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A list of all the "old web" revival services I know of - please help expand it!

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Over the past year or so, I've been signing up for a load of old websites/services that are made to mimic/copy/revive old sites/services that have been drastically changed or shut down. I'll list all of them here, plus some that I know of but don't use. If you have a service that you'd like to add to this list, feel free to reply to this post and I'll add it to the list!
  • escargot.chat - a revival of Microsoft's MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger service. Works with all MSN/WLM clients from 1.0 to 9.0.
  • escargot.live - a revival of Windows Live Spaces and Windows Live Profiles, run by the same team as escargot.chat. It will launch this summer.
  • NINA - a revival of the old AOL Desktop clients. It also hasn't launched yet, and there's no ETA, but rest assured it'll be here someday :D
  • Phoenix - a revival of AOL Instant Messenger. Works with all clients from 1.0 to 6.0, though 6.0 is kinda bugged. Also supports Yahoo! Messenger and ICQ.
  • BitView - one of several classic YouTube clones, and my personal favourite. Replicates YouTube's 2009 design pretty much perfectly.
  • VidLii - another YouTube clone. Doesn't replicate YouTube quite as closely as BitView does, but it supports longer videos and more resolutions/audio bitrates than BitView.
  • FulpTube - yet ANOTHER YouTube clone. Unlike the previous two, it's meant to replicate YouTube from 2012/2013. Seems a bit glitchier than the other two. It also has its own replica of YouTube XL, and a mobile site.
  • SpaceHey - The site you're on right now. A MySpace replica.
  • NeoCities - a clone of Yahoo! GeoCities. Lets you host your own website, for free (with extra privileges for donators)!
  • oldgoogle - a clone of Google Search, with replicas of pretty much every redesign that Google has gone through, from 1998 to 2014.
  • oldyahoo - a clone of Yahoo! Search. Exactly the same as above, but for Yahoo! instead.
  • Bwitter - a clone of Twitter from 2007. Warning - this site doesn't support HTTPS, so you might want to use a different password from your other accounts.
  • Goodblox (RIP) - a revival of several old Roblox clients. Currently shut down :( It may come back later, but considering how long it's been "temporarily" closed, don't count on it...
  • rverse - a Miiverse revival, compatible with Wii U and 3DS. Doesn't have its own website, so I've provided a link to their Discord server. If the invite stops working, tell me and I'll update the post with a fresh invite link.
  • RiiConnect24 - a revival for pretty much every single WiiConnect24-dependent Wii channel, such as the Check Mii Out Channel, the Weather Channel, the News Channel, and the Everybody Votes Channel.
  • Sudomemo - a revival for Flipnote Hatena, the animation/art-sharing service for the Nintendo DS app Flipnote Studio.
  • Wiimmfi - a revival of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service. Similar to RiiConnect24, but for multiplayer games instead of just Wii channels.
  • Flashpoint - not sure if this quite fits the description of an "old web" revival service, but I'll include it anyway. Flashpoint is a MASSIVE archive for online games using plugins like Adobe Flash, Silverlight, and even really obscure ones like the PopCap Plugin and ActiveX Controls.
  • ruffle.rs - an Adobe Flash emulator, similar to Flashpoint. Unlike Flashpoint, it is available as a browser extension too.
...and that's all for now! Please don't hesitate to post your own additions to the list here. Have a lovely day, everyone! :D


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Reply by Positron832

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ruffle.rs: a flash emulator. Available as a browser extension too which is pretty cool.


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Reply by failsandwich

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thanks, added it to the list


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Reply by Jester

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this is such a cool list, thanks so much for sharing it !!!


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Reply by 𝕭𝕬𝕯𝖒𝟎𝖓⚔️💿

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man bwitter is such a trip! i joined twitter in 2008 so i remember when it looked like that
someone should make an old instagram clone


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Reply by Ðꧧï©åtêÐ ©ø®þ§ê

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Thanks for this list.


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Reply by Dark Harbinger of the Abyss

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Thanks for the list.


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Reply by PizzaSqueeze

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Just to let you know rverse isn't currently compatible with the Wii U


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Reply by RisenFromDarkness4867

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I saw another old Twitter clone site called screech.xyz three years ago. Created by someone on Twitter. It was really good. Unfortunately the person lost interest and abandon the project through. The domain is for sale. 


Here's what it was like. https://web.archive.org/web/20190108201156/https://screech.xyz/

The source code is on Gitlab for anyone that wants to try to bring it back.


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Reply by NathanDarkson984

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Not gonna lie, I actually like this!!

>VidLii, BitView

hahah...about that...I had histories on that site before lol


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Reply by J4YC33

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Why does the Phoenix website feature an Infowars scroll?... :barf:


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Reply by sara!

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thx for sharing this list!! soooo cool!!


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Reply by h1vltg3

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this list is awesome! thanks so much for sharing this <3


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Reply by Don

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Add "Graphictoria" please:

Graphictoria is also an old ROBLOX revival. There's no ROBLOX client as of now so you can't play games but they released Graphictoria Studio so you can make games. The website is also pretty alive and the forum is also alive. Soon they will release a client so everybody can play games with each other.

P.S. anybody viewing this can add me on AIM Phoenix if they want to.. My screen name is increment


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Reply by Sarah Anne

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I kinda doubt OP is keeping this active, but here are some more!!


Toontown Rewritten -- Fan revival of ToonTown, the old Disney MMORPG.
Dreamwidth StudiosInsaneJournalDeadJournal.comScribbld -- All websites running on the old LiveJournal codebase.
Old School RuneScape  -- Classic RuneScape is still maintained by the official creators! 
Syle Dollz -- DollzMania remake.


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Reply by Snooper 🐨

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I'm not really one to self-promote, but I actually own and actively maintain a web-directory that has quite a few sites like this listed if you want to have a look at it. It's not much of an "old-web" service, but I have been told that it has that sorta oldschool vibe to it from what people have told me in emails these last couple of years. You can find it here if you're interested: https://peelopaalu.neocities.org/

I'd go through the directory myself and cherry-pick links that best fit the topic of your thread, but I have north of 1,000 uncategorised sites listed at this stage, and I honestly wouldn't really know where to start in picking out specific things. There's all sorts of weird, interesting, and otherwise obscure things on there. Maybe it'd be a good starting point in finding more stuff to post ITT? I dunno. Hope it comes in handy either way.


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Reply by R4PT0R

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Wayback Machine - A website that let you check the old look of modern websites, also working with defunct ones


http://web.archive.org/


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Reply by Melrose

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Looks like Phoenix is down, or the url is incorrect. Wanted to check it out and boop, got the website may be down notification.


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Reply by citron_lamington

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this might be a little late- vistaserv! cute early internet-style websites with a little webring ^ ^


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Reply by Rave Crocker

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theres also friendproject which is another myspace clone


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Reply by dotexe

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http://frogfind.com/ - Basic HTML search engine
http://www.oldavista.com/ - Search engine, returns personal websites from a specific era
https://wiby.me/ - Search engine which returns user-submitted sites that use only basic HTML & CSS
http://frogrss.kutik.sk/ - RSS aggregator
http://68k.news/ - Google news proxy that uses basic HTML
http://theoldnet.com/get?decode=false&scripts=false&year=current&url=http://en.wikipedia.org - Wikipedia proxy
http://macintoshgarden.org/ - Old mac software & games, with a message-board for related topics
http://system7today.com/ - Mac System 7 related site
http://macos9lives.com/ - Mac OS 9 related site & forum
http://www.nextcomputers.org/ - NeXT computers related site
http://irixnet.org/classic/ - SGI/IRIX related site with software downloads, hardware information, etc
https://based.cooking/ - Old web-style cooking site
http://powerbook.micahgartman.com/ - Mac PowerBook information & resource archive
http://www.applefool.com/se30/ - Classic mac networking
http://mac-classic.com/ - Mac-Classic
http://www.rhapsodyos.org/home.html - Apple Rhapsody (early OS X prototype) resource page
http://www.sgistuff.net/index.html - More SGI stuff
http://retro.remotecpu.com/index.php - Hosts lots of DOS, Win9x, etc software for retro machines
http://www.starringthecomputer.com/ - Shows appearances of various computers in films, TV, etc
http://cyber.dabamos.de/ - An archive of lots of nostalgic things from early internet such as 88x31 GIF badges, images, blogs, etc
http://www.cornica.org/ - QuickTime movie sharing site
http://home.macintosh.garden/~reflash/site/home.html - Flash content sharing site
https://ytprivate.com/feed/popular - Basic HTML YouTube frontend
http://home.macintosh.garden/index.html - Macintosh Garden web hosting
http://images.macintosh.garden/ - Macintosh Garden image hosting
http://theoldnet.com/ - The Old Net, contains a WayBack Machine frontend for old browsers/machines, chat room, BBS, and a bunch of other things

All of these were pulled from the MacRumors Web 1.1 thread FYI


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Reply by River Syn

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Thank you for posting this T_T I heckin missed aol and msn 


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Reply by aech

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hey op! fulptube's domain no longer is open.


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Reply by Jas'

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Massive kudos! This is so rad!


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Reply by Spencer

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Thanks for the list, this is awesome! My homepage is now Google from 2009, lol


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Reply by ⛧Max iz Dead⛧

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https://www.my00stv.com/   2000's commercials 

https://winxp.vercel.app/      window's XP emulator 
https://en.picmix.com/          basically blingee 


thats all the ones i have, tysm for this list!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Reply by baliebox4916

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heres my list

voobly a revival of the old msn gaming zone

a revival of the snes and genesis/mega drive xband services

a Revival of the Old WebTV Servers from the Late 90s

a Reboot of the Old Mplayer Service Which Preceded Gamespy

A Replica of the Old Dreamcast SegaNet Servers From 1998-2002

A Remake of Playstation Home

DNAS Forever

gate1.jp.dnas.playstation.org (japanese/asian server) 149.56.101.45
gate1.eu.dnas.playstation.org (european/british server) 167.114.40.4
gate1.us.dnas.playstation.org (american/canadian server) 167.114.40.5

a Remake of the PS2 Online Servers (Just use your ps2s network setup and enter the ip address into the dns of the region of your choice of games (just like you would with riiconnect24, dreampipe and sudomemo/flipnote)

A Remake of the SEGA Heat(dot)net Game 10SIX (Paid Membership Required)

Private Server for PS3

Insignia: Xbox Live Original Xbox Private Server (WIP/Coming Soon)

you can also get a pager/beepers through

http://www.pagenet.ca

Heres some other remakes that are not quite internet related but you guys should still check out

FM 101 The Planet

A Revival of the Sister Station to the Original Energy 108 From Southren Ontario (More Specifically the Niagara Falls Sister Station to Hamilton Ontarios Own Rave Station that Lasted from 1993-2002)

Nostalgyia

A Station thats an Omage to Solviet Era TV (Possibly On Hold Due to the War in Ukraine)

and you can use analog tv through ham radio and analog brick phones through a 4g/5g to AMPS and TDMA Converter for PC and Android (If They Made One!!!)

even though these sites dont exist anymore

the public will always bring it back somehow

cause like they always say

everything on the internet stays on the internet


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Reply by gaz ☆

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I recently discovered search.marginalia.nu, good search engine for finding old HTML/text based websites!


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Reply by FR_thinker

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fulptube will now redirect to this page: http://ww25.fulptube.rocks/?subid1=20220226-0513-0347-990c-b37c2c840259


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Reply by Yun

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Thanks <3 


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Reply by marpels

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i think fluptube has been discontinued


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Reply by GEAR

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Oh yeah, i know these!
Especially GOODBLOX....
It wasn't great honestly


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Reply by 2009

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i might check some of these out in the future!


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Reply by Berii

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I feel sm nostalgia waw tysm!!!!!!


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Reply by anoncarrot

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https://omsgr.com/
Like escargot, but with only 1 client (7.5)


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Reply by Axis

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Not complete sure these count but these are some get around links, they help for students to do things similare to the blocked links.

https://iteroni.com/search?q=   The search portion is the only one I can get to, its a copy of youtube but not as flashy.  I have to write down the links to different videos and cicle thorugh to get on to it, this help aviod it getting blocked.
ao3 is another thing this but I wont link it bc of the risk of loosing yet another link.

For those in school, here's a tip or two:  DON'T SEND LINKS IN SCHOOL EMAILS.  They can read your emails easily and blocks links sent through, if its necessary, email the person but add something about how it helps w/ school!  


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Reply by Hamed M.

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Billions of Thank you, you don't know how hard i was trying to get the old google back, i tried everything i knew, from changing logos and trying alt websites, but this one is the best.


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Reply by lego

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holy crap this is a goldmine


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Reply by Didrick

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I know Bwitter has been mentioned earlier, being a clone of early Twitter but an even better clone that resembles Twitter from that same time period is Blips (blips.club) which I have grown fond of using lately. I'm a member of both Bwitter and Blips but I find the latter to be more customizable and it's also easier to keep an order of things there. You can also change your name and see your followers list on there. Definitely recommended!


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Reply by Squid Died

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buzzly.art is similar to how old Deviantart used to be before its stupid eclipse update. recently its been through some drama with the horrible mod team. but it does exist


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Reply by GRIFFEN

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awesome post! gimme more!


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Reply by GRIFFEN

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I have one actually!

https://oltwitter.rchaves.app/

It's old twitter but it works with your actual twitter account (so it's better)


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Reply by Bombo

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lol someone should make a project of 2004 facebook


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Reply by Bombo

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can u gimmie a few examples or could i see em?


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Reply by Tails

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i got 2 revivals


Re-AltaVista > a revival that revives altavista made by me @ faithful.neocities.org

Re-AOL > a project that revives aol 3.0 @ reaol.org


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Reply by ariel lee ♥

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for those of us who used to use Piczo, someone has developed a similar site, https://mmm.page/


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Reply by fixedfury

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you forgot cyberspaceandtime.com and tracle.tv and the chrome extension youtube redux which makes youtube look old again. and idk if this counts but the wayback machine??


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Reply by not currently using spacehey

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  • cohost.org
  • https://emreed.net/LowTech_Directory.html
sweden-specific social medias:
  • dobedo.online - remake/clone of DoBeDo
  • skunk.cc - remake/clone of Skunk


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Reply by Bombo

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update I found a new thefacebook 2004 revival called theretrobook.net


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