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Good medicine! I hope there are scores of us who see this and feel the immediate inspiration to recreate our old freak sites.
In created one a few years ago dedicated to a video game I played as a child: https://laserblast.neocities.org/ I had to use CSS to implement a equivalent.
Five 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
Five 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
I 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.
I started working on a social network that’s basically that era of Myspace but got sidetracked by other projects. I’ll probably get back to it around the holidays.
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You still can!
For free? That was what was so cool about that era of the internet. Shout out to all my angelfire ogs.
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That camera with the stack of flashbulbs tho! Used to see that sort of thing at weddings and other family events all the time in the 80s.
Yes they were fun. Especially when your older brother wakes you up in the middle of the night by flashing one on your face. I don’t remember them by the mid 80s. I remember them in the 70s and early 80s.
Ok, this is a long shot, but if any forum is likely to know, it's HN. I first got my start in web development when I was around 8 (early 2000s) thanks to a very large (or at least it was to an 8 year old) purple book on HTML. There was one passing mention of how animated GIFs might be added to websites with an IMG tag. The example of the animated GIF they showed (they exploded the frames) reminded me of this image [0…
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