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

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Post by djhworld »

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 probably never got that many views, but my god sometimes you'd come across some gems.

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

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Post by ambrosite »

I love it. I have an unreasonable amount of nostalgia for old websites like this. This is what the whole Web looked like back in the early days, before the usability and design gurus figured out the "best practices" and all sites started looking the same. It really was a wild new frontier. I'm not saying the Web was objectively better back then, but it sure was fun.

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

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Post by owlninja »

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…

There is still hope: http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/

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

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Post by cortesoft »

ambrosite wrote: post #12

I love it. I have an unreasonable amount of nostalgia for old websites like this. This is what the whole Web looked like back in the early days, before the usability and design gurus figured out the "best practices" and all sites started looking the same. It really was a wild new frontier. I'm not saying the Web was objectively better back then, but it sure was fun.

I feel like it needs more blink and marquee tags, and a tiled background.

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

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Post by tehlike »

I just found mine from web.archive

http://web.archive.org/web/20000529170547/http://karakedi.vi...

There is supposed to be more content, but it's ridiculously broken under webarchive indexing

Backgroundlar (wallpapers) Gif arşivi yenilendi (gif archive) Duvar Yazıları (some wall texts) YENİ 1 ICQ KULLANICISI(Toplam 17 Kullanıcı) (apparently i had a list of potentially Turkish users). İnter Emlak bölümünde kiralık ev arayan biri var (and my attempt for starting an online real estate site.

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

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Post by AndrewStephens »

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…

You are the target audience for https://wiby.me - the search engine for old school websites
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