Tim Brown
Tim Brown is the owner of Hook Agency, an SEO and Web Design company focused primarily on driving traffic and leads for small businesses, roofers and construction companies.
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This article was originally published in 2014, and was recently updated – when I was trying to find amazingly bad websites that I remember from my youth!
- When I say they’re bad – I also mean I kind of love them.
- I also found 5 websites from today that have that nineties aesthetic.
- Some are taking that old style – and making it cool.
Before we get into one’s from current day – let’s look at these terribly websites that I “ironically” love.
First – Amazingly Bad Websites from The Nineties
Yes these websites really existed – and some of them are still functioning today. Thank you Warner Brothers! LOL.
The Space Jam website
Well, this one is an honorary and terrible first entry. This website has all the perks, crazy bright colors, a movie topic that kicks up the nostalgia, and some flashing gifs. If that isn’t a …. gift, I don’t know what is.
The World’s Worst Website
This website is purposefully bad. Welcome to the worst possible website on purpose, and if you click on the link, turn down your sound because the music plays automatically.
DP Graph
Dynamic Photorealistic 3D Graphing Software
for Math and Physics Visualization
The horror of spinning, flashing, fluorescent everything.
Ali Web
The first search engine in all of it’s delightful ‘pre-historic’ tackiness
Cyber Beach
This is not only one of the oldest privately held websites still on the web, it also gives you a little backstory as well. Learn about the 90’s on the web if you need a little info to jog your memory.
Home Improvement Fan Club
Well this is one that I have to link through on “The Wayback Machine” at archive.org – Which is an amazing resource that allows you to view web pages in all of their awful glory back in the day. I’m not here to bash these websites, I remember how fun it was creating a website when I was 11… at the library before I’d go home and watch Home Improvement. The nostalgia factor here is pretty thick. Wow… Take a look at these images.
More Power – The Home Improvement Fan Club
I think my next web design project for fun could entail creating a weird throwback to when the web was really a wild west of strange spinning gifs, horrifyingly bright clashing colors, tons of pixelation, and whatever you could get away with, with the very limited parameters the web could process back then. Any suggestions for what it could be about?
Bad Websites From Today – Shitty / Terrible That Are More Current
The art of the shitty website takes more than just a hacky coding skill-set and a bad eye for design. It requires an understanding of what beautiful design is so you can spit in the face of that.
Here are 5 amazingly bad websites from today – that appear to be – please god please be on purpose.
1. Fresh Meat – Ad Agency Mother in NYC’s 2015 Internship site
This gloriously bad site was clearly done on purpose, and I can’t help but marvel at it’s exquisitely painful vibe. Meat comes at you from all angles, people are covered in syrup and spinning gifs attack your eyes.
Here’s a full rundown of the hideousness that was meatmeatmother.com
2. LINGsCARS.com
This has to be on purpose. It definitely hurts to look at, the twirling whiz-bang gifs everywhere on the page are a throw-back to all that was horrible about late 90’s websites, Angelfire, Geo-cities, etc. Do you remember that? The chicken walking along the twitter feed is obviously very important to the user experience on this site.
3. Jodi
This website really makes no sense, but it’s raw code feel and what seems like the schematics for some type of technological atrocity make it entertaining to poke around. Why did someone make this? I have no idea.
View it in all of it’s glorious pointelessness at wwwwwwwww.jodi.org
4.The Boohbah Zone
Yes this one might not have been technically ‘bad on purpose’ but it does seem to be ‘ridiculous on purpose’, and for that I am grateful. The creator of the Teletubbies series made this when it appears he felt teletubbies was too dry and logical.
The best bubble to press is the second from the left in my humble opinion. Enjoy.
View a ressurrected version of ‘Boohbah Zone’ at danryckert.eu
5. Medijate
Probably my favorite ‘bad on purpose’ website that I found besides mother’s internship purely because I’m a fan of the psychedelic and this one surely seems to have required some experience with psychedelics to be capable of making it.
From what I’ve gathered the site is for meditation, except you’re suppose to meditate on all that is painful in the world. The visuals are pure hell-bliss, and for that reason if you poke around one of these sites, I’d highly suggest this one.
Check out the site at Medijate.com
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Tim Brown
Tim Brown is the owner of Hook Agency, an SEO and Web Design company focused primarily on driving traffic and leads for small businesses, roofers and construction companies.
