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

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This made me realize my old bootleg trading site is probably somewhere, and sure enough, I found it!

http://web.archive.org/web/20010405110002/http://dillon2112....

Reading through all my banter, I'm most surprised that I was trading MP3s via MySpace in 2000, and that apparently it was first known as FreeDiskSpace.com, which explains why I used it.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010417000314/http://www.freedis...

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

#112

XOOM counter! I can't believe I forgot that XOOM existed back in the day

When I was younger I taught myself HTML and started helping out on the XOOM support chat (forum?). They noticed my passion and sent me a job application form and seemed eager to bring me onboard. I was pretty excited and promptly completed it. Unfortunately I did not get the job. They had absolutely no idea I was only 14 years old and assumed I was much older. Man, I miss the innocent days of the internet.

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

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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.

> represents a period of time where average people used the open Web to publish

Come on, you know publishing can’t work without a paywall or your adblocker turned off, everyone knows that.

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

#114

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

I clicked "Surprise Me" and got this creepy page:

http://idiom.com/~beverly/hans_resume.html

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

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post #48

Me (1994): I should buy up a bunch of english dictionary word .com domains, since they are so cheap, I cant lose money. Domains bought: 0 Bad memories.

I almost registered Google.com using namezero. I could have changed history...

Edit: After searching archive.org it looks like I was way off. Google.com was registered in 1997 while NameZero wasn't launched until ~1999/2000.

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

#119

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

This is a fantastic search engine. I clicked 'surprise me' and ended up at http://homebrewcpuring.org - a web ring! I don't think I've seen a web ring in 15 years. I wish they were still popular; what a wonderful way to discover new stuff.

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

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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....

Yours work very nicely! I have discovered online ads and iframes apparently, nothing works!
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