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

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Post by sotojuan »

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…

https://twitter.com/wwwtxt is always there to remind you of the good times of the Internet.

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Post by Legion »

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.

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Post by tsumnia »

There something enjoyable about all the bad homepages of the 90s. Pictures of people still seem "old" because the frequency you'd get to see how you looked was so stretched out. Even rpeden's first picture is an example of the general "hey, I'm here" pose. Good times, I can only imagine screenshots of square Minecraft houses will be what child of the 10's will look back at as their first dives into Computer-dom.

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Post by ambrosite »

samsonradu wrote: post #47
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.

You might like this one too: https://www.lingscars.com/

That's awesome, but to me it is an example of retro design -- that is, a site made to look as if it was built back then, not something that would actually have been built back then. Still very cool though.

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Post by rpeden »

noonespecial wrote: post #6
rpeden wrote: post #2

Well, 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 tried to sign it! You should consider reviving it. Write it in perl. And lets us know its working again with a blink tag.

I just updated it with a guestbook that works. :)

First update the site has seen in 19 years.

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Post by kwelstr »

tehlike wrote: post #18

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…

Yawzda! I found mine too :O

http://web.archive.org/web/19981205183936/http://www.shadow....

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Post by samsonradu »

ambrosite wrote: post #56
samsonradu wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might like this one too: https://www.lingscars.com/

That's awesome, but to me it is an example of retro design -- that is, a site made to look as if it was built back then, not something that would actually have been built back then. Still very cool though.

Yeah, this one's actually in use, which makes it even more interesting. Not sure when it was built though.
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