Weird as it may sound, Facebook is launching an app with the aim of bringing back the internet experience of the 90s.
The app called E.gg is the newest product from Facebook’s experimental app team New Product Experimentation and is aimed at “recapturing that atmosphere” of the early web.
The app’s about section looks an old-school Geocities web page, and even has a GIF of the old 3D animated Oogachacka dancing baby — one of the internet’s first viral hits.
The developers wrote, “We started working on E.gg after a few of us found ourselves missing a certain raw and exploratory spirit that was so emblematic of The Early Internet.
“Sure, it was clumsy to use — dangerous at times, even — but in that awkward mess was a weird and enlivening bazaar of manically-blinking GIFs, passionate guestbook entries, personal webpages made by people who cared deeply about a niche interest of theirs and wanted simply to carve out their own digital space.”
E.gg can be used for creating collages and mixed-media pages for fan sites or an about page for your own app. Once the iOS app launches, you can use it to create a “canvas” filled with GIFs, pictures and text, placing this content anywhere on the page and choosing a URL for the creation.
The waitlist is open now, and the app will be launched “on a rolling basis.”
