It's not entirely gone: https://www.lingscars.com/
That's an epic design.
A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
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Re: A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
#32Nice site. I was there, it wasn't that great, most of it was about Monty Python or how much people hated Barney the Dinosaur. The modern internet is much more expressive for a great many more people that geocities ever was.
I'm curious what you mean by "expressive".
The modern internet is a far more consumer oriented experience than it was in the "old days", so I'm not quite sure what you mean.
Re: A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
#33And not to be forgotten- https://gifcities.org/
Re: A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
#34Insert self-plug for my site, which many say has a 1990s look
Re: A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
#35This 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
I’m ashamed to admit that I spent many hours making my own frame-by-frame gifs in the late 90s/early 2000s and while it’s (I assume) much easier to make a gif today I don’t exactly know how because I’ve never done it. I’m sure I could figure it out but between Giphy and Google every gif I’ve needed in the last 15 years has been at my fingertips.
Re: A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
#36For someone looking at this now it may not seem better than the internet you know. But it was.
Re: A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
#37Nice site. I was there, it wasn't that great, most of it was about Monty Python or how much people hated Barney the Dinosaur. The modern internet is much more expressive for a great many more people that geocities ever was.
I was also there. I don't really know what to say other than it wasn't mostly about Monty Python and Barney.
Edit: That last "What are you talking about?" part was pretty rude. Sorry about that.
Re: A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
#38Nice site. I was there, it wasn't that great, most of it was about Monty Python or how much people hated Barney the Dinosaur. The modern internet is much more expressive for a great many more people that geocities ever was.
The modern internet is much more expressive for a great many more people that geocities ever was.
Geocities even constrained by the technology of the day offered far more expressiveness than Facebook’s “fill in these fields and we’ll populate a standard template” approach does.
Re: A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
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#40Your site makes me want to connect to AOL to punt you guys. don't TOS me.