Remember when every website on the World Wide Web didn’t kinda-sorta look the same? Or, at the very least, when every website hadn’t yet jumped on the “clean/minimalist” bandwagon and were funky, loaded with text, and plagued by animated GIFs? Want to relive those days? Okay! Using the trusty Wayback Machine, let’s look at some Milwaukee restaurant websites—now and then!

There wasn’t much criteria in assembling this random list—places needed to be located in Milwaukee (yeah yeah, Kopp’s is outside city limits, but its old website has an animated Packers helmet!) and they needed to be open in 2024. That’s it! Enjoy! Long live the Weird Old Web!

BEANS & BARLEY

2024

1999

BELAIR CANTINA

2024

2011

FUEL CAFE

2024

2001

KOPP’S FROZEN CUSTARD

2024

2002

LULU

2024

2005

OAKLAND GYROS

2024

1998

PIZZA SHUTTLE

2024

2003

SAFE HOUSE

2024

1997

SPEED QUEEN BAR-B-Q

2024

2012

STENY’S

2024

2008

ZAYNA’S PIZZA

2024

2004

BONUS!

2024

1998

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