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Web Design Museum

Screenshots and videos of old websites, apps and Flash games.

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The Web Design Museum is a museum for the visual history of the web. It has galleries, exhibitions and a timeline covering the 1990s to the late 2000s, with screenshots and write-ups that show how design trends shifted over time. You can browse by era and watch the web grow from plain pages to something polished and strange.

The pleasure is comparison. Seeing a corporate homepage from one era beside another from a few years later makes the changes in layout, color and fashion very clear. It is a gentle education in design history disguised as a trip down memory lane.

You can also submit tips about old sites if you remember something that belongs in the collection. It is designed for a bigger screen, and it is a rabbit hole. One note: our link checker was blocked by Cloudflare, so we rely on a page fetch to confirm that the content is there.

Tips for getting the most out of it

  • Browse by era and compare.
  • Use a larger screen to see the details.
  • Submit a tip if you remember an old site.

Questions about Web Design Museum

What is the Web Design Museum?

It is an online museum of web design history, with galleries, exhibitions and a timeline covering the 1990s to the late 2000s. You can find it at webdesignmuseum.org, and odd-sites.com lists it as a long rabbit-hole visit. We have not confirmed how it behaves on phones, so a computer is the safer choice.

Can I contribute to the Web Design Museum?

The site invites tips about old websites, according to our research. Check the site for the current way to submit. We check the link daily, so you can see whether it is still alive. It is free to open in a browser, with nothing to install.

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