http://www.aolwatch.org/chronic2.htm Hack the Planet!
Oh my gosh, I used to know a guy that went by 'puppies' or something that used to talk extensively about the "AOL progz" and I just got a flashback. This is incredible.
Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
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#202It is 2018 so this is a good time to have this debate.
Geocities > Angelfire > Homestead > Lycos Tripod.
I remember holding this opinion but cannot remember why, or if it was actually informed by anything.
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't miss Flash but the jaw-dropping impression when visiting Gabo for the first time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y-ESJS911c
DVD menus are annoying enough when you're trying to watch a film, and they're supposed to be entertaining. Can you imagine if every website was like that?
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#204This got me wondering if Matt's Script Archive was still around and lo and behold: http://www.scriptarchive.com/ Making interactive forms and CGIs was where I really started getting inspired to learn programming. Matt's scripts were some of the first perl I learned from. I basically transformed WWWBoard into a web-based chat back in '97.
Same here, I modified a lot of his scripts.
His stuff was great and it was amazingly ubiquitous back then. If a site had an email form, forum or guestbook, chances are it was his work.
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#205No MIDI autoplay? :(
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#206Miss you, vertically and horizontally center... that was a real accomplishment
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't miss Flash but the jaw-dropping impression when visiting Gabo for the first time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y-ESJS911c
DVD menus are annoying enough when you're trying to watch a film, and they're supposed to be entertaining. Can you imagine if every website was like that?
It was almost like shortly after stuff like Gabocorp. It became a fad. Websites were adding flash intros like crazy for a while. Music too.
And it was as awful as you imagine.
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#208Unlimited WEB SPACE, EMAIL & CHAT ??
I better get on this one quick..
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#209My old geocities site from the 90s is long gone but from what I remember it had: - The midi version of the exorcist theme song[0] that autoplayed - That old animated HR of a stickman peeing onto an internet explorer button - Various 2600 magazine related documents and links - A whole bunch of VB6 apps I made and their source code - A guestbook / hit counter [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1PH_Y8Xn4g BUT here's…
Learning how to host midis and then was literally magic to 9th grade me.
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#210I 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.
Most who were just tinkering still posted to something like geocities, but I agree that spirit has been lost. What do they do in middle school / high school web development classes these days anyway? Kind of the appeal 20 years ago was that you could learn HTML pretty easily and whip up a simple personal website like this and have fun doing it. It didn't exactly "teach" much, at least in my experience, but it was ins…
A lot of web development curriculum these days tends to focus on writing apps with JavaScript, or learning a new library. HTML/CSS is still taught, but I feel the “HTML is not a real language” sort of drives people away.