Curiouxify is an independent publication exploring the forgotten, experimental, and human side of the internet.
We document unusual websites, internet history, interactive web experiences, browser experiments, digital art, creative coding, web culture, and the ideas that made the internet feel different.
The web wasn’t always dominated by feeds, recommendation algorithms, apps, and endless scrolling.
There was a time when people built personal homepages, joined webrings, created strange Flash websites, maintained webzines, experimented with browser technology, made digital art, and created small online communities simply because they could.
Curiouxify exists to explore that side of the web — and to understand what happened to it.
What Is Curiouxify?
Curiouxify is an independent website dedicated to documenting and exploring interesting corners of internet culture.
We cover things such as:
- Forgotten and unusual websites
- Internet nostalgia and retro web culture
- Personal homepages and early online communities
- Interactive websites and browser experiments
- Creative coding and generative experiences
- Digital and net art
- Flash-era websites and web history
- Experimental and immersive web design
- Webzines, blogs, guestbooks, webrings, and other early web culture
- Modern projects that continue the spirit of the independent web
But Curiouxify isn’t simply a collection of links to “cool websites.”
We want to understand the story behind them.
Who created them?
How did they work?
Why were people interested in them?
What did they represent about the web at the time?
What happened to them?
And why are they still worth remembering?
Why Curiouxify Exists
The internet changes extremely quickly.
Websites disappear.
Domains expire.
Communities move.
Technologies become obsolete.
Design trends disappear.
Entire platforms are shut down.
A website that was once visited by thousands of people can eventually become nothing more than an abandoned domain or an archived page.
That history is easy to lose.
Curiouxify was created to document some of these experiences before they disappear completely.
We believe the history of the web isn’t only made up of major companies and famous platforms.
It is also made up of small websites, personal projects, experiments, communities, artists, developers, designers, and curious people building things simply because the web allowed them to.
That’s the part of internet history we want to explore.
What Makes Curiouxify Different?
There are plenty of websites that collect interesting links.
Curiouxify takes a different approach.
Instead of simply saying:
“Here are some interesting websites.”
we try to explore:
What is this?
How does it work?
Where did it come from?
Why was it interesting?
What did it mean at the time?
And what can we learn from it today?
When possible, we explore websites directly, investigate their history, examine how they were built, and look for reliable sources that can help establish historical details.
The goal is to create articles that are useful even when the original website changes, disappears, or becomes difficult to access.
How We Research
We don’t want Curiouxify to become a collection of rewritten information from around the web.
Our articles are developed through a combination of first-hand exploration, research, and editorial review.
Depending on the subject, our research process can include:
1. Exploring the website
When a website is accessible, we visit and explore it directly.
We look at its interface, interactions, design, content, technology, and overall experience.
2. Investigating its history
For older or forgotten websites, we investigate available historical information and archived versions where possible.
This can help us understand how a website changed over time and what it originally looked or functioned like.
3. Checking available sources
Historical and factual claims are checked against available primary sources, archived material, official information, or reputable secondary sources whenever possible.
When an article depends heavily on historical information, we aim to provide sources or further reading so readers can investigate the subject themselves.
4. Looking beyond the surface
We don’t only look at what a website does.
We also consider its design, technology, interaction model, cultural context, and place in the history of the web.
5. Separating observation from fact
When something is our own observation or interpretation, we try to make that clear.
When something is a historical or factual claim, we aim to support it with evidence where available.
6. Updating when necessary
The web changes.
Websites disappear, return, move domains, change ownership, or become inaccessible.
When important information changes, we may update an article to reflect what we can verify.
Our Editorial Standards
Curiouxify is built around a simple principle:
Interesting content is not enough. It should also be useful, honest, and responsibly presented.
We aim to:
- Identify the author responsible for our articles.
- Research websites before writing about them.
- Avoid presenting speculation as established fact.
- Link to useful sources when appropriate.
- Distinguish our observations from historical claims.
- Avoid copying articles from other publications.
- Add original research, context, analysis, or exploration rather than simply rewriting existing material.
- Update articles when important information becomes outdated.
- Correct mistakes when they are brought to our attention.
We also don’t believe that publishing more articles automatically makes a publication better.
Our goal is not to produce content at scale. Our goal is to build a useful record of the web’s stranger and more interesting corners.
Corrections & Updates
Nobody gets everything right.
Web history can be especially difficult to research because websites disappear, archives can be incomplete, domains change hands, and information about older projects may exist only in scattered sources.
If we discover that an article contains an important factual error, outdated information, or misleading statement, we aim to correct or clarify it.
If you notice something that needs correcting, please contact us and include:
- The article you’re referring to
- The specific information that appears incorrect
- Any source or evidence that can help us verify the correction
We appreciate readers who help improve the accuracy of Curiouxify.
About the Author
Asif BC — Founder & Editor
Curiouxify is created and managed by Asif BC, a web developer with a background in software development and web technologies.
His interest in Curiouxify comes from the intersection of technology, web development, interaction design, internet history, and digital culture.
Rather than looking at websites only as pages of information, he is interested in how they are built and experienced — from the interface and technology behind them to the communities and ideas that formed around them.
His interests include:
- Internet history
- Forgotten websites
- Interactive web experiences
- Browser experiments
- Creative coding
- Digital art
- Experimental web design
- Early web culture
- Independent and personal websites
Through Curiouxify, he researches and documents the unusual, experimental, nostalgic, and often overlooked parts of the web.
Curiouxify is an independent project and is not affiliated with the websites, companies, platforms, or projects discussed unless explicitly stated.
What You’ll Find on Curiouxify
Curiouxify explores several connected areas of web culture.
Internet History
The websites, technologies, communities, and cultural changes that shaped how people experienced the early and evolving web.
Forgotten Websites
Websites and online projects that disappeared from mainstream attention but are still interesting, influential, strange, or worth remembering.
Interactive Web
Websites that go beyond traditional pages through interaction, animation, experimentation, games, simulations, and unusual interfaces.
Browser Experiments
Creative projects that use browsers as a medium for experimentation, including physics experiments, generative experiences, WebGL projects, and unconventional interfaces.
Digital Art & Creative Coding
Projects where code becomes a creative medium — from generative art to experimental visual experiences.
Internet Culture
The communities, aesthetics, trends, formats, and strange little traditions that helped shape online culture.
The Independent Web
Personal websites, small communities, blogs, webzines, handmade websites, and other projects created outside the major platforms.
Our Philosophy
The web is more than the websites that dominate today’s search results and social feeds.
It is also the collection of millions of small experiments created by people who wanted to build something.
Some became influential.
Some became forgotten.
Some were weird.
Some were beautiful.
Some were technically impressive.
Some were simply fun.
They all tell us something about the internet.
Curiouxify is an attempt to collect some of those stories before they disappear.
An Independent Publication
Curiouxify is an independently operated website.
We are not a news organization, technology company, archive institution, or official representative of the websites we write about.
Our purpose is editorial and educational: to explore, research, document, and share interesting parts of internet culture.
Where commercial relationships, sponsorships, affiliate links, or other forms of monetization are present, they should not determine our editorial conclusions.
Our priority is maintaining useful and trustworthy content for readers.
Contact Curiouxify
Found an interesting website?
Know something about an old internet project?
Found an error in one of our articles?
Have additional information, historical material, or a correction that could improve an article?
We’d like to hear from you.
Please use our Contact page to get in touch.
Our Mission
Curiouxify exists to explore, document, and preserve the forgotten, experimental, and human side of the web.
We want to make it easier for people to discover the websites, technologies, ideas, communities, and creative experiments that helped make the internet what it is today.
Because the web isn’t only its biggest platforms.
Sometimes its most interesting stories are hidden in the corners.