September 26th, 2014

Websites that have been going for at least 15 years: Metafilter, Craigslist, Internet Archive, LiveJournal, Kottke …what else?

I vote for fray.com

@adactio space jam!

@adactio IMDB

@adactio www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie…

@adactio Amazon

@adactio Slashdot?

@adactio Marriott.com . http://www.marriott.com/default.mi

@adactio zeldman.com, scripting.com spring to mind. http://www.zeldman.com/ http://scripting.com/

@adactio spielgel.de

@adactio newscientist, egi.

@adactio classmates.com, Vampirefreaks.com, eBay (as AuctionWeb) http://www.classmates.com/ http://Vampirefreaks.com/

@livlab @adactio about dot com

@adactio snopes, IMDb, download.com http://download.cnet.com/

@adactio zombo.com :) http://zombo.com/

@adactio IMDB. Wikipedia (ok, 13, not 15). Pitchfork.com (since 1995!). http://Pitchfork.com/

@adactio Amazon, Google, Wikipedia?

@adactio Zombo.com? http://Zombo.com/

@adactio example.com :)

@adactio IMDB, Rotten.com, cant think of any more off the top of my head. :9 http://Rotten.com/

@adactio most universities?

@adactio Yahoo. Dmoz.

@adactio Google, Yahoo!, *.ac.uk, *.edu, dmoz, Microsoft, Apple…

@adactio Astronomy Picture of the Day (@apod) has been going 19+ years with nearly the same dodgy HTML as back in 1995 ;)

@fhemberger @adactio s/spielgel/spiegel/ I’d guess. (spielgel.de is rather strange.)

@m_strehl You’re right, sorry for that /cc @adactio

@adactio westciv.com ;-) http://westciv.com/

@adactio W3.org. Any specific reasons for the question? http://www.w3.org/

@jonoabroad oh thanks for reminding me of SGML & science jobs disks being biked around. Thankfully desk beers have arrived /cc @adactio

@d6y @adactio desk beers already!

.@adactio en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listofl… ?

@adactio PPK’s QuirksMode has been there for quite a while too.

@johnallsopp @adactio Not proud internet moments, but: fark.com and getting close, the 11-yr old 4chan.org

@jonoabroad @adactio I didn’t say I was drinking them. The thought alone is soothing :-)

@adactio damn, 14 years for Opera.com web.archive.org/web/2000030119… http://www.opera.com/

@adactio IMDB. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_…

@d6y @jonoabroad @adactio follow the sun drinking.

@adactio has @gruber or @hotdogsladies had sites up that long? I know @zeldman has…

@adactio Amazon?

@adactio I’m not in that league, but I’ve had polytechnic.co.uk since mid 1999. http://polytechnic.co.uk/

@adactio theforce.net (1997) http://theforce.net/

@beep @adactio Amazon.com and ebay.com but those are obvious ones. Also 4chan is close with 12 years already. http://www.ebay.com

@beep @adactio emule-project.net http://www.emule-project.net/home/perl/general.cgi?l=1

@adactio Do you mean sites that are still actively updated/maintained today, or are merely still available?

@meyerweb @adactio Like meyerweb.com ;) http://meyerweb.com/

@brucel @adactio I make it just over 15 years :) who.is/whois/opera.com

@adactio MSN maybe?

@richtibbett ooh, didn’t think to check there! @adactio

@adactio 15+ for @Newfangled_web

@adactio 20ys ago, @codepo8 was working on bmw.de while I was working on bmw.com http://www.bmw.com/com/en/

@adactio the @w3c website, as @m_strehl pointed out earlier was registered 20 years ago, on July 05, 1994. w3.org #w3c20 http://www.w3.org/

@adactio yahoo, network solutions, a heap of news sites (ABC & BBC I’m almost sure)

@adactio ESPN.com http://espn.go.com/

@adactio MTV.com, info.cern.ch, Yahoo.com… more in my @90sweb feed. http://www.mtv.com/ http://info.cern.ch/ https://www.yahoo.com/

@adactio mozilla.org ! CC @firefox https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/

@adactio More close to 20 yrs old: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listofw…

ICYMI “@beep: @adactio IMDB. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_…”

@adactio fark.com http://www.fark.com/

@adactio Until 2009 that was symbolics.com. Registered in 1985 but sold in 2009. http://symbolics.com/

@meyerweb @adactio www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie…

@adactio Slashdot, Anandtech and Tom’s Hardware also comes to mind.

@adactio vanguard.com https://investor.vanguard.com/corporate-portal/

@adactio Slashdot

@adactio Tripod.com http://www.tripod.lycos.com/

@beep @adactio zombo.com! http://zombo.com/

@adactio FlashKit.com, surprisingly. http://www.flashkit.com/

@adactio the blog & newsletter at creativegood.com , of course http://creativegood.com/

@adactio has The Well been around 15+ yet? Seems like it has.

@vasocreta Oh yeah, The Well actually precedes the web!

@adactio qbn.com, AKA Newstoday http://qbn.com/

@adactio Google. Heck, Gmail’s getting close - started in 2003

@adactio CNET! But not sure if that’s the category you’re looking for.

@adactio Jobetudiant.net :) https://jobetudiant.net/

@adactio I vote for fray.com http://fray.com/

@adactio Amazon, BBC, Yahoo. Not many though!

@adactio styleboost.com was my primary source of inspiration when i started off with webdesign 12 years ago. It’s been up since 2000 http://styleboost.com/

@adactio textfiles.com http://textfiles.com/

@adactio tim.org http://tim.org/

@adactio newfangled.com https://www.newfangled.com/