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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