Restoring the 2004 site

The 2004 edition of the roblox website has been something of a mess for a while now. Save for two archived screenshots, the only archive of the site in the wayback machine lacks functional CSS or javascript, as well as displaying no pictures whatsoever. I personally have tried to fix what’s available but to no great success. The archived images are displayed below:

Earlier today, a user by the name of Ktoby found two critical archives: the original 2004 landing page and the roblox.css file from 2004. Not only were these both yet undiscovered, they are also now the oldest confirmed archives of the roblox website, being from August 2004, which puts them slightly after archives of the earliest Roblox forum posts.

Anyways, armed with the correct css and landing page, I set forth to finally fix the 2004 webpage.

It took a bit of finagling, but the end result is functional and visually faithful to the two previously known screenshots.

That isn’t all, though. For months I have known that the 2004 site contains elements making it nigh-certain that gameplay with the 2004 client required some site-based input, but now that I have corrected the site’s display errors I can finally confirm exactly how that input would have looked:

As an added bonus, here’s a (chronologically inaccurate) rendition of what roblox gameplay might have looked like in this era, using the G3D 2005 remake.

You can play around with the restored site for yourself here.

-DirtPiper