Old Web Ads - 2/14/2025
Recently discovered these archives of old web ads, hosted both on Nekoweb and The Everyone Site. Very cool to see!!
This kinda ties back to what I mentioned in my last post, dollar store vernacular. I loveeee this kind of stuff!! I used to see a lot of these kinds of ads while websurfing as a little kid. A lot of that kind of stuff was on Neopets, I think it still is tbh
Will likely be using a lot of these for art, advertisements and consumerism are a big thing I like to play around with for art, so this was a cool find!!
You can access the Nekoweb archive here and the Everyone Site collection here!!
Im going on the hunt for "ugly" websites because I want to do a post about individualism on the web. I truly believe that corporate design is killing artists. Anyway that's all I got for now, happy websurfing!
Aesthetics Wikipedia - 2/9/2025
OK ok i love aesthetics sm and I use a lot of this shit in my art so lemme just show u guys whats up.
- Frutiger Aero
- The aesthetic of my childhood, arguably, given that all the OS that I used were plagued by it. In a positive sense, of course, I love Frutiger Aero because it reminds me of MY version of old internet!!
- Dollar Store Vernacular
- I actually didn't know this had a name/was considered an aesthetic. I've always been big on old advertisements. I used to watch compilations of ads when I was little, mostly stuff from the 90s and 2000s. Very cool stuff. I do a lot of Crowbar art with this one!
- Webcore
- Webcore is one of my all time favourites. It's been something i've been into since around 2019. I love web-related stuff, and this aesthetic in particular got me into old internet!!! Thank you webcore for turning me into a nostalgiawhore computer nerd!!!!
- Scene
- Personally I'm more into the scene-emo blend in terms of dress, but I think my website can be considered scene!! Not much to say about this one, other than the fact that Neocities turned me on to it, but I love scene culture a lot!!!
Alright that's about all I got for this. As I collect more websites they'll go on here too :3
Wow look at him go...
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