Within seconds of loading the Winamp Skin Museum, I found 3D Kenny from South Park, Garfield, and Homestar Runner. 20 years ago, who would have thought to make a Winamp skin for Mountain Dew Code Red or Pizza Hut? Why did we need a Winamp skin for Cowboy Bebop in 2005 ......" Some of life's mysteries will never be solved, but I was still able to bathe in this vast collection of some 65,000 skins. This is software nostalgia at its finest.

The Winamp Skin Museum is a project by Jordan Eldredge, who along with Jason Scott of the Internet Archive, has collected tens of thousands of skins to be stored at the Internet Archive. However, the interface was not very good for casual browsing of thousands of skins, so he created a better one. Searching is incredibly fast. My first attempt at typing in "bebpo" before I was caffeinated actually yielded a lot of search results. I don't know if the search function is very smart or if a lot of the skin metadata is typed out, but honestly, I could have searched either way.

The coolest feature of the museum is its integration with Webamp, the browser-based version of Eldredge's Winamp 2. Click on any skin in the archive, then click on the Webamp link at the bottom of the page, and that skin will load. For example, here's what it looks like: don't ask me if Llama Whippin' Intro is built in. Of course it is included.

The Webamp player is interactive, so you can drag elements around on the screen, resize them, and reduce them to a compact mini-player. If you really want to use it, you can even load your own music files. The interface is quite small on a 1440p monitor, so you may want to lower the resolution to 1024x768 for a real experience.

The Winamp Skin Museum is infinitely scrollable, but I had trouble loading more than one screen of skins; Eldredge's tweet got quite a bit of attention, so the server may be struggling with an unexpected load.

Comments and replies have been great fun with people rediscovering skins they made years ago in their collections, and if you want to enjoy Winamp in more bite-sized pieces every day, follow the Twitter bot that posts a skin every few hours.