Wow, I have forgotten just how ugly parts of the early web were. This theme is pure genius, it reminds me of the olden times :)
That it still is reactive makes it even more surreal.
Geocities Bootstrap Theme
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Re: Geocities Bootstrap Theme
#22At least it's responsive.
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#23If you showed a teenager this theme, I don't think they'd believe the web was ever that ugly.
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#24I had a visceral reaction after this page loaded. Well-done on the theme.
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#25"Site created with Notepad" hehe http://divshot.github.io/geo-bootstrap/img/test/notepad.gif
"The Right Way". This part made me especially LOL.
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#26I'm 17; was the internet ever actually this bad? That spinning "HOT" gif next to "Buttons" is giving me cancer.
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#27I'm 17; was the internet ever actually this bad? That spinning "HOT" gif next to "Buttons" is giving me cancer.
>was the internet ever actually this bad?
Yes.
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#28I'm 17; was the internet ever actually this bad? That spinning "HOT" gif next to "Buttons" is giving me cancer.
Oh yeah. Low points (for me) were when it seemed like every site had .
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#29I'm 17; was the internet ever actually this bad? That spinning "HOT" gif next to "Buttons" is giving me cancer.
Oh, yes. Oh, yes, yes.
However, it was only (mostly?) like that for personal/very-low-budget pages. It's not like all designers back then had suddenly lost their sense of aesthetic.
It's not very different from the MySpace profiles of a few years ago.
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#30I'm 17; was the internet ever actually this bad? That spinning "HOT" gif next to "Buttons" is giving me cancer.
The original website for Space Jam (the movie with Michael Jordan) is still up:
http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
Not quite as bad as the OP's link, but still--that was a high-profile professionally designed site in 1996.