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Facebook announces internet nostalgia app E.gg – CNET
The Geocities look is back.
Screenshot by Corinne Reichert/CNET
A weird new Facebook app is launching, and it’s based on bringing back the internet of the ’90s. E.gg is the latest creation from Facebook’s experimental app team New Product Experimentation and is aimed at “recapturing that atmosphere” of the early web.
The About section of E.gg looks like 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.
“We started working on E.g…
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