Aahhh! This is something I am interested in as well. I don't have a definite answer but a few vintage points and directions in which you can start your journey and find more stuff from there - https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/ - https://textfiles.com/ If you are searching for Pre Main stream internet, you can start with BBS - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7nj3G6Jpv2G6Gp6NvN1kUtQuW8QshBWE If you are looking... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

You can also sign up for my newsletter, where I regularly sound out stories about web history and new additions to the (still growing) timeline! https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

And even more in depth at https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/. Source: about 3 years ago

Not sure if Im more shocked about the title or that ebaumsworld.com still exists. Source: about 1 year ago

To be fair, the "whole internet" was very different in the early 2000s. This was before social media was really a thing, before internet connection was even a thing for many people. A stream like that would have meant that maybe a few dozen or hundred people got to see you and maybe a portion of your clip ended up on ebaumsworld.com. It's not really comparable to videos going viral nowadays. Source: over 1 year ago

He grabbed early memes and Web 1.0 content from all over the Internet and slapped it with an "ebaumsworld.com" watermark. He was one of the only people profiting from the original meme culture, and he was doing it basically by stealing it and declaring it all his own. Source: almost 2 years ago

Ebaums world. I used to visit that place every damn day. Source: over 2 years ago

Not sure were it came from in the first place or how old found it on ebaumsworld.com which is a memes archive some pretty horrid crap on there. Source: almost 3 years ago