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Re: Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s

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Post by mirimir »

marban wrote: post #151
baby wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I need to write a love letter to Flash and how it made every website look like a christmas tree. There was so much life in there, it was a race to dynamism when we didn’t know how to make things dynamic. Now it’s all about flat design and static pages and don’t make the users learn a new UI and use the same CSS framework everybody else is using.

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

That is sweet! And then there was hell.com and associated sites. But I find no video :( Basically, once you paid $100 to repurchase your soul, you got lifetime access, and a hell.com email address :)

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Post by rpeden »

munificent wrote: post #145

Here's my old website: http://stuffwithstuff.com/robot-frog/index.html At some point (alas!) I lost the domain robot-frog.com, so note that some of the top-level links on the site won't go to the right place. All the relative links should work, though. The name of the is the site is kind of silly. I was typing random emoticons in an email and came up with [:|], which looked like a robot frog to me.

Thanks for sharing that, Bob. I really like your site's design.

I also think that the name of the site is more awesome than silly. Not that silly is bad. A bit of silly makes life much more enjoyable! :)

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Post by d33k4y »

Tbh, I was hoping for an embedded midi file with no sound control. :)

My favourite part of this experience was my reaction to seeing your ICQ number. It was 'dang, he was a couple thousand ahead of me.' Somehow I still remember my ICQ number, though I don't think I've used it since 2001.

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Post by degenerate »

magissima wrote: post #163
milesvp wrote: post #149

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I actually still force myself type out anything that's important enough for me to know it or understand it. Text, code, doesn't matter. Some things I'll even write by hand if I really think it's important enough for me to remember.

Personally I can't think of anything that warrants that treatment more than KoRn lyrics.

A.D.I.D.A.S.

Re: Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s

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Post by rpeden »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #252

Why all the Micro$oft hate? J++! Those were the days.

To be fair, I was 17 and fighting the man was the cool thing to do. :)

I see you're a fan of Elm. Me too! I'm also slowly working on an Elm side project. Sadly, I don't think it'll ever get as much attention on HN as my 1999 website has over the past few hours.

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Post by rpeden »

jgh wrote: post #200

I was looking at your pics and was like "I think I went to high school with this guy". Turns out I went to high school with you.

I think there are at least a few of us here on HN!

Feel free to send me an e-mail if you'd like. It's in my HN profile.

Re: Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s

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Post by Navarr »

starsinspace wrote: post #108
Legion wrote: post #54

I 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.

When talking about this, people often like to joke about the webdesign back then. But the personal websites had personality. Facebook profiles feel like government forms to me... "here, fill in this standardized array of fields with your personal data."

When I wrote Route50.net with a friend, we tried to keep that somewhat alive - to either good or terrible consequences.

Route50.net has:

* Moveable widgets * Easy theme styling * Optional complete CSS customization

And then, since one of the main points was an artistic gallery - we allowed users to share their CSS in the gallery, and other users could preview it and install it

Ex: http://route50.net/base/navarr http://route50.net/base/navarr?style=12675

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Post by alyandon »

alanfalcon wrote: post #167
kurthr wrote: post #105

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That's what the wayback machine is for! It's good for most personal pages back to about '99. https://web.archive.org/ It's awesome if you want to see which animated separator GIFs and crazy tiled backgrounds you were using.

Assuming the images ever load haha. This was me in 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/19981202215109/members.xoom.com/...

Ah yes the 90s...

https://web.archive.org/web/19990223201901/http://members.xo...

That really brings back some memories.

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Post by [deleted] »

baby wrote: post #124
starsinspace wrote: post #108

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When talking about this, people often like to joke about the webdesign back then. But the personal websites had personality. Facebook profiles feel like government forms to me... "here, fill in this standardized array of fields with your personal data."

I need to write a love letter to Flash and how it made every website look like a christmas tree. There was so much life in there, it was a race to dynamism when we didn’t know how to make things dynamic. Now it’s all about flat design and static pages and don’t make the users learn a new UI and use the same CSS framework everybody else is using.

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