Evolution of the Web
Experience 35 years of the web in one website
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Evolution of the Web - Experience 35 years of the web in one website

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Remember when websites had visitor counters, guestbooks, blinking GIFs and “Best viewed in Internet Explorer”? Evolution of the Web lets you travel through the internet one era at a time, from the early ’90s all the way to a speculative 2040. Every era changes the design, technology, interactions and culture of the site itself. How many eras of the web do you remember?

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Hey PH 👋 If you like strange internet experiments, I’m on X. I build in public, play with experimental UI, and I’ve launched 20+ products this year — mostly because I keep having ideas I probably shouldn’t turn into real websites. Evolution of the Web is one of those ideas. I kept thinking about how much of the old internet has simply vanished. Visitor counters. Guestbooks. “Best viewed in Internet Explorer.” Flash loaders. Glossy buttons. Skeuomorphic everything. So I tried to rebuild the feeling of watching the web grow up. Not as screenshots. Not as a timeline. The website itself changes. You start in the early ’90s, move through different eras of the web, and eventually end up somewhere around 2040. And there are easter eggs hidden all over the site — old-school references, tiny interactions, and internet relics tucked into different eras. Note: the future gets a little weird. If you’re into this kind of thing, my X is basically an ongoing stream of experiments like this. For everyone who tries it: **What was the first moment that made you think “I remember this”?**