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Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
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#72Oh, I'm all over this one. My OG KoolAid Fan Site. See if you can crack the secret club password. http://www.angelfire.com/oh5/koolaid/
Because you asked -- gates ;)
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#73This 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…
Check out the (official?) site to buy Wheel of Fortune/Jeopardy! tickets for some nostalgia:
http://www.wheeljeopardytickets.com/
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#74I 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.
I don’t think fewer people publish on their own sites today. There are just more people on the internet.
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#75One thing I noticed: Xoom.com referenced in the webpage is now a large money transfer company
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#76Well, 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.
Yeah I wrote my own guestbook with Perl in the late 90's and it lasted the entire life of the sites I used it on. Perl is great for stuff like that and it's supported by all kinds of hosting environments!
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#77Well, 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.
The funny part is that even though the blink tag is gone, it can be reimplemented in CSS. :)
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#78It's not embarrassing at all! It's no different than picking on the clothes we used to wear back in the 90s. Everyone was neon, too large, and a bit too flashy. It's a product of the times.
It's always kind of neat to look at these sites and see the creativity of them. I wasn't really on the internet back then, but I do remember just looking for all of those multi-color joke sites. I love it when these sites pop up here.
I always enjoy showing people Zombo Com:
Over time, Flash died and so they kept the spirit alive by creating an HTML5 version:
Some things are just worth keeping around, just so that we don't lose our history and zeitgeist of earlier decades. We don't have photographs to remind us and if the old internet dies, we lose a huge chunk of what made today possible.
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#79Great nostalgia. What a fun and unique time for the web, truly.
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#80I 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 frighten experienced software developers even know.