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It mostly inspired my current blog design when I realized I could do so much better at the pseudo-LCARS thing with flexbox and border-radius today instead of TABLEs and corner gifs I had to work with then. I'd like to think that 90s HS kid me would be quite proud at my current blog design.
Honestly I'm amazed these are still up, it's been almost 20 years and I don't think there's a chance I'll remember the password or email I used.
P. S. I was 12 when I wrote it, just ignore the ridiculous content
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 I took a class like that we used Dreamweaver (after writing some pages in notepad of course) and later Flash. Never learned Javascript back then, in fact our teacher encouraged us to check it out, but it wasn't part of the curriculum. It was mostly a class for anyone interested in dipping their toe in the web without any prior experience.
One thing I noticed: Xoom.com referenced in the webpage is now a large money transfer company
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/