and that was enough.
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Cat Bouncecat-bounce.com
Cats falling down your screen. Over a decade old and completely unchanged.
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Staggering Beautystaggeringbeauty.com
A single interaction, no instructions, no explanation. Pure early-web logic.
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Blue Ball Machinetheuselessweb.site
An infinite machine animated frame by frame by strangers on a forum in 2005. A genuine artefact of that internet.
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Nyan Catnyan.cat
The one that became a meme, then a currency, then a permanent fixture.
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Long Doge Challengelongdogechallenge.com
A scroll gag that only works because somebody kept the domain alive.
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Rotating Sandwichesrotatingsandwiches.com
Rotating sandwiches. No further context has ever been provided.
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Wayback Machinearchive.org
The archive itself — the reason anything from this era can still be seen at all.
Open it here →
The honest caveat: this list gets shorter over time and there is nothing anyone can do about it. When we sweep the catalogue and a site has finally gone, it comes out. That is why the ones here are worth visiting now rather than bookmarking for later.
Questions
Are any old internet websites still working?
Yes, though fewer every year. Pages like OMFG Dogs, Cat Bounce and Blue Ball Machine are still on their original domains and still load in a modern browser with no plugin. Anything that depended on Flash stopped working when Adobe disabled it in December 2020.
Where can I see websites that no longer exist?
The Wayback Machine holds snapshots of most of them. It will not run Flash content, but for ordinary HTML pages it is the closest thing to visiting the original.
Every site above was loaded in a real browser and verified working before this was published. See the full catalogue.