quite exciting places.....
     
home back in the good ol' days of 1994/95 when the web was relatively new to the world, emoticon trawled (at the speeds available then "surfed" would have been very optimistic) the web to find out some of the quite exciting places you could visit in the virtual world.

some of the sites we chose reflected our interests others represented the leading edge of web design of time.

so, where are they now?

     
 
Take a chance
  play some URL roulette still available - still offering the chance to see the sublime and the riduclous, you just don't know until you get there.
  Glen Davis' Cool site of the Day a legend in it's own lifetime. In the early days featuring here was real acclaim. still there, a lot slicker, supported by ads... and the sites just don't seem as cool these days - I'm just getting old I guess.
     
A little bit of culture
  Vatican Exhibition one of the first virtual tours. very simple by today's standards but so much.
  ANU Art History Exhibit no longer of this world, it seems.
  Le WebLouvre it's moved, it's here.
  Virtual Art Gallery not at home.
  Access Art's Web and neither is this one.
     
On Line Magazines
  Wired the original
  Internet Magazine  
  futureNet very big, very professional.
  infoHIGHWAY not even a cobble street.
  Private Eye not there, but it's allegedly here.
     
Weird, weird, weird
  The Web's Edge still ont he edge, still with its hot and cool sites list and reviews.
  Links to the Underground not even this link links, so to speak.
  Hot! Hot! Hot! chilli peppers on line- a burning sensation back then back then, unfortunately it seems to have had a bad case of indigestion.
  Cybersight well the text's there but where are the pics?
  Captain Kirk Sings is this still there? - I couldn't bring myself to check.
  The Visible Human not very visible
  The Dead People Server famous people continue to die so ther is still a need for this one
  Gross & Disgusting Jokes LaughWEB is no more. 1995 -1998. RIP
     
Sport
  The World Wide Web of Sports "a good starting point - link to nearly anywhere from here...or so it seems" - doesn't seem so today
  London Surf Club looking for waves on the Thames? go here.
  Swansea Surf Page still shooting the curl
  Association Football kicked into touch.
  Premiership Info no info.
  Strange Stories sastrange, I thought I saw it yesterday
     
A night at the movies
  The Cardiff Movie Database no longer at Cardiff Universtiy but it's still the premier movie database under its new name of The Internet Movie Database, part of Amazon. Check out its facinating history.
  The Oscars now it's mr showbiz, but that's what it always was.
  Star Wars history
  Batman Forever not forever it seems
  Alien obviously too scarry.
  James Bond diamonds aren't forever either.
  2001 a year to go and its gone already.
     
Virtual towns, bars and coffee shops
  Virtual Town not so virtual now.
  Pauls Beer Page no answer.
  World Builder Make your own virtual planet..lucky you didn't live on it, it must have been demolished for an interglactic highway.
  THE Cambridge Coffee Pot Yes, you can still check to see if the coffee's hot.
  Over The Coffee no good crying over spilt milk.
     
Music on the web
  The Beatles no longer a walrus, it now lives in pepperland
  The Shamen's Web Server a shame, it's not with us anylonger
  The Rolling Stones well, we got some satisfaction
  MusicBase not the base of anything any longer
  Mammoth Records big and wooly and still there.
  Grand Royal Records not very grand at this address.
  Internet Music Underground not so far underground. lots of genre.
  Warner Bros - Madonna, Clapton et al this is the above?
  R.E.M. Unofficial Site not even unofficial now.
  Unofficial Kate Bush hello? is anybody home?
  Virtual Radio one of the first, still broadcasting.
  Pink Floyd not in the pink.
  Hawkwind run out of puff.
  Prince now it's iuma (see above)
  UK Dance Reviews reviewing nothing.
     
We didn't have a specific section for these
  Natural History Museum pay a visit, it's there, and it's still good.
  The best way to find British resources. the original and still the best! - well we would say that wouldn't we? ;-)
  The Star Trek Voyager Experience very advanced at the time, quicktime files and all that. however, the doctor's not in anymore.
  The Net Anagram Server slither let, bed serve oh i mutt