genuine old internet badges

i have an archived copy of my website from the old internet, which i kept from 1999-2001. in it, are some badges i had had displayed on that website. these are original old internet badges from the early days of the internet. unfortunately i didn't collect many. but here they are regardless:

what i saw on august 11, 2000

on august 11, 2000 i took a screenshot of my computer. i wanted to show an example of what my new webcam website should look like. here is what it was like to use the internet on that day:



things of interest are the icons along the bottom, including mIRC, napster, jasc paint shop pro 6, winamp, and ICQ

the caption of 'ugly butterfly' is a lyric from the song swallowtail, by finger eleven

what i saw on november 1st, 2000

on november 1st, 2000 i took a screenshot of what my computer desktop looked like:



things of interest are the napster and ICQ icons, as well as in the taskbar, you could see i was listening to The Offspring on my winamp player, and chatting on mIRC

ratemyface.com

there used to be a website called ratemyface.com, which i believe was created before hot or not.



i uploaded a photo of willow rosenberg from buffy the vampire slayer (the user "extra_flamey"), and i took this screenshot to commemorate getting her to the number 1 Top Girl position