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Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓

Most Quotable: Salon

Smart, sharp & written to be shared.

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#Classof96 @salon.com
Yearbook-style page labeled “Most Quotable” featuring a retro screenshot of Salon.com, decorated with doodles and stickers; caption highlights the site’s sharp commentary on politics, culture, and society.
May 23, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓

Most Talkative: ICQ & Hotmail

The beginning of being always reachable…for better or worse.

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Yearbook-style page labeled "Most Talkative" featuring retro screenshots of ICQ and Hotmail, decorated with doodles, stickers, and speech bubbles; caption notes how ICQ pioneered instant messaging while Hotmail brought free email to the masses.
May 20, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓

Most Likely to Save Everything: Internet Archive

Because the web isn’t forever, unless someone saves it.

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#Classof96 @Archive.org #InternetArchive
Yearbook-style page labeled "Most Likely to Save Everything" featuring a retro screenshot of the early Internet Archive website, decorated with pixel art file folders and red doodles; caption notes the Internet Archive's mission to preserve what others let disappear.
May 21, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓

Most Likely to Fix Your Computer: CNET

Before YouTube tutorials, @CNET.com walked you through every crash, install & “have you tried turning it off and on again?”

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Yearbook-style page labeled "Most Likely to Fix Your Computer" featuring a retro screenshot of the CNET website, decorated with a drawn wrench and pixelated keyboard; caption notes CNET as the go-to destination for tech news, reviews, and how-tos since the early web.
May 10, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓

Most Helpful: Ask Jeeves

Ask a question. Get an answer. Preferably in complete sentences. The internet had a butler once & he was awesome.

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#Classof96
Yearbook-style page labeled "Most Helpful" featuring a retro screenshot of the Ask Jeeves beta website, decorated with gold stars and doodles; caption notes the search engine answered questions in plain language, manners included.
May 15, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓

Class Clown: The Onion (online)

Making us laugh at the news online since 1996 & occasionally making it feel a little too real.

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#Classof96 theonion.com
Yearbook-style page labeled "Class Clown" featuring a retro screenshot of The Onion website from 1996, decorated with a clown illustration and doodles; caption notes the satirical outlet as the funniest and sometimes most accurate voice in the room.
May 16, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓

Most Athletic: Atlanta Olympics Website 🥇

One of the first times the whole world followed the games online. Faster, higher, more digital.

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Yearbook-style page labeled "Most Athletic" featuring a retro screenshot of the official 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics website, decorated with Olympic rings, stars, and a trophy; caption notes the site helped bring the Olympics online, no cable required.
May 19, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓

Best Dressed: eBay

Where the outfit and the backstory come with it. Vintage, rare, unforgettable…just like the early web.

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Yearbook-style page labeled "Best Dressed" featuring a retro screenshot of eBay's website from 1999, decorated with a price tag and illustrated high heel; caption notes eBay's role in making the internet a fashion treasure hunt.
May 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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Celebrating 30 Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓

Class President: Center for Democracy and Technology

@cdt.org helped write the rules of the internet. And 30 years later, they’re still fighting to keep it open.

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Yearbook-style page labeled “Class President” featuring a retro screenshot of the Center for Democracy and Technology website, decorated with a graduation cap, and doodles; caption notes the nonprofit’s role in advancing civil liberties, free expression, and privacy online.
May 9, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓

Best Dressed: eBay

Where the outfit and the backstory come with it. Vintage, rare, unforgettable…just like the early web.

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#Classof96
Yearbook-style page labeled “Most Popular (or knows who is)” featuring a retro screenshot of Alexa Internet, decorated with charts, ribbons, and doodles; caption describes the web analytics company’s role in ranking sites and tracking internet traffic.
May 13, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓

Cutest Couple: W3C & CSS

Structure meets style. The web’s ultimate power couple & still going strong. 💙
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Yearbook-style page labeled "Cutest Couple" featuring retro screenshots of the W3C Discussion Services page and the CSS Level 1 specification, decorated with hearts and a lip print; caption notes W3C and CSS as a true partnership, one building the structure of the web while the other makes it beautiful.
May 17, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓

Best Hair: Unofficial Spice Girls Fan Site

Before social media, fandom lived here: glitter text, tiled backgrounds & serious ‘Wannabe’ hair.

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Yearbook-style page labeled "Best Hair" featuring a retro screenshot of the unofficial Spice Girls fan site SpiceGirls.com, decorated with a pink hair clip, comb, and purple doodles; caption notes the site as early internet fandom at its loudest and proudest.
May 16, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓

Most Likely to LAN Party: Quake

Before Twitch streams there were cables, pizza & Quake. You had to be there (literally).

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#Classof96 @bethesdastudios.com
Yearbook-style page labeled "Most Likely to LAN Party" featuring retro screenshots of the Quake download page and game interface, decorated with a floppy disk, pixel art alien invader, and a "Still Online? Yes via id Software; original Quake stuff — No" stamp; caption notes Quake as the groundbreaking multiplayer shooter that defined online gaming in 1996.
May 22, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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🎉 To mark the 30th anniversary of the #InternetArchive on May 10, we’re opening the yearbook to revisit the Class of 1996; the sites & organizations that helped shape the early web.

Join us in the coming days as we celebrate THE CLASS OF '96 🎓

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#Classof96
Yearbook-style collage showing “1996” and “2026” around the Internet Archive headquarters building, playfully decorated with a party hat, noisemaker, and doodles, suggesting the passage of time and ongoing civic institutions. Yearbook-style “Class of ’96” page featuring a grid of early web brands and sites, including Center for Democracy and Technology, CNET, Ask Jeeves, Alexa Internet, eBay, BackRub (Google), The Onion, Spice Girls website, ICQ, HotMail, Internet Archive, Atlanta 1996 Olympics, Quake, and Salon Magazine.
May 8, 2026 at 4:40 PM
conradjunk.bsky.social
Current #VinylPlaylist
#HighschoolNostalgia Edition #ClassOf96
As graduate of '96, I'm revisiting albums you would have probably caught in my Discman 30 years ago
Vinyl records displayed in wall mounts. Albums Include: Nofx - Heavy Petting Zoo Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral The Beatles - 1967-1970 (The Blue Album) Soundgarden - Superunknown My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Confessions of a Knife Pearl Jam - VS
January 26, 2026 at 11:52 PM
whenwillcarmen.bsky.social
How I know I’m getting old? Tonight is my high school 30 year reunion. That is so weird. I’m 2000 miles away so I won’t be going. #classof96 The only thing that makes me feel not as old…knowing Holly Madison’s is next year. We went to the same middle & high school.
July 18, 2026 at 8:24 PM
conradjunk.bsky.social
Current #VinylPlaylist
#HighschoolNostalgia Edition Pt II
More albums you would have probably caught in my Discman 30 years ago #ClassOf96

#Silverchair - Frogstomp
#PearlJam - Vitalogy
#TempleoftheDog - (Self-Titled)
#TheCrow - (Soundtrack)
#Nirvana - Incesticide
#SmashingPumpkins - Siamese Dream
Vinyl records displayed in wall mounts. Albums include: Silverchair - Frogstomp Pearl Jam - Vitalogy Temple of the Dog - (Self-Titled) The Crow - (Soundtrack) Nirvana - Incesticide Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
February 5, 2026 at 3:12 AM
conradjunk.bsky.social
Current #VinylPlaylist
Nostalgia Edition Part IV
More music you would have heard me jamming in my discman in High School #ClassOf96

#Nirvana - In Utero
Various - #Singles Soundtrack
#RedHotChiliPeppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
#Offspring - Smash
#CypressHill - Black Sunday
#GreenDay - Dookie
Vinyl records displayed in wall mounts. Albums include: Nirvana - In Utero Various - Singles Soundtrack Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik Offspring - Smash Cypress Hill - Black Sunday Green Day - Dookie
March 31, 2026 at 6:20 PM
aarum.bsky.social
I got mines and it fits! 😎 #ClassOf96 & it means the world to me because my grandmother 👵🏾 twin sister got it for me!🤎
May 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
angieh1978.bsky.social
Holy whoa. High school memory unlocked!! #classof96
April 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
toptags.bsky.social
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May 19, 2026 at 12:45 AM
tvratingsguide.bsky.social
Failure to Launch: #Classof96 (Fox, 1993) www.thetvratingsguide.com/2026/04/fail...
The TV Ratings Guide: Failure to Launch: Class of ’96 (Fox, 1993)
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April 28, 2026 at 3:52 PM
aladnamedbrad.bsky.social
Props to Jamie for the Charles Hathaway shoutout on Voluntary Reaction. #classof96 #hillwood4lyfe
November 1, 2024 at 3:35 AM
aladnamedbrad.bsky.social
Class of 96. Look at that hair. I’d do unspeakable things to have it back. 😂. No, really, I would. Never said I wasn’t vain. #seniorpictures #classof96 https://www.instagram.com/p/B-4vRN5hqoP/?igshid=1rovjt4o84xb8
Brad Cecil on Instagram: "Class of 96. Look at that hair. I’d do unspeakable things to have it back. 😂. No, really, I would. Never said I wasn’t vain. #seniorpictures #classof96"
7 likes, 0 comments - aladnamedbrad on April 12, 2020: "Class of 96. Look at that hair. I’d do unspeakable things to have it back. 😂. No, really, I would. Never said I wasn’t vain. #seniorpictures #classof96".
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November 1, 2024 at 1:50 AM
conradjunk.bsky.social
Current #VinylPlaylist
Nostalgia Edition Part III
More directly after high school, I worked a bit at a local record store (Toons) and I started digging into other Newer and older punk & alt bands. #ClassOf96
Vinyl records displayed in wall mounts. Albums include: Rhythm Collision - Clobberer Stabbing Westward - Wither, Blister, Burn & Peel Girls Against Boys - House of GVSB Ned's Atomic Dustbin - GODFODDER Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon Ministry - Psalm 69
March 7, 2026 at 7:29 PM