From the Anti-Barney Humor Wikipedia article:
The Barney Fun Page is an early website that allows users to attack a crude drawing of Barney with icons representing a knife, gun, and other weapons. Hosted originally on a University of Alberta computer system, the website was created in 1994. It is among the oldest websites in the world still operating as of 2025.
Was JavaScript even a thing in 1994? Certainly flash wasn’t. I wonder what this looked like. I remember text websites with the lynx browser.
Here is the site: https://impressive.net/games/barney/fun.cgi
It uses the isMap image element to send the coordinates of where you clicked on the image and then returns an updated image created by the server.
Oh nice thanks. So it uses what we used to call cgi and server side image generation. Not bad for 1994.
I’d say highly impressive for 1994