Ancient Web: Bagdad, Arkansas is a tourism site for a

town that may not exist

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A chamber-style directory lists the aquarium, Johann Day, and Crazy Andy’s Cow Petting Zoo and Burger Store—plus a 555 phone number. The page never quite winks, which is the joke: it keeps issuing visitor information for an apparently fictional town. Deadpan HTML is a surprisingly durable comedy format.

Original site: https://www.bagdadarkansas.org/

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