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Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
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Re: Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
#132Well, I certainly didn't expect this to make the front page. I just wish the guestbook still worked. :) I hadn't looked at the site in years and was actually surprised to find it still running. It's been on the same free hosting site for about 20 years.
I clicked on the FreeServers ad... hopefully you get paid :)
Re: Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
#133Here's mine: http://users.otenet.gr/~serafeim/old.htm - it's first version was from around 1998 when I was 16 years old so please don't be too judgmental :)
It was just a bunch of static html pages that were uploaded through FTP to my internet provider's space. Funny thing - my internet provider still supports publishing home pages so the page remains active for around 20 years (!) with a bunch of revisions: http://users.otenet.gr/~serafeim/ -- too bad the cgi-bin counter is not working anymore :(
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#134This brings back memories, the days when geocities, and software like frontpage and dreamweaver were a thing. Most personal websites were exactly like this, word art, silly animated GIFs, "under construction" images, the author being optimistic about updating the site. Soemtimes you'd come across someone who'd made a site that more focussed around a special interest and they updated it often, a personal endevour that…
There is still hope: http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/
The smoothness of the marquee text is irritating. ;-) On a more serious note (haha), awesome theme. Tempted to think up something to build with it :-D
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#135This reminds me of my first Geocities website: a full repository of KoRn's lyrics to date. It's not that this didn't exist elsewhere on the internet (indeed it did, as of course I used these other sites as source material), but nowhere seemed to have the exact red-text-on-black-background look I was going for at the time. The most excruciating part of this memory is not that I worshipped a nu-metal band, but instead…
This is so endearing. I love your younger self's commitment to the cause of KoRn.
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#136OP if it makes you feel any better, the original Space Jam (movie) website is still online, and it still looks like the '90s took a dump all over it. Loaded quickly on my 28.8Kbps modem.
https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
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#137I miss this era of the Internet. It represents a period of time where average people used the open Web to publish , rather than post on a corporation's platform. Obviously there's been plenty of development since then that I would not give back, but people favoring publishing their own sites rather than posting on social media is not incompatible with those developments. That part didn't need to be lost.
> represents a period of time where average people used the open Web to publish Come on, you know publishing can’t work without a paywall or your adblocker turned off, everyone knows that.
Publishing can work without those things. What's not clear is that journalism can. It is expensive to groom primary sources and investigate stories. I'm quite happy that at least a few organisations seem to have figured out a model by which they can fund such things. Otherwise it would be very difficult for me to know anything true about the world outside my immediate friends and family.
Re: Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
#138This brings back memories, the days when geocities, and software like frontpage and dreamweaver were a thing. Most personal websites were exactly like this, word art, silly animated GIFs, "under construction" images, the author being optimistic about updating the site. Soemtimes you'd come across someone who'd made a site that more focussed around a special interest and they updated it often, a personal endevour that…
Back in 97 I had a PS1 (then known as PSX) news site on Geocities that had a weekly newsletter with game reviews contributed by other internet randos. I actually got some free games to review from companies. I was too young to think of making a backup when it fizzled out, and I couldn't find it on that Geocities archive site. That made me deeply sad.
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#139I wonder if you got the animated red dot GIF from bellsnwhistles.com. I sure used their gifs on my first website (sadly lost to time, courtesy of angelfire deleting unpopular pages + a particularly nasty Windows bug that deleted my local copy)
Re: Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
#140I miss this era of the Internet. It represents a period of time where average people used the open Web to publish , rather than post on a corporation's platform. Obviously there's been plenty of development since then that I would not give back, but people favoring publishing their own sites rather than posting on social media is not incompatible with those developments. That part didn't need to be lost.
I just stumbled on W3's ActivityPub and hope this takes off. If we can combine the independance of publishing and a way to link stuff together, it might go a long way to reduce our dependency on big platforms. https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
>a way to link stuff together
Maybe... hyperlinks via tags?