r/y2kaesthetic

I really miss what the internet felt like around 2001. The chunky browser chrome, the dial-up patience, sites that looked like someone actually built them by hand.

So I built Reframe, a browser that wraps the modern web in period-correct skins. You can browse in IE5, Netscape, early Safari or Firefox chrome, and there's a Wayback Machine built in, so you can jump straight to how a site actually looked back then instead of just faking it. There's also an optional CRT look on top for the full 15-inch-monitor feeling.

It started as a personal thing, but the more old sites I loaded, the more I remembered stuff I'd completely forgotten about the early web.

Two questions for this crowd:

1. Which website do you most want to see in its 2001 form again?
2. Which browser did you actually use back then: IE, Netscape, or Opera?

(The browser is open source, free, and built on Chromium and for Mac / Windows (cant test windows but i heared it works))

I always have a look at the physical media when I'm thrifting in hopes of finding something really strange, lost, or forgotten, and I think I hit the jackpot.

Originally I left it behind, a few days ago. I could not stop thinking about it and it was still there when I went back today, so home with me it went.

Since it seems to exist nowhere online, I think I'm going to have to find a way to digitize this thing. It's in pristine condition, luckily, just don't have a player right now.

Sherlock Bally is still out there preaching, too!

I hope a few more people can get a kick out of this. Will update!

Update: I am in touch with one of the people who has kindly offered to digitize it for me and will be sending the tape out in the next couple days. Thank you to both of you for the offer!

Hello everypony! I just launched my y2k clothing brand and wanted to see what you guys think of it. Not looking for sales (although if you did take interest into my flare pants then thank you!) just wanting honest opinions

Fakemink's website gives me such early 2000s internet vibes. It's so simple and feels like one of those old personal websites you'd randomly stumble across. I like that it's basically split into just two sections. His lyrics and these stories that are only one sentence. It feels more like browsing someone's notebook than a modern artist's website, and I think that's what makes it so nostalgic.
https://undergroundballroom.co.uk/

Episode 1 was in 2002, Episode 2 was 2004 and Episode 3 was in 2006, Episode 3 is very much a late example.. Y2K Futurism still had a bit of a presence in 06 but obviously not as strong as during it's prime in the late 90s to early 2000s and by then Frutiger Aero was on the rise

I found these jeans at a thrift store; I love the cut and the way they fit. I wish I could find more gems like this at thrift stores.

I bought it on Facebook Marketplace, but I haven't found any information about this model on eBay, Depop, or Grailed. I only know from the tag that it's from the NHK line (the official TV network for Domo-kun). I've seen similar models but not this exact one, which is why I'm curious about it; the AI ​​says it's authentic.

My room when I was 12 years old in 2002 🔥

This style could be called "VectorKandi". It was popular from the 2000s, especially with the music brand Hedkandi but no name has stuck officially. Was always associated with Night Life, Beach Life, Resorts, Tycoon Games. it was distinct by not just having solid colours, but mixing gradients, different opacity on layers and glows in. it has a similar feeling to Y2K futurism where as a kid, it made you excited about the future but for going out to clubs and holidays.

P.S. whenever I see this art it makes me think of "Afro Medusa - Pasilda" and other similar latin/tribal house music. Don't know why it's just a perfect matching sound to this.