Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s

Post by krisdol » Fri, Mar 02, 2018, 9:43 PM UTC

vbezhenar wrote: post #80

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.

Are you sure that they were average people? In my experience, average people only started to publish things on Web after blog platforms enabled them to do so. The only people who published in the web at that time were people with technical background (or people who had enough free time and will to learn). HTML is not easy for someone, who's not computer-savvy and a quest to publish and support your website might frig…

Post by dpio » Fri, Mar 02, 2018, 9:44 PM UTC

Post by amatecha » Fri, Mar 02, 2018, 9:44 PM UTC

sedachv wrote: post #36

taco_emoji wrote: post #21

I really, really wish I could find my old Geocities website. It was mostly just a bunch of jokes I found around the Internet, and it'd be interesting to see what kind of stuff I found funny back in 1999. It might be sitting on an old hard drive in my basement (I never dispose of them with other equipment, instead telling myself I will someday wipe them manually and/or drill through the platters).

> I never dispose of them with other equipment, instead telling myself I will someday wipe them manually and/or drill through the platters Don't do that! Hoard them to sell on eBay for hobby money later. There is a looming retrocomputing SCSI hard drive shortage. You can already get good prices for 50-pin SCSI drives. I don't know about ATA/IDE drives, but I imagine people trying to build "authentic" systems will dri…

Post by kyledrake » Fri, Mar 02, 2018, 9:46 PM UTC

sedachv wrote: post #61

djhworld wrote: post #11

This 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…

HN user kyledrake started https://neocities.org/ in 2013 and it is going strong.

Post by amatecha » Fri, Mar 02, 2018, 9:47 PM UTC