So much character on each page. Yes, they were simple, but they were all unique. I miss websites with personalities.
The Geocities Gallery
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#32Ahh my first website was a GeoCities page. They had a pretty awesome (for the time) HTML editing web app (CGI-BIN) and it was an amazing feeling.
Looks like my page at Tokyo/Towers isn't in the list. Looking at some of the content I think this archive is from after one of the buyouts that happened later.
So much Sailor Moon, Robotech and Dragon Ball Z... :D
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#33Oh wow.
I was just a kid in high school when I made my first HTML site on geocities. It's so cool to see it has still lived on in archives.
Flash content still alive and well... the javascript current year broke, probably y2k ... the geocities provided page view counter is also dead :)
It's also alarming how instantly without effort I recalled my ridiculously long address on there from memory.
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#34I miss the old internet.
Amen. I play and watch Pokemon with my son these days, and can't help but frequently be taken back in time to the mid-late 90's when websites were raw and so many pockets of the internet didn't have a lick of even bare bones CSS. Memorials like this incapacitate me with nostalgia.
Ditto. Now the Internet is just a centralised clock work orange.
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#35I miss the old internet.
Sometimes I think downloading an mp3 on mIRC was to me what taking a picture with a Polaroid was like to my great grandfather (or whatever tech was first coming out). Downloading anything means very little to my son, but I still remember the joy I got from downloading Tears_in_Heaven-Eric_Clapton.mp3 in some room on Dalnet.
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#36There was a Geocities like web creator called Neocities https://neocities.org/ I think it is still up.
It is up. You shouldn't post a link and not be bothered to check it.
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#37A while back I found a copy of my 1998-era and early 2000s websites on an old hard disk. The data were incomplete, so I went through a pretty fun process of recovering much of the missing information from Archive.org. Then I fixed the HTML to comply with more modern standards. I wrote up a blog post about it here: https://www.kloppenborg.net/blog/2019/07/04/restoring-maxis-.... I put the website (pure HTML) up here: https://maxis-ville.kloppenborg.net/
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#38By coincidence, I ran across this last night: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=cameronsworld.net https://www.cameronsworld.net/
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