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I already surfed the web (and built websites) in all of 1999. Not even misplaced nostalgia would make me want to go back and surf the web like 1999 again. I’ll keep my modern browser, CSS Grid, and 1 Gigabit Fiber Optic line thank you very much.
I love the idea and look forward to diving in. There's an anachronism in the first paragraph though... "check out my MySpace page"? MySpace didn't launch until 2003... Honest question, was this created by someone who was not actually on the web in 1999? Or maybe they're just taking artistic license with the "1999" idea?
For what it's worth, MySpace prior to officially being a social media site was created in '96 and officially launched as a internet network drive around 1999 cant remember the exact date , then was later sold to Murdoch and evolved more into a social media site later on but was already unofficially used as one. People shared music, short movies, porn. It didn't scale well as there was no de-duplication, files were st…
If you set your HTTP proxy to "theoldnet.com" with port 1999, and add an exclusion for "web.archive.org", then all your web pages will come from 1999, via the Wayback Machine. You can pick a different year by changing the port. Edit: It may have been hugged to death...
I like https://oldweb.today ... actually emulates old OS/browser combinations and proxies stuff from archive.org
It's funny because it's true. Instantly took me back to the late 90s. I remember trying to optimize images for 16k colors, and dealing with all the weird, disparate javascript versions.
16k colors, man! You must have been rich to be able to afford a machine being able to display all of these ;) I optimized for the official 216 color Web Safe Palette (“How many shades of neon green do we really need?”) well into the early 2000s.
For you younger members of the audience, this page is a great demonstration of how animated GIFs were originally used on the web and why a lot of us were so surprised when they made a big comeback in a totally different style in the 21st century.
It's sad to think that GIFs that still remain are movie/TV scenes that are clipped to use as reactions to online comments.
The word "blog" seems like a giveaway this isn't from a real archive. I don't remembering hearing it until years later.
Sadly nobody says "surf the web" any more
Related: https://www.my90stv.com/ Watch TV from the 90s.
Sadly nobody says "surf the web" any more
It's also been quite some time since I've heard anyone talking about the "information superhighway".