1998 internet simulator · old internet experience · 90s internet nostalgia

What if the internet stopped evolving in 1998?

You arrive at a fake desktop. You double-click Connect, hear the modem sing, and land on YOYO!, the portal. From there: one hundred pages of fictional personal homepages, fan sites, small businesses, chat rooms, guestbooks, webrings, shareware mirrors and MIDI-era oddities — plus a mystery hiding underneath it all.

No instructions. No tutorial. Just dial up and wander, the way you did in 1998.

What you will find

• 42 fictional websites, 100 interconnected pages
• Recurring characters who show up where you least expect them
• Working search, favorites, email that reacts to what you do
• Broken links, abandoned homepages, and banner ads for free pizza
• Something strange on the weather network. Probably nothing.

Enter now — free. The old internet is still there.