Ah I long for the days when you could just use a few frames and throw an image map together for graphical navigation...
A Love Letter to Geocities Sites
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#12Five notable good things that happened after 1999: 1. Obergefell 2. First Black President 3. Wikipedia 4. .....idk, maybe CRISPR? Deep Learning? Avatar: The Last Airbender? I'm drawing a blank here
Diseases like Hep C were actually cured (a personal favourite counter to people who think medicine doesn't cure anything any more). Plenty of good things have happened, it's just you can spin any tech improvement as 'actually dooming us all' if you want to.
You have to admit that the internet was more fun when it was enthusiasts expressing themselves, though. That’s the point of the post.
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#13I miss the ugly internet.
It was ugly but it was also theirs, I respected that.
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#14This is amazing. I miss the days when the web truly felt like a vast tapestry of people energetically letting their freak flags fly. Pave paradise, put up... an algorithm to maximize engagement.
Algorithms and the dev community today might freak out themselves if someone used one too many divs, or a bit to much JavaScript…
God help them if they saw the blink tag…
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#15I missed the Geocities time but my similar experience was MySpace. That my first introduction into any sort of code. I have no idea at the time what I was copying and pasting into my page. But was able to eventually learn and change things through it. Really no current platform that is used to allow this level of customization. At most it’s a banner or profile image to express yourself publicly.
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#16Ah I long for the days when you could just use a few frames and throw an image map together for graphical navigation...
Image maps, when Netscape would show you the pixel coordinates in the status bar. We're talking 1995?
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#17This is amazing. I miss the days when the web truly felt like a vast tapestry of people energetically letting their freak flags fly. Pave paradise, put up... an algorithm to maximize engagement.
Algorithms and the dev community today might freak out themselves if someone used one too many divs, or a bit to much JavaScript… God help them if they saw the blink tag…
It even has/had a name: DIVitis. ;)
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#18Ah I long for the days when you could just use a few frames and throw an image map together for graphical navigation...
Invisible 1px GIFs for the tables...
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Diseases like Hep C were actually cured (a personal favourite counter to people who think medicine doesn't cure anything any more). Plenty of good things have happened, it's just you can spin any tech improvement as 'actually dooming us all' if you want to.
You have to admit that the internet was more fun when it was enthusiasts expressing themselves, though. That’s the point of the post.
Yes :)
perhaps people here who haven't seen it should go check out https://neocities.org/
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#20Five notable good things that happened after 1999: 1. Obergefell 2. First Black President 3. Wikipedia 4. .....idk, maybe CRISPR? Deep Learning? Avatar: The Last Airbender? I'm drawing a blank here
Diseases like Hep C were actually cured (a personal favourite counter to people who think medicine doesn't cure anything any more). Plenty of good things have happened, it's just you can spin any tech improvement as 'actually dooming us all' if you want to.
Hep B is still not curable, and unfortunately, there is still a high stigma that it's sexual related disease while a vaccine exists.