While most people use the Wayback Machine to see old GeoCities pages, the Archive’s text, audio, and moving image collections hold the detritus of 20th-century pop culture. Searching for a major studio film like Independence Day yields results that are often more interesting than the film itself.
In the mid-90s, movie websites were a novelty. While most studios treated websites as static digital posters, 20th Century Fox used to build an immersive universe that mirrored the film's global stakes. independence day 1996 internet archive