The 2001 Dallas/Ft. Worth psychedelic homepage of the sdelic crew: Stone Kingdom, eye candy, bootleg tape lists, BBS captures and the web of 2001, excavated from the Wayback Machine and rebuilt as living fractal light. The untouched original pages are preserved under /original-2001/.

What is preserved here?

Seven original 2001 pages (homepage, Stone Kingdom, bootlegs, the Crystal Ship BBS page, The Shack BBS picture gallery, thoughts and links), plus the rebuilt experience: Blotter Art Theater, a live Geek Code decoder, and ANSI terminal sessions recovered from the BBS days.

Where is tHe sHacK bBS today?

Back on the air. The homebrew BBS of velvet.ath.cx (1998–2006), reconstructed from the 2006-10-26 filesystem dump, runs again in the browser at theshackbbs.online.

The Web They Knew

the neighborhood · crawled & preserved

The Web They Knew

⏳ original 2001 page ↗

In 2001 this little site opened doors into a neighborhood of the early web. Every one of these pages was linked from sdelic.org and every one was crawled and preserved — tape traders, deadheads, hacker BBS kids, and a listener-supported radio station in Dallas. The doors below open onto their 2001-era Wayback Machine snapshots — and, for the neighbors still alive in 2026, onto the living site itself.

Lone Star Dead

KNON · Grateful Dead radio

www.conservatory.com/eric/

“The show was started in 1983, the first year of the radio station, by the world renowned 'Grateful Dave' Moynihan. Since 1992 it has been produced and hosted by Eric Schwartz (that's me)... It's a dirty job but.........”

etree.org

lossless audio trading

etree.org

“The award-winning leader in lossless digital audio distribution on the Internet! We do not distribute MP3 due to its lossy compression scheme. If you trade CD-R's from MP3 audio, you are polluting the CD-R trading community.”

phans.com

Phish fandom

phans.com

“Oysterhead setlists, photos, winamp skins, J-cards... Buy The Pharmer's Almanac Vol. 6 through phans.com and get TWO FREE COPIES of '2001: A Year Without Phish.'”

phish.com

the band, official

phish.com

“Dry Goods · Text Only News · Text Only Tour Dates · Tickets By Mail · Live Phish — the band was on hiatus, and the web page was quiet.”

The Slip

jamband, Boston

theslip.com

SkippyLand

phriend comedy

skippy.blargh.net

“REVEREND SKIPPY ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE! Just remember kiddies... A Vote for BRAK, is a Vote for BEANS, EVERY DAY!!!! This page (just like yer momma) is best viewed with...”

Huck's Mountain O' Angst

anti-angst manifesto

huck.blargh.net

“YOU DON'T KNOW MY PAIN!!! Is this your mantra in life? ... I AM A MERE MORTAL AND I LIKE IT! IF YOU ARE USING NETSCAPE THIS PAGE WILL NOT LOOK GOOD FOR YOU!”

9x Datakit Network

underground datakit

9x.tc

“STATION ID — 7047/3.12 — FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY. This is a 9x system, restricted to authorized persons and for official 9x business only. [Enter] [Exit]”

Pollstar

concert tour database

pollstar.com

“Now Showing: 34,685 Events · 4,797 Artists. Ozzy ventures to the Great White North; legendary Peggy Lee dies; GWAR don't disappoint when it comes to shocking their audiences.”

Independent Media Center

grassroots news collective

indymedia.org

“Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage... radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.”

HIGH TIMES

counterculture magazine

hightimes.com

“ENTRY WARNING! — the flash intro the government warned you about. (The original page was one giant Flash animation.)”

KNON 89.3 FM

Dallas community radio

knon.org

“The programming schedule — one giant GIF of the weekly grid. 50,000 watts of Jazz, Metal, Dead, you name it.”

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