#web surfin

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code lyoko site, date unknown. even the archiver who posted this seemed not to know much about it. you can drag the little tab things around, but only one can be open at a time so there’s little point beyond ‘oooh its like a computer’

i wonder what the game and forum were--those tabs dont work anymore for obvious reasons

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Fun Paper Mario trivia which may be stated elsewhere but I don’t know these sorts of things: According to the 2001 website, he has a diary, containing ‘private secrets’. Sadly the contents are lost to time, as far as I’m aware. Not on Wayback, at least. Guess Bowser can keep his secrets :p 

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The Yoshi Web Pet Expedition

Now, this all started during one of my journeys through a Geocities archive--Restorativland’s backup this time, if you’re curious. Oocities is fun, but you can’t see where you’re actually going. Anyways, I came across this.

It led to a Yoshi’s Story website, and after messing about with Wayback, I got to this page. Bingo.

Sadly, they needed an account--but they seem to be interactive in some way? I don’t know how that’d work. Clicking the links gets you nowhere.

I thought I remembered them getting rid of Nsider accounts in the future--but not future enough this’d be gone, I didn’t think. Maybe they somehow lifted the restriction? Wishful thinking, but worth trying. I jumped forward. Hm. Nope. It apparently had that message for MONTHS.

Huh, Pikmin food. Nice. Interesting selection of sites which also apparently had this promotion going on.

Thoroughly distracted by Pikmin, now, I detour from my promised Yoshi. Hopefully this works... I eye that ‘get flash’ message with caution. (Not photographed, but there was a quiz to go with it! The actual interactive quiz is gone, but the underlying file remains. I can’t parse the answers, but the questions are still intact.)

Shockingly, it works! No ‘get flash’ pages, bane of my existence they are.

There were also ‘movies’ for red, yellow and blue Pikmin, along with Olimar, but sadly they show up separately and give a 403 Forbidden error.

I try to see the site in the future, but get redirected to Nintendo and thusly 404′d. Sending me back to the actual point, the Yoshi. 

Sadly, going to the future there has equally disastrous results. You never will get reunited with your Yoshi. Or maybe you do, who knows. But, before I could... I was met with this. God fucking damnit. Mario taunts me with the secrets that lie beyond this screen. Before you ask, the link doesn’t work.

I sigh, unsatisfied. Guess I will have to steal that guy’s Yoshi. But I’ll give them to you, too. Enjoy your Yoshi, as I hope you have enjoyed this little aimless wander through internet history, in search of Yoshis that may never be found. I wish you well doing whatever this animation is meant to be, Yoshis. Even if nobody is around to see it.

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a few ppg icons i grabbed from their old cn website page :) i just think they’re neat, will probs do a deeper dive when im not sleep deprived but i thought people might like these in the meantime

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ddr burger king promotional site, 2006. music is broken but other than that it all works! you can customize a burger king meal in the food tab, and unlock a ddr cheat code in the extras by playing a minigame. pretty neat. 

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great job preserving this one wayback :/

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Oswald: Big Diner Special, 2001

I remember playing this as a kid! :) Never actually seen Oswald, though :p