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A strange new Facebook application is being launched, which is based on bringing back Internet of the 90s. E.gg is the latest creation of Experimental Facebook Application Team New Product Experimentation and aims to “recover that atmosphere” from the first website.
The About E.gg section looks like an old-school Geocities website, and it even has a GIF of the old animated baby Oogachacka 3D, one of the first viral hits on the internet.
“We started working at E.gg after some of us missed a certain raw, exploratory spirit that was so emblematic of The Early Internet,” the developers wrote. Sure, it was awkward to use, dangerous at times, even, but in that awkward mess was a bizarre and life-giving bazaar of flickering GIFs, passionate guestbook entries, personal websites made by people who deeply cared about a niche of their interest and they just wanted to create their own digital space. “
E.gg can be used to create collages and mixed media pages for fan sites or a page about your own app. Once the iOS app starts, you can use it to create a “canvas” full of GIFs, images, and text, placing this content anywhere on the page and choosing a URL for creation.
The waiting list is open now, and the app will launch “continuously.” You can follow E.gg on Instagram. At this point, he only has 350 followers.
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