A Love Letter to the Internet of Old

I legitimately forgot about that until just right now.

I would absolutely LOVE that count on some websites, just to see the traffic.

(2015)

Wow, haven't seen some of those graphics in a long long time. Beautiful. It's just missing the visitor counter and guestbook!

So much nostalgia for one day! Even Java Applet scrolling ticker simulations :).

It's amazing the think that birth and demise of Geocities defined an era. The collection of "Under Construction" banners made me think about how much the balance of creation vs consumption on the Internet changed over the years. As much as sites like Geocities and Myspace were eyesores, they represented creative freedom outside the confines of templates, news feeds and vanilla designs.

This makes me oddly nostalgic for the days of painstakingly creating animated GIFs frame-by-frame. My animated GIF magnum opus, ca. 1996:

https://www.damninteresting.com/temp/globe_spin3.gif