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Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
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Re: Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
#352Here's mine: http://users.otenet.gr/~serafeim/old.htm - it's first version was from around 1998 when I was 16 years old so please don't be too judgmental :) It was just a bunch of static html pages that were uploaded through FTP to my internet provider's space. Funny thing - my internet provider still supports publishing home pages so the page remains active for around 20 years (!) with a bunch of revisions: http://u…
Jeez, otenet? They're still keeping the servers running?
Apparently yes - I don't think it's the same server from 1998 through...
I think that it's a smart move of them actually. There are lots of business (and simple users) that have set up their business web page through this service (here's a list of all accounts with pages there http://users.otenet.gr); most of these people people will want to keep their business or hobby web sites so they won't change internet providers and stick with otenet!
Re: Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
#353There are still many simple websites made today. They are certainly hard to find, but not gone.
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#354`Congratulations, it looks like your site is expanding. Unfortunately this has caused your site to exceed the Bandwidth or Storage limits. Based on our Terms of Service, we have disabled the site until the end of the month(depends on site setup date), or until you upgrade to a higher hosting package.` You mean a website from the 90's cant handle the HN hug of death?
This completes the 90s experience.
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Didn't MS Word even have a "export as HTML" option? I feel like I might have used that initially to build the first version of my CounterStrike clan's website.
They did. IIRC this site was made in Word: https://web.archive.org/web/20060414015434/http://easternsho... (on mobile, can't look at source to verify)
Yep, good old ``
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When talking about this, people often like to joke about the webdesign back then. But the personal websites had personality. Facebook profiles feel like government forms to me... "here, fill in this standardized array of fields with your personal data."
I need to write a love letter to Flash and how it made every website look like a christmas tree. There was so much life in there, it was a race to dynamism when we didn’t know how to make things dynamic. Now it’s all about flat design and static pages and don’t make the users learn a new UI and use the same CSS framework everybody else is using.
Dynamic stuff was in vogue when it was difficult to do. Same with rounded corners. Once stuff gets easy it goes out of fashion.
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#357This brings back memories, the days when geocities, and software like frontpage and dreamweaver were a thing. Most personal websites were exactly like this, word art, silly animated GIFs, "under construction" images, the author being optimistic about updating the site. Soemtimes you'd come across someone who'd made a site that more focussed around a special interest and they updated it often, a personal endevour that…
https://twitter.com/wwwtxt is always there to remind you of the good times of the Internet.
See their site for more 90s glory: http://wwwtxt.org/tagged/txt
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It looks great, but there is one question out of the box for me... What about updating the site? With IPFS this means a completely new hash unless you're running under (through?) IPNS, to point a domain at a new hash. If it's a new hash every time, you give up quickly because you don't want to propagate a new hash to any potential users every time (in the general case).
Maybe they can track the hashes and give us subdomains that redirect to the latest update?
That's exactly what we're planning on doing, we're going to add something like "username.eternum.io" or similar.
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I wasn't going to post this yet, but fuck it: I miss that era too, and I wanted to make it easier for people to publish their websites, so I made this with a friend: https://hearth.eternum.io/ It gives you a folder, like Dropbox. Drop some files in, and you have your own website (over IPFS). It's still early, but it should work well enough. I'd love to hear some feedback, if anyone tries it.
Any sample sites that are based on/use hearth? Is it like a normal http(s) protocol/type URL?
Yes, you can access it both over https (through the Eternum gateway) and through IPFS. Here's my personal site:
https://www.eternum.io/ipfs/QmRCWYEYU2WvLJBbj54k5p1AFHZ2TefW...
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I don't miss Flash but the jaw-dropping impression when visiting Gabo for the first time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y-ESJS911c
That is sweet! And then there was hell.com and associated sites. But I find no video :( Basically, once you paid $100 to repurchase your soul, you got lifetime access, and a hell.com email address :)
On an unrelated note, that makes me think, why facebook won't make a paid subscription version? I would dearly pay 10-20 bucks per year or whatever they are getting from me and never see ads or get my data shared with advertisers.