DJLinus

I thought this was good for a chuckle. Warner Bros. has left Space Jam's official site untouched since 1996:

http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

Dig those frames! Actually, I kind of prefer this simpler design to some of the overly flashed ones of today.

My Other Self

The Vegas Vacation one from 1997 is even more primitive. This was up until a couple of a years ago.

http://web.archive.org/web/199710130.../cmp/cast.html

Dr. DVD

I think the first movie website to get a lot of traffic was Showgirls. I remember it being the first I visited when I got internet in my dorm in college, which was also the first time I had internet!

bluetoast

I remember going to the one for The Phantom as a kid, passing the Phantom's initiation test, and entering "The Phantom" as my name. He had to take his own test on his own site? Man that seemed hilarious as a kid.

A few years later when Pizza Hut would give out free mix CDs, I would name them something like "Papa John's is the best!", "Dominoes is better" which would end up getting printed on the label.

My Other Self

I don't remember them doing that. The only promotion I recall is when they had an MGM DVD promotion between Bill & Ted, Mr. Mom and 2 others you could get with a pizza. They came in a cardboard sleeve.

This was close to when DVD was still in its infancy.

bluetoast

Yeah I got the Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey one, I remember getting mine in 2003, paper cases. I inserted it into the first Bill & Ted DVD. Honeymoon in Vegas was also one of them.

The Pizza Hut mixes were around '98 or so. You can choose around 3 songs, couldn't repeat artists, and then you name it and they mail it to you. I'll try to get a pic if I can find them.

islandclaws

Haha. Oh, man, I totally remember those Pizza Hut mix CDs. IIRC, the selection was crap, but I was thrilled at the idea of getting free CDs mailed to me (I was 16).

JesseCuster

My fav was the original Blair Witch Project website. Spooky as hell. I also guessed right and made a mint on HSX with the film. Who knew.

matome

LOL nice find!

TheBang

Both the Star Trek Generations and First Contact websites were very advanced for their time.

http://movies.trekcore.com/generatio...onswebsite.pdf

Actually, according to this, Generations was the first official movie website ever.

Mondo Kane

Ah, the days when you always had to say "Double-you, double-you, double-you, dot" outloud.

cungar

Actually a better design than a lot of sites I see these days

The Bus

My first movie-related memory was when I first got broadish band and downloaded the trailer for The Rock on Quicktime. It was like... 320 pixels by 240 pixels! And it only took ten minutes to download.

The Bus

How I know I was on the internet really early:

A Yahoo search for "face-sitting" returned 1 result.

PenguinJoe

In 1996 I was eleven and remember kids talking about how awesome that movie was being from Chicago. I think I had some collectible space jam cups or something.

Michael Corvin

Still better than Ain't it Cool News.

Troy Stiffler

That would actually be a cool retro site today.

Troy Stiffler

Anyone remember this monstrosity? http://web.archive.org/web/199911271....dvdtalk.com/?