A pixel-art museum room at night: a platform game on a big monitor, laptops showing a block-building game, a dual-screen handheld, a trophy and a lava lamp.

Browser games, silly videos and the first apps on the first touchscreens. This wing celebrates the years when the web turned into a playground, and everybody had something to share.

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    Habbo Hotel: the pixel hotel that never closed

    Habbo Hotel is still open. The Finnish pixel hotel turned 25 in 2025, and its 2005-era hotel came back in 2024. Here's how it outlasted the rest.

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    Minecraft Classic: the browser game that started it all

    The first Minecraft was a free browser game released in May 2009, later renamed Minecraft Classic. Here's how it began, and how you can still play it.

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    What happened to Club Penguin?

    Club Penguin's last day was 29 March 2017. How a tiny Canadian penguin game became a Disney giant, why it shut, and what came after.

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    What happened to Flash games?

    Flash stopped working in January 2021, but the games didn't all die. How the portals rose and fell, and how to play the old favourites today.

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