Oh man, I have mine in some archived files somewhere, I need to dig it up!
UNDER CONSTRUCTION animated gifs FTW
Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
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Re: Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
#322This 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…
Don't hate yourself for liking nu-metal.
I used to be a hardcore industrial fan
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#323HN'd: Site Temporarily Disabled The site you are looking for, boglin.iwarp.com has been temporarily disabled. You're Growing Congratulations, it looks like your site is expanding. Unfortunately this has caused your site to exceed the Bandwidth or Storage limits. Based on our Terms of Service, we have disabled the site until the end of the month(depends on site setup date), or until you upgrade to a higher hosting pac…
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It is a poor substitute though.
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#324I 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 miss it too. Also, these sites make me nostalgic and for some reason they look precious.
Re: Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
#325This 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…
Don't hate yourself for liking nu-metal. I used to be a hardcore industrial fan
I loved Limp Bizkit.
There, I said it. Now I'm too embarrassed to listen to them except in the privacy of my own car. "Like a CHAINSAW! Skin your ASS RAW!"
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#326It'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 h…
thank you so much for reminding me of zombocom. huge smile on my face when I opened the html5 link
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#327I 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 wa…
So they trusted that whatever was posted on the site was yours, but wouldn't believe the site was yours, crazy.
This needs to be a HN post of itself. Hello, people who reactively write blog posts for topical HN discussions, hello?
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#328It brings me back the memories of my first website created with Frontpage. I forgot the URL of the site but I found it after googling. I was amazed to see that it was still working. Here it is http://pranav.awardspace.com
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#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of web development curriculum these days tends to focus on writing apps with JavaScript, or learning a new library. HTML/CSS is still taught, but I feel the “HTML is not a real language” sort of drives people away.
A big difficulty is that HTML by itself doesn't give you good ways to define templates so it's a pretty dreadful task. Web components can change that in the future but until that it's pretty normal for developers to opt for tools that allow for creating a HTML fragment and building up HTML in another language. Imagine if we had to do the c calling convention song and dance on every function call...
There are plenty of simple templating options still out there. Twig, handlebars, and jekyll would all be good introductions in my opinion
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#330> IF YOU DON'T SIGN THE GUESTBOOK I MAY HAVE TO KILL YOU. HAVE A NICE DAY.
Well that was heart warming :)