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Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
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#162I remember guestbooks! This is awesome, I remember making my Guestbook in fifth grade to take song and music video requests I would embed on a separate page.
All you're missing is an animated mouse and a hit counter. This really made me smile.
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#163This reminds me of my first Geocities website: a full repository of KoRn's lyrics to date. It's not that this didn't exist elsewhere on the internet (indeed it did, as of course I used these other sites as source material), but nowhere seemed to have the exact red-text-on-black-background look I was going for at the time. The most excruciating part of this memory is not that I worshipped a nu-metal band, but instead…
I actually still force myself type out anything that's important enough for me to know it or understand it. Text, code, doesn't matter. Some things I'll even write by hand if I really think it's important enough for me to remember.
Personally I can't think of anything that warrants that treatment more than KoRn lyrics.
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#164Ah, the nostalgia. Mine is no longer online, but was pretty well archived by the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20010607062747/http://world.std....
Really makes me cringe to read some of that text, but that was high school.
Oh, and even more eye-bleeding is the page I ran for a Nomic that I was in, and webmaster (sorry, "Secretarylet of the Revolution in charge of Web Pages") for: http://www.nomic.net/deadgames/macronomic/. I don't know what I was thinking when picking that particular shade of red; red made sense, but I'm sure that even with the palettes available back then, I could have picked one a bit less painful.
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#165A millennial friend is studying the early internet in college. I asked them if they had discussed webrings yet. "What's a webring??" Oh boy...
If you want a lot more of these pages, look through the webring directory. http://dir.webring.org/rw . Here is a random list of them from one user I found as an example: http://ss.webring.org/navbar?f=l;y=victoriavandyke;u=1001988...
A detailed description of webrings: http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/rng1/webring-dot-com-system.h...
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#166This is so great! I miss the Geocities Chic aesthetic. ;)
I missed my old website so much I made a new one in the 90s style a little while ago complete with HTML 3 accurate markup: http://mcanally.io
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#167This 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…
That's what the wayback machine is for! It's good for most personal pages back to about '99. https://web.archive.org/ It's awesome if you want to see which animated separator GIFs and crazy tiled backgrounds you were using.
Assuming the images ever load haha. This was me in 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/19981202215109/members.xoom.com/...
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
I need to write a love letter to Flash and how it made every website look like a christmas tree. There was so much life in there, it was a race to dynamism when we didn’t know how to make things dynamic. Now it’s all about flat design and static pages and don’t make the users learn a new UI and use the same CSS framework everybody else is using.
I don't miss Flash but the jaw-dropping impression when visiting Gabo for the first time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y-ESJS911c
That was some cutting edge stuff
The first 3 times you saw it ;)
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#169This 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
We need a wiby.me for any given time frame on archive.org.
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#170I used to have a Geocities containing weird bad poetry I wrote when I was a teenager.
I forgot about it, until years later I stumbled upon it again. I was embarrassed. I asked Yahoo to delete it.
But I'd forgotten the password, and I'd used fake personal details (wrong date of birth) to create the account, and I couldn't remember what the fake info was, so they refused to delete it because I couldn't verify that I was who I said I was.
What do I do? I hit on a solution. I decided to DMCA myself.
I sent Yahoo a DMCA takedown request for my old Geocities, and straight away it disappeared. Mission accomplished.