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Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
- capex 9y agoThe 'Sign Up' button got me. I thought I was signing up to your blog's subscription or something.
- shmerl 9y agoAh, the Netscape cube :)
- rpeden 9y agoWell, I certainly didn't expect this to make the front page. I just wish the guestbook still worked. :) I hadn't looked at the site in years and was actually surprised to find it still running. It's been on the same free hosting site for about 20 years.
- noonespecial 9y agoI tried to sign it! You should consider reviving it. Write it in perl. And lets us know its working again with a blink tag.
- freefal 9y ago<blink><marquee> Updated! </marquee></blink>
- tehlike 9y agohttp://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe<blink>tag http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe<blink>tag The history of blink :) good ol' days
- rpeden 9y agoI just updated it with a guestbook that works. :) First update the site has seen in 19 years.
- shakna 9y agoAnd everyone is already trying to break it.
- amatecha 9y agoYeah I wrote my own guestbook with Perl in the late 90's and it lasted the entire life of the sites I used it on. Perl is great for stuff like that and it's supported by all kinds of hosting environments!
- athenot 9y agoThe funny part is that even though the blink tag is gone, it can be reimplemented in CSS. :)
- giarc 9y agoI clicked on the FreeServers ad... hopefully you get paid :)
- rpeden 9y agoIt's free hosting from the 90s, so no money for me! They inject that ad in exchange for hosting the site. Hopefully they're getting their money's worth today.
- Meekro 9y agoI think many of us have something like this in our archives, but we lack your courage to show it! =)
- d0m 9y agoI wish I had an archive of it.. My first ever website when I was a kid was a dragon ball page with a bunch of .gif ;-)
- swampthinker 9y agoWhat a great time capsule, brings back old memories from Geocities and Angelfire websites.
- djhworld 9y agoOn the links page he links to his friends websites, one of them is a (now obviously gone) geocities page.
- dlbucci 9y agoOh my. My first site was also a little embarrassing, but this was 2011/2012, so it wasn't quite so flashy :) http://www.foodthechildren.com/default.php http://www.foodthechildren.com/default.php
- akuji1993 9y agoI actually like this a lot. Cool design
- bojackstorkman 9y agoThis is actually quite charming. Thanks for sharing it!
- gcatalfamo 9y agoIt’s awesomely cringy, as it should be, well done! I wish I still had mine!
- djhworld 9y agoThis 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 probably never got that many views, but my god sometimes you'd come across some gems.
- owlninja 9y agoThere is still hope: http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/ http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/
- CPLX 9y agoThis is... amazing...
- mglauco 9y agogreat job!
- jpmoyn 9y agoThat might be the best use of bootstrap I've seen.
- seeekr 9y agoThe smoothness of the marquee text is irritating. ;-) On a more serious note (haha), awesome theme. Tempted to think up something to build with it :-D
- rdiddly 9y agoI'm running a production site that lets you pick from 5 different Bootswatch themes... What's one more?! It's tempting...
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- ambrosite 9y agoI love it. I have an unreasonable amount of nostalgia for old websites like this. This is what the whole Web looked like back in the early days, before the usability and design gurus figured out the "best practices" and all sites started looking the same. It really was a wild new frontier. I'm not saying the Web was objectively better back then, but it sure was fun.
- cortesoft 9y agoI feel like it needs more blink and marquee tags, and a tiled background.
- ambrosite 9y agoI actually get a little excited when I see the blink and marquee tags still being used on current websites. (yeah I know, I'm psychotic!)
- icebraining 9y agoBlink is unfortunately dead: https://anonym.to/?https://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/08/a-light-has-gone-out-on-the-web/ https://anonym.to/?https://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/08/a-light-...
- cortesoft 9y agoSadly browsers don't support them anymore... you have to implement the behavior in javascript and/or css these days. Although if you search for 'blink tag' or 'marquee tag' on google, you get some fun easter eggs!
- ambrosite 9y agoI just found my first website (from January 2000) in the Wayback Machine. Not gonna post it here, but it's actually not that bad -- it had a consistent header, sidebar navigation, and a collection of nerdy sci-fi jokes that for some strange reason I thought were hilarious. :/
- lalos 9y agoI can sort of see how social networking sites evolved from these kind of websites where people just wanted to share part of their personal lives. Thanks for sharing.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- truesy 9y agoreminds me of mine ( http://reu.iwarp.com http://reu.iwarp.com ), also on iwarp :p
- tehlike 9y agoI just found mine from web.archive http://web.archive.org/web/20000529170547/http://karakedi.virtualave.net:80/indexu.html http://web.archive.org/web/20000529170547/http://karakedi.vi... There is supposed to be more content, but it's ridiculously broken under webarchive indexing Backgroundlar (wallpapers) Gif arşivi yenilendi (gif archive) Duvar Yazıları (some wall texts) YENİ 1 ICQ KULLANICISI(Toplam 17 Kullanıcı) (apparently i had a list of potentially Turkish users). İnter Emlak bölümünde kiralık ev arayan biri var (and my attempt for starting an online real estate site.
- ShaneWilton 9y agoMy current personal site is like this! www.shanewilton.com
- davekiss 9y agoThat midi file ... amazing
- taco_emoji 9y agoI really, really wish I could find my old Geocities website. It was mostly just a bunch of jokes I found around the Internet, and it'd be interesting to see what kind of stuff I found funny back in 1999. It might be sitting on an old hard drive in my basement (I never dispose of them with other equipment, instead telling myself I will someday wipe them manually and/or drill through the platters).
- seiferteric 9y agoThere is hope! archive.org has many of them. Here is mine from late 90s/early 00's: http://web.archive.org/web/20021130100312/http://www.geocities.com:80/Area51/Shire/6675/ http://web.archive.org/web/20021130100312/http://www.geociti...
- sedachv 9y ago> I never dispose of them with other equipment, instead telling myself I will someday wipe them manually and/or drill through the platters Don't do that! Hoard them to sell on eBay for hobby money later. There is a looming retrocomputing SCSI hard drive shortage. You can already get good prices for 50-pin SCSI drives. I don't know about ATA/IDE drives, but I imagine people trying to build "authentic" systems will drive demand in the next decade as well.
- amatecha 9y agoThe need for old SCSI/IDE drives is being filled by SD/microSD/CF adapters for those connector types :)
- sedachv 9y agoNot for everyone. I know a few people that prefer to run real hard drives in their hardware, especially when they show at vintage computer exhibitions. These people go out of their way to get old ones for spare parts and to repair what they have. Adapters are the last resort when the drives they need can only be obtained for astronomical prices or not at all.
- TekMol 9y ago<!-- '"AWS"' --> What does this line do?
- madrox 9y agoThis got me wondering if Matt's Script Archive was still around and lo and behold: http://www.scriptarchive.com/ http://www.scriptarchive.com/ Making interactive forms and CGIs was where I really started getting inspired to learn programming. Matt's scripts were some of the first perl I learned from. I basically transformed WWWBoard into a web-based chat back in '97.
- Reedx 9y agoSame here, I modified a lot of his scripts. His stuff was great and it was amazingly ubiquitous back then. If a site had an email form, forum or guestbook, chances are it was his work.
- logfromblammo 9y agoOh, my. That... ...brings back memories. I hope the younger folk appreciate all the web-design sins we committed before they were born, so that no one else need repeat them, ever again. I might still have a page or two left over from 1998 or thereabouts, on a PATA hard drive collecting cosmic rays in my garage. But no, you can't see them. I am too ashamed.
- Lukeas14 9y agoThat's awesome. I recently found my first site is up too(http://home.earthlink.net/~flighttime/justins/ http://home.earthlink.net/~flighttime/justins/). Still running on free hosting from my family's ISP from 20 years ago. Complete with a Dodgers' schedule from 1998.
- davekiss 9y agoOh, I'm all over this one. My OG KoolAid Fan Site. See if you can crack the secret club password. http://www.angelfire.com/oh5/koolaid/ http://www.angelfire.com/oh5/koolaid/
- dustinsterk 9y agoBecause you asked -- gates ;)
- zadams 9y agoI had something similar to your site in late 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/19981212032411/http://www.roha.maximumspeed.com:80/ https://web.archive.org/web/19981212032411/http://www.roha.m... I was able to clean it up a bit with Macromedia Fireworks in 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/19991004165614/http://roha.maximumspeed.com:80/ https://web.archive.org/web/19991004165614/http://roha.maxim... I don't remember exactly what I used to build these but it was probably some combination of AOLPress, Macromedia Dreamweaver, FrontPage, and Hotdog Professional FTP
- ereyes01 9y agoI can't sign the guest book, I get a 500 error. Please don't kill me! :-)
- wheelie_boy 9y agohttp://winblows.com http://winblows.com is available!
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoProbably overpriced given that it's a pretty classic URL. I'm surprised Microsoft didn't snap it up at some point just to tombstone it.
- Watabou 9y agoJust a small registration fee of $5400 [1]! [1]: https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results.aspx?domain=winblows.com https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results.aspx?...
- d--b 9y agooh man winblows.com
- duncanmeech 9y agowhat no <blink> tags?
- TheGRS 9y agoI remember some of those old free text image sites where you could make stuff like your title. Ah the good old days. I'm disappointed by your lack of frames btw, I feel like every site had frames in frames back in those days. :)
- deanclatworthy 9y agoEveryone used to use those in their forum signature. Was it flaming text or something? I can’t remember the site we all used! Edit: found it http://flamingtext.com/ http://flamingtext.com/
- TheGRS 9y agoYep that's the one! haha awesome.
- BinaryIdiot 9y agoSince everyone is sharing there's, here is mine from 2003 (I had one older than that but it was on a public library's domain that never got cached, so this is my second oldest site). It was responsive, sorta, and while it looks like crap it still works! https://web.archive.org/web/20030720195550/http://binaryidiot.com:80/ https://web.archive.org/web/20030720195550/http://binaryidio...
- fiskeben 9y agoTakes me back, but it loads way too fast :)
- culot 9y agoIt's like ANSI graphics that load instantly: it's painful to witness. Unless it's like ticker tape rolling out, it just ain't right.
- davchana 9y agoMine is also on same network, http://davinder.8m.net http://davinder.8m.net although now I have forgot the password. Current one is DavChana.com
- dpweb 9y agoMe (1994): I should buy up a bunch of english dictionary word .com domains, since they are so cheap, I cant lose money. Domains bought: 0 Bad memories.
- nogridbag 9y agoI almost registered Google.com using namezero. I could have changed history... Edit: After searching archive.org it looks like I was way off. Google.com was registered in 1997 while NameZero wasn't launched until ~1999/2000.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- exodust 9y agoWhy would you register 'google', it wasn't even a word in use?
- kokey 9y agoI think you must have been the inspiration for lingscars.com
- makmanalp 9y agoMine went down on geocities when my yahoo account expired from not logging into it and I was very sad.
- rcruzeiro 9y agoXOOM counter! I can't believe I forgot that XOOM existed back in the day
- nogridbag 9y agoWhen I was younger I taught myself HTML and started helping out on the XOOM support chat (forum?). They noticed my passion and sent me a job application form and seemed eager to bring me onboard. I was pretty excited and promptly completed it. Unfortunately I did not get the job. They had absolutely no idea I was only 14 years old and assumed I was much older. Man, I miss the innocent days of the internet.
- dddw 9y agoyeah man, they had a whole 10MB free hosting! way bigger than geocities! I had two accounts for a website, one with pictures and one with the html. I only have the html archived :(
- speedyrev 9y agoWish I could click and get Netscape
- Legion 9y agoI miss this era of the Internet. It represents a period of time where average people used the open Web to publish, rather than post on a corporation's platform. Obviously there's been plenty of development since then that I would not give back, but people favoring publishing their own sites rather than posting on social media is not incompatible with those developments. That part didn't need to be lost.
- TheGRS 9y agoMost who were just tinkering still posted to something like geocities, but I agree that spirit has been lost. What do they do in middle school / high school web development classes these days anyway? Kind of the appeal 20 years ago was that you could learn HTML pretty easily and whip up a simple personal website like this and have fun doing it. It didn't exactly "teach" much, at least in my experience, but it was inspirational in a lot of ways. When I took a class like that we used Dreamweaver (after writing some pages in notepad of course) and later Flash. Never learned Javascript back then, in fact our teacher encouraged us to check it out, but it wasn't part of the curriculum. It was mostly a class for anyone interested in dipping their toe in the web without any prior experience.
- vikiomega9 9y agogeocities simply made it "free" to publish on the web I thought? As opposed to being a platform that enforced complex policies
- TheGRS 9y agoSure, but you still had to host their advertisements. I would consider it a platform, but I also wouldn't compare it to facebook.
- saagarjha 9y agoA lot of web development curriculum these days tends to focus on writing apps with JavaScript, or learning a new library. HTML/CSS is still taught, but I feel the “HTML is not a real language” sort of drives people away.
- tsumnia 9y agoThere something enjoyable about all the bad homepages of the 90s. Pictures of people still seem "old" because the frequency you'd get to see how you looked was so stretched out. Even rpeden's first picture is an example of the general "hey, I'm here" pose. Good times, I can only imagine screenshots of square Minecraft houses will be what child of the 10's will look back at as their first dives into Computer-dom.
- piracykills 9y agoI miss the silly 90s microsoft hate, it actually made me look outside the MS bubble and learn other platforms.
- racl101 9y agoAwesome. Awesome to the max!
- rpeden 9y agoIn case anyone is really bored, I just updated the site for the first time in 19 years and swapped out the broken guestbook for one that works. =)
- abrookins 9y agoOh my god. This is incredible. The thing that brings me back to the 90s the most is the tiled background on the Links page. I remember agonizing over those textures so hard.
- econner 9y agoStanding strong under HN load. Which scaleable node js javascript react framework did you build this with?
- rpeden 9y agostaticfiles.js for the main page, and cgi.js for the guestbook! :)
- taurath 9y agoI miss the self expression that was possible when the barrier to entry was so low, and the link chains. It really was a "web" before search engines became the hub for everything. Granted, most people probably aren't gonna design anything well, because they're not designers. But for those who do, or at least try, even a color gives you more info into a person's personality than a facebook list of places they've worked and what school they went to.
- iamcasen 9y agoSo true! Search engines in a way have both invigorated, and ruined the web. They are great because now you can find anything, but they suck because they've removed a lot of the mystery. I loved hearing about cool websites via word-of-mouth. Starting there, and then just following a rabbit hole of links to places I've never been before. I suppose it's still possible if enough people agree to host sites that reject crawlers.
- BigChiefSmokem 9y agohttp://www.aolwatch.org/chronic2.htm http://www.aolwatch.org/chronic2.htm Hack the Planet!
- bojackstorkman 9y agoOh my gosh, I used to know a guy that went by 'puppies' or something that used to talk extensively about the "AOL progz" and I just got a flashback. This is incredible.
- anilshanbhag 9y agoOne thing I noticed: Xoom.com referenced in the webpage is now a large money transfer company
- WorldMaker 9y agoXOOM was a great free website host for several years before they sold the domain and broke SO many links.
- dizzystar 9y agoIt's not embarrassing at all! It's no different than picking on the clothes we used to wear back in the 90s. Everyone was neon, too large, and a bit too flashy. It's a product of the times. It's always kind of neat to look at these sites and see the creativity of them. I wasn't really on the internet back then, but I do remember just looking for all of those multi-color joke sites. I love it when these sites pop up here. I always enjoy showing people Zombo Com: http://www.zombo.com/ http://www.zombo.com/ Over time, Flash died and so they kept the spirit alive by creating an HTML5 version: https://html5zombo.com/ https://html5zombo.com/ Some things are just worth keeping around, just so that we don't lose our history and zeitgeist of earlier decades. We don't have photographs to remind us and if the old internet dies, we lose a huge chunk of what made today possible.
- sincerely 9y agoI was actually wondering about this. Say I know I'm going to die in the next couple months - if I wanted to put up a website and make sure it stayed online for as long as possible, what would be the best way to do that?
- minism 9y agothank you so much for reminding me of zombocom. huge smile on my face when I opened the html5 link
- notadoc 9y agoGreat nostalgia. What a fun and unique time for the web, truly.
- WorldMaker 9y agoReminds me of when I found a circa 1999 archive of my old site. Uploaded it here: http://worldmaker.net/wmo99/ http://worldmaker.net/wmo99/ It mostly inspired my current blog design when I realized I could do so much better at the pseudo-LCARS thing with flexbox and border-radius today instead of TABLEs and corner gifs I had to work with then. I'd like to think that 90s HS kid me would be quite proud at my current blog design.
- comradesmith 9y agoThis brings back memories, I found my site: (http://mypollsorelse.iwarp.com http://mypollsorelse.iwarp.com) and my friends site I did the markup for: (http://steaksteaksteak.iwarp.com http://steaksteaksteak.iwarp.com) Honestly I'm amazed these are still up, it's been almost 20 years and I don't think there's a chance I'll remember the password or email I used. P. S. I was 12 when I wrote it, just ignore the ridiculous content
- amatecha 9y agodude, yes! I love that spinning Netscape cube! One of my favorite gifs from the era. That and the obligatory "Made with a Macintosh" found at the bottom of so many websites back then :)
- verylittlemeat 9y agoMan those overexposed and noisy webcam photos really take me back. I have a whole folder from about 15 years ago that look exactly the same.
- um304 9y agoThis is the best icon I have seen in a while: http://boglin.iwarp.com/iexploit.gif http://boglin.iwarp.com/iexploit.gif
- dpio 9y agoMaybe a little embarrassing, but overall beautiful just as a reminder of how innocent the internet, and most people on it, were back then.
- qrbLPHiKpiux 9y agothis one still works http://www.heavensgate.com/ http://www.heavensgate.com/
- FeteCommuniste 9y agoSome of the later stages of mine are archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20020915000000*/http://www.geocities.com:80/mr_jivebojingles/ http://web.archive.org/web/20020915000000*/http://www.geocit... Goes from dark and pompous to enigmatic. Its original purpose (created in 1997 or 1998?) was a Final Fantasy VII fan page, but it seems that stage of it is long lost.
- amatecha 9y agoI recently remembered I still somewhere have printouts of all the Geocities signup/setup instructions from their website in 1995... Will have to dig those out of storage and post them up sometime. Would be a neat little view into the past, for sure!
- gdubs 9y agoIf you're into this, the final season of Halt & Catch Fire was pretty great as far as reliving the web of the mid 90s goes.
- kaushiks 9y agoThe only thing this page is missing is a marquee element :-)
- suddensleep 9y agoThis reminds me of my first Geocities website: a full repository of KoRn's lyrics to date. It's not that this didn't exist elsewhere on the internet (indeed it did, as of course I used these other sites as source material), but nowhere seemed to have the exact red-text-on-black-background look I was going for at the time. The most excruciating part of this memory is not that I worshipped a nu-metal band, but instead that I hadn't yet discovered the magic of copying and pasting text. That's right: everything, from the lyrics themselves to the HTML tags, were typed manually by yours truly into the raw HTML editor. I shudder to think how quickly I'd be fired today if I hadn't learned how to properly use a modern keyboard.
- exolymph 9y agoThis is so endearing. I love your younger self's commitment to the cause of KoRn.
- milesvp 9y agoI actually still force myself type out anything that's important enough for me to know it or understand it. Text, code, doesn't matter. Some things I'll even write by hand if I really think it's important enough for me to remember.
- magissima 9y agoPersonally I can't think of anything that warrants that treatment more than KoRn lyrics.
- degenerate 9y agoA.D.I.D.A.S.
- mratzloff 9y agoImagines young suddensleep meticulously typing each lyric... Boom na da mmm dum na ema Da boom na da mmm dum na ema GO! So... fight something on the... dum na ema Fight... some things they fight So... something on the ...dum na ema Fight... some things they fight Fight... something on the... dum na ema No... some things they fight Fight... something of the... dum na ema Fight... some things they fight Part of me... Oh...
- amatecha 9y agoSuddenly remembering when Geocities was so new, their ToS required that you manually place a banner image and link back to geocities.com on your site. It wasn't auto-injected server-side. They actually would browse through the sites and manually verify you link back to them. I remember how affronted I felt when they started doing their auto-frame/banner thing server-side. haha :)
- bhouston 9y agoMy 20 year old website, now archived on oocities. A nested mess of tables and inline styles... http://www.oocities.org/siliconvalley/peaks/3657/hyper-index.html http://www.oocities.org/siliconvalley/peaks/3657/hyper-index... http://www.oocities.org/siliconvalley/peaks/3657/ben-geek.html http://www.oocities.org/siliconvalley/peaks/3657/ben-geek.ht...
- rpdillon 9y agoThis made me realize my old bootleg trading site is probably somewhere, and sure enough, I found it! http://web.archive.org/web/20010405110002/http://dillon2112.tripod.com:80/index.html http://web.archive.org/web/20010405110002/http://dillon2112.... Reading through all my banter, I'm most surprised that I was trading MP3s via MySpace in 2000, and that apparently it was first known as FreeDiskSpace.com, which explains why I used it. http://web.archive.org/web/20010417000314/http://www.freediskspace.com:80/ND_Home.asp http://web.archive.org/web/20010417000314/http://www.freedis...
- mansilladev 9y agoThere's nobody that used more drop-shadow and Kai's Power Tools than me.
- culot 9y agoIcing on top of that Papyrus logo.
- javiramos 9y agoEpic! Had totally forgotten about ICQ!
- wand3r 9y ago> A fairly new pic of me. I don't look like a dumbass anymore!! hahhaha classic nostalgia.
- erickhill 9y agoI love how everyone if filling in the Guest Book! I indulged as well. ;) Man... guest books...
- rpeden 9y agoSo far it's about 5 trolls for every real post. :)
- canadaduane 9y agoThere is a movement, called "tilde communities", to bring back personal pages and BBS-like communities. I'm part of http://tilde.town http://tilde.town for instance. It's quite remarkable how the simple restriction of community size makes for an entirely different experience than, say, twitter or facebook. Knowing that I will re-encounter the same folks, and that I am not yet their friends (although we are friendly) creates an interesting cultural constraint that feels much more like a small town experience. We talk about cats, fun software ideas, and sex changes. We exchange messages on a local bulletin board. We play text games. It's fun and small, and more meaningful somehow.
- jmadsen 9y agoI'm trying to page you on Yahoo but not getting an response :-( EDIT: oh, I see your note "my yahoo pager is screwed too"
- rpeden 9y agoI actually just tried to sign in to it, but it wants to do 2FA using an e-mail address I didn't even remember I had. So I guess I'm permanently locked out of that Yahoo account. :(
- scrumper 9y agoPerfect, thanks for sharing! My first one, 1997 I think, had a photo of my face (complete with ‘curtains’ hairstyle) that was an imagemap. Click my ears and you get a page about the music I liked; eyes were movies; forehead was books and so on. Terrible cringeworthy perfection. It was on my university network so long gone now. I doubt I’d recognize the skinny shit in the photo anyway.
- zeade 9y ago<blockquote>, <blockquote>, <center>... checks out.
- spapas82 9y agoHere's mine: http://users.otenet.gr/~serafeim/old.htm 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://users.otenet.gr/~serafeim/ http://users.otenet.gr/~serafeim/ -- too bad the cgi-bin counter is not working anymore :(
- StavrosK 9y agoJeez, otenet? They're still keeping the servers running?
- spapas82 9y agoApparently 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); 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!
- SlowBro 9y agoOP if it makes you feel any better, the original Space Jam (movie) website is still online, and it still looks like the '90s took a dump all over it. Loaded quickly on my 28.8Kbps modem. https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
- alanh 9y agoI wonder if you got the animated red dot GIF from bellsnwhistles.com. I sure used their gifs on my first website (sadly lost to time, courtesy of angelfire deleting unpopular pages + a particularly nasty Windows bug that deleted my local copy)
- matte_black 9y agoAh, I remember the days when I was a young child cruising messageboards. When I found one that didn’t escape HTML text, I would copy and paste the entire source code of another website into the message box and watch as I destroyed the forum by dropping an entire website into it.
- oneplane 9y agoThis is what internet is to me. What internet is today isn't really 'internet' anymore. Well at least not from my perspective.
- ZanrielJames 9y agoAre we still on Web 2.0? I'm guessing you're referring to Web 1.0. I find it amusing that nobody called it Web 1.0 even after they started talking about 2.0.
- thomastjeffery 9y agoI'm looking forward to Web 3.0, when we can have retro sites like this, but on decentralized platforms so we don't have to worry as much about hosting and bandwidth.
- munificent 9y agoHere's my old website: http://stuffwithstuff.com/robot-frog/index.html http://stuffwithstuff.com/robot-frog/index.html At some point (alas!) I lost the domain robot-frog.com, so note that some of the top-level links on the site won't go to the right place. All the relative links should work, though. The name of the is the site is kind of silly. I was typing random emoticons in an email and came up with [:|], which looked like a robot frog to me.
- rpeden 9y agoThanks for sharing that, Bob. I really like your site's design. I also think that the name of the site is more awesome than silly. Not that silly is bad. A bit of silly makes life much more enjoyable! :)
- jamesmccann 9y agoThe styling of the nav and pages here looks strangely refreshing, props.
- nofilter 9y agoI love the minimalism of the site! Something you don't see often anymore.
- nickjj 9y agoMy old geocities site from the 90s is long gone but from what I remember it had: - The midi version of the exorcist theme song[0] that autoplayed - That old animated HR of a stickman peeing onto an internet explorer button - Various 2600 magazine related documents and links - A whole bunch of VB6 apps I made and their source code - A guestbook / hit counter [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1PH_Y8Xn4g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1PH_Y8Xn4g BUT here's my first freelance web design site from 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20010201051000/http://darkelement.com:80/ http://web.archive.org/web/20010201051000/http://darkelement... The copy on that site is next level cringe worthy. Also, does anyone remember the original Andy's Art Attack when it came to design? http://www.brucelevick.com/andyart/ http://www.brucelevick.com/andyart/. Make sure to click into one of the pages because the sidebar was epic for its time.
- greymeister 9y agoLearning how to host midis and then <object embed autoplay=true> was literally magic to 9th grade me.
- orasis 9y agoThis really made me smile. Thank you.
- Keyframe 9y agoHah, ICQ! I'm slightly disappointed that html tags aren't all in CAPS. Something nice about sites we've used in the 90s, not like these days where DHTML took over.
- 11thEarlOfMar 9y agoWhat strikes me is that this was the technology on which the .com bubble was founded.
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- tallblondeguy 9y agohttp://brendanberkley.com/first-site/brendan.html http://brendanberkley.com/first-site/brendan.html A lot of gems in mine: - "Gar Trek" shirt on a Star Wars site - Phantom Menace my favorite Star Wars movie (ask me anything) - Mamma and Dogpile, CDNow, and Pepsi World - JavaScript Alert!
- flamtap 9y agoI cannot express my disappointment in the "The Ultimate Quiz" being unavailable. http://brendanberkley.com/first-site/ultimatequiz.html http://brendanberkley.com/first-site/ultimatequiz.html
- tallblondeguy 9y agohttp://brendanberkley.com/first-site/underconstruction.gif http://brendanberkley.com/first-site/underconstruction.gif
- rsbartram 9y agoMy site has been remade multiple times since the 90's. I love publishing on my own site with 100% control over what, when and how I publish material and information. We need to protect this individual ability. Any suggestions for my site let me know I always appreciate feedback positive or negative. https://latechnews.org https://latechnews.org
- urs2102 9y agoI remember guestbooks! This is awesome, I remember making my Guestbook in fifth grade to take song and music video requests I would embed on a separate page. All you're missing is an animated mouse and a hit counter. This really made me smile.
- lambda 9y agoAh, the nostalgia. Mine is no longer online, but was pretty well archived by the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20010607062747/http://world.std.com:80/~lambda/brian/ https://web.archive.org/web/20010607062747/http://world.std.... Really makes me cringe to read some of that text, but that was high school. Oh, and even more eye-bleeding is the page I ran for a Nomic that I was in, and webmaster (sorry, "Secretarylet of the Revolution in charge of Web Pages") for: http://www.nomic.net/deadgames/macronomic/ http://www.nomic.net/deadgames/macronomic/. I don't know what I was thinking when picking that particular shade of red; red made sense, but I'm sure that even with the palettes available back then, I could have picked one a bit less painful.
- peterwwillis 9y agoA millennial friend is studying the early internet in college. I asked them if they had discussed webrings yet. "What's a webring??" Oh boy... If you want a lot more of these pages, look through the webring directory. http://dir.webring.org/rw http://dir.webring.org/rw . Here is a random list of them from one user I found as an example: http://ss.webring.org/navbar?f=l;y=victoriavandyke;u=100198821810103173;comid= http://ss.webring.org/navbar?f=l;y=victoriavandyke;u=1001988... A detailed description of webrings: http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/rng1/webring-dot-com-system.htm http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/rng1/webring-dot-com-system.h...
- jeremymcanally 9y agoThis is so great! I miss the Geocities Chic aesthetic. ;) I missed my old website so much I made a new one in the 90s style a little while ago complete with HTML 3 accurate markup: http://mcanally.io http://mcanally.io
- skissane 9y agoI used to have a Geocities containing weird bad poetry I wrote when I was a teenager. I forgot about it, until years later I stumbled upon it again. I was embarrassed. I asked Yahoo to delete it. But I'd forgotten the password, and I'd used fake personal details (wrong date of birth) to create the account, and I couldn't remember what the fake info was, so they refused to delete it because I couldn't verify that I was who I said I was. What do I do? I hit on a solution. I decided to DMCA myself. I sent Yahoo a DMCA takedown request for my old Geocities, and straight away it disappeared. Mission accomplished.
- Firerouge 9y agoSo they trusted that whatever was posted on the site was yours, but wouldn't believe the site was yours, crazy.
- clebio 9y agoThis needs to be a HN post of itself. Hello, people who reactively write blog posts for topical HN discussions, hello?
- dchest 9y agoDMCA takedown process is specifically created so that hosting providers don't need to verify any claims in the notice, they only need to take the content down and notify the user who published it, so that the user could provide a counter-notice (in which case, they bring the content back up).
- unethical_ban 9y agoHave any details on that? There is a site on the net that has some of my teen prose. Really bad. Really, bad.
- notahacker 9y agoYour guestbook is filling up. A reminder that nothing about social media is truly new...
- lvoudour 9y agoGreat stuff, I miss the old web sometimes I was reminded by your post that I had a game dev website back in 2000-2001 but I couldn't remember the url. After half an hour of google-foo I managed to find it. Tried wayback machine and, unbelievable, it's archived! If anyone is interested in visual basic gamedev in DirectX 7 written by a 19 year old non-native english speaker, here you go: https://web.archive.org/web/20011201013648/http://www.ancientcode.f2s.com:80/ https://web.archive.org/web/20011201013648/http://www.ancien... Scroll to the bottom to find the glorious Best viewed at 1024x768 with IE 4.0 and above Good times :)
- kaycebasques 9y agoConsidering that this is #1 on HN, that free, 20-year-old server has some damn good uptime!
- wybiral 9y agoAll we really needed were embedded comments on pages and RSS feeds. It's sad that everything turned into bland walled gardens incapable of interaction between services. Shakes fist at MySpace and Facebook Edit: What I mean by that is you used to be able to subscribe to RSS feeds from nearly anywhere that published things. But now people are publishing inside of these services that don't really offer access so you have to check Facebook, Twitter, etc, to get updates. Sure there are notification systems now but it's definitely not as flexible.
- coob 9y agoNice job Gumby
- capsulecorp 9y agoGUMBBBYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
- fitzroy 9y agoHere's a photo page from mine in 1997 (still sitting on my hard drive). http://seanfitzroy.com/old/1997/fantasyfest/index.html http://seanfitzroy.com/old/1997/fantasyfest/index.html A GIF "writes out" the title on a notepad background image. Then it "refreshes" to the actual photo page — but it's timed for a 56k modem so the text takes about 10 seconds to appear. At least it taught me Photoshop and ImageReady. All hand-coded (poorly) in Notepad on Windows 95. Sorry for the Comic Sans.
- jupp0r 9y agoIt certainly looked a lot better back then when default site backgrounds were eye-friendly gray.
- taneem 9y agoI had a page up on the iwarp.com domain too from the late 90s! http://counterwave.iwarp.com/ http://counterwave.iwarp.com/ -> it was pure Flash (Flash 4) so it doesn't really even work anyway. It was so much fun. I miss those days.
- opsiprogram 9y agoHahaha the amount of attempted XSS and SQL injection in the guest book...
- msie 9y agoNo mention here of how Chrome's HTTPS policy will affect these sites? I'm surprised!
- jgh 9y agoI was looking at your pics and was like "I think I went to high school with this guy". Turns out I went to high school with you.
- rpeden 9y agoI think there are at least a few of us here on HN! Feel free to send me an e-mail if you'd like. It's in my HN profile.
- bojackstorkman 9y agoIt is 2018 so this is a good time to have this debate. Geocities > Angelfire > Homestead > Lycos Tripod. I remember holding this opinion but cannot remember why, or if it was actually informed by anything.
- goshx 9y agoNo MIDI autoplay? :(
- mcs_ 9y agoMiss you, <td> vertically and horizontally center... that was a real accomplishment
- jedicoder107 9y agoUnlimited WEB SPACE, EMAIL & CHAT ?? I better get on this one quick..
- amasad 9y agoKids, btw, still like to build websites like this. At Repl.it we have a lot of teenagers using our product. Here are some of my favorite 90s style website: - Turn the volume one for this one and peep the marquee in the title: http://erikflynn.repl.co/Website/ http://erikflynn.repl.co/Website/ - A music website "imma be link yall up with some good playlists" http://lexiecampbell.repl.co/Music/ http://lexiecampbell.repl.co/Music/ - JACK WEBSITE: with a fun animated background and his "bangin tunes" http://jackburgess123.repl.co/JACK-WEBSITE/ http://jackburgess123.repl.co/JACK-WEBSITE/ - "HOW TO BE A BOSS AT FORTNITE" http://daremccloskey_t.repl.co/FortniteTips/ http://daremccloskey_t.repl.co/FortniteTips/ - Space website: learn about blackholes, dark matter, and more http://laser431.repl.co/Real-Space-Website/ http://laser431.repl.co/Real-Space-Website/ - A kid's website with resume and updates 90s style http://anonimoussyed.repl.co/My-website/ http://anonimoussyed.repl.co/My-website/ - Shitposting 90s style http://rmalagon.repl.co/Memes/ http://rmalagon.repl.co/Memes/ A lot more where that came from, if people are interested I can put up a page so you can surf! UPDATE -- here are some games: - Car Wars (this was trending on reddit) http://sbenderschii.repl.co/Car-Wars/ http://sbenderschii.repl.co/Car-Wars/ - Hard pong game (use your mouse to move) http://echocoding.repl.co/Project-Classic-Pong/ http://echocoding.repl.co/Project-Classic-Pong/ - Snake game http://noahcapucilli_shata.repl.co/Javscript-snake/ http://noahcapucilli_shata.repl.co/Javscript-snake/ - Cookie clicker http://prestonsia.repl.co/Cookie-Clicker/ http://prestonsia.repl.co/Cookie-Clicker/ - Bounce blob http://birduugaming.repl.co/BounceBlob/ http://birduugaming.repl.co/BounceBlob/ - Flappy ball http://gvanminsel.repl.co/flappy-ball/ http://gvanminsel.repl.co/flappy-ball/ To view source it's repl.it/@<user subdomain>/<pathname> e.g. http://birduugaming.repl.co/BounceBlob/ http://birduugaming.repl.co/BounceBlob/ -> https://repl.it/@birduugaming/BounceBlob https://repl.it/@birduugaming/BounceBlob
- debaserab2 9y ago>I'M 13 AND CURRENTLY LEARNING 3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES, C++, CSS AND HTML. >I OWN A CSGO CHEAT THAT YOU CAN BUY FOR 3 POUNDS A MONTH. >I'M UPDATING IT ALOT AND NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN BANNED FROM IT. little shit!
- rpeden 9y agoThanks for sharing those! I'm having a lot of fun going through all of them.
- Accacin 9y agoSomeone showed me this for searching people’s personal websites: https://wiby.me/ https://wiby.me/
- highstep 9y agowhen I was 14 in 1994 it made sense to make my first website about dog poo. The site disappeared in 97 after a harddrive died and I lost interested dog poo... but then 6 years later I managed to recover it from the waybackmachine: http://dogpoopage.com/ http://dogpoopage.com/
- Lammy 9y agoI found a text only backup of my Pokémon fan site from 1999 and spent some time piecing all the images back together from Archive and Reocities. Thank goodness for all the hotlinking I did back then :) It lives in all its frameset glory at https://cooltrainer.org/oldbpu/ https://cooltrainer.org/oldbpu/
- INTPenis 9y agoI think the thing I miss the most from this time was being part of a very large, global, counter culture of sorts. Compared to today we were underground. The few of us who participated in online forums and groups. I remember Yahoo groups and thinking about how revolutionary it was to let anyone create their own "space" for other people online. I also remember some e-friends from the US creating an open source version of it and realizing that anything can be done.
- katastic 9y agoI'm disappointed that the linked winblows.com is gone.
- DrScump 9y agoThe HN "Hug of Death" strikes again (as of 0300 GMT 3 March): "... this has caused your site to exceed the Bandwidth or Storage limits..."
- mjones517 9y agoOh geeze... This brings back memories. I didn't do Geocities. I took an HTML class at my local ISP (yes that existed). This was the earliest version I could find on Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/19991006132018/http://www.richnet.net:80/~mystical/ https://web.archive.org/web/19991006132018/http://www.richne... It's profoundly terrible, but I'm still in web development, so there's that...
- chrissnell 9y agoMy personal site is nowhere near as funny as the e-commerce site that my dad and I started that was built off of his brick-and-mortar bicycle store chain. Dad edited the site with some horrible text editor. There was no shopping cart; you would email or fax your order form to us with your credit card on it. People still loved it and we were getting dozens of orders a day within a couple of weeks of launching. https://web.archive.org/web/19961030052323/http://www.bikeworld.com:80/ https://web.archive.org/web/19961030052323/http://www.bikewo...
- ma2rten 9y ago"bikeworld.com© makes extensive use of Netscape's advanced features... We recommend a direct Internet connection and a 28.8 Modem for optimum viewing."
- guhan_ganesh 9y agoAs someone from India, whose internet exposure started with facebook in late 2000s, your site and other sites shared on this post by HN community are fascinating.
- lithermans 9y agoUhm, you bandwidth limit has been exceeded for your host.
- Brajeshwar 9y agoMissed the early 90s; started late in 1999. However, I remember the fun Flash era in the early 21st century. I played my part religiously (my name was on the credit roll of the Flash IDE). Published my personal site[1] for the first time in 2001, with designs inspired by the likes of 2Advanced, Ultrashock. It went on for few years. I remember those days where design award was a thing. My site used to win quite a bit. :-) I also remember using Blogger[2] to publish to my site via their "Publish to FTP" feature. I remember using a different comment system because Blogger didn't have its own. Later, moved to Movable Type[3]. Beta tested WordPress[4] at a time when it had no option to create pages. I think, by 2003/2004, my website became just a full-fledged blog, powered by WordPress and it remained to this day. The early 00's was, indeed, an era of lots of fun and experiments. 1. https://web.archive.org/web/20020515000000*/brajeshwar.com https://web.archive.org/web/20020515000000*/brajeshwar.com 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service) 3. https://www.movabletype.org/ https://www.movabletype.org/ 4. https://wordpress.org/ https://wordpress.org/
- sillysaurus3 9y agoHN'd: Site Temporarily Disabled The site you are looking for, boglin.iwarp.com has been temporarily disabled. You're Growing 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.
- dennisgorelik 9y agohttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Aboglin.iwarp.com http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Abogli... It is a poor substitute though.
- keithnz 9y agoI got me one of those embarassing homepages from the 90s too http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~keithn/ http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~keithn/ can't even run my java apps anymore :/
- mrb 9y agoCache: http://archive.is/s1Kbs http://archive.is/s1Kbs
- dikiaap 9y agoThanks. Just looking for this.
- danwalmsley 9y agoThis was mine from 1996, and it wasn't even my FIRST site - this was the "redesign": http://www.goldsounds.com/yoyo/ http://www.goldsounds.com/yoyo/
- rpeden 9y agoFlames, dripping blood, and an under construction sign. Definitely from the 90s! Thanks for sharing :)
- movedx 9y agoI love this. It's so cool. Bring back this kind of Internet.
- staticassertion 9y agoThis is the coolest fucking website.
- cecilpl2 9y agoAt one point (96/97), I ran an informational website devoted to Final Fantasy 4. It's still around, surprisingly. http://cecilpl_david.tripod.com/ http://cecilpl_david.tripod.com/
- pcunite 9y agoThe OP's site is how I remember that era. Using a toothbrush now to scrub my eyes with. Thanks.
- throwawaycanada 9y agoGod I wish Geocities never went down. What a lost trove of websites.
- mxpxrocks10 9y agoNice job, Ry ;)
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- mikerathbun 9y agoAt first I was cringing, but then felt nostalgic for the days before Facebook and other social gathering sites homogenized people's Internet presence.
- jaunkst 9y agoWow, love it. Mine was terrible too. I eventually got into some pretty crazy website designs that were completely an expression of art and UX experiments. We had a sort of underground network of other similar websites that gave a since of community.
- quickthrower2 9y agoWhy all the Micro$oft hate? J++! Those were the days.
- rpeden 9y agoTo be fair, I was 17 and fighting the man was the cool thing to do. :) I see you're a fan of Elm. Me too! I'm also slowly working on an Elm side project. Sadly, I don't think it'll ever get as much attention on HN as my 1999 website has over the past few hours.
- quickthrower2 9y agoWhat's your side project? I started writing a budgeting app but it's too much for a single person side project. I might release a early alpha version out there on Github and hope other people join in.
- mike 9y agoI'd be interested in this, please do drop me an email if you do put this on GitHub. Thanks.
- dikaio 9y agoYou’re very brave showing that!
- TipVFL 9y agoWhen I was in high school I created a website just to annoy my cranky teacher, Mr. Davis. The concept was simple, I got people to constantly ambush the teacher in the middle of classes and hug him while I took pictures. Then I posted them to the website, Hug Mr. Davis, along with really dumb text. It got a little out of hand, there's a picture on there of a football player tackling Mr. Davis in the middle of a lesson (I think he got suspended). Mr. Davis threatened to sue me if I didn't take the website down. I left it up, but became the only student at my high school banned from bringing cameras to school. http://www.oocities.org/hugmrdavis/ http://www.oocities.org/hugmrdavis/ (click picture to enter)
- azinman2 9y agoThat’s hilarious and I’m so glad you did that!!!
- jypepin 9y agooh wow im sure he'd love to see that now if he's still alive!
- brokenmachine 9y agoHappy pants?
- TipVFL 9y agoLike I said, really dumb text.
- crtasm 9y agoInstagram.com should be replaced with this page.
- bartread 9y agoLiterally made my day - thanks for posting this.
- mherrmann 9y agoIsn't that bullying? He doesn't look too happy in some of those pictures.
- ManOfLand 9y agoRIP Missi and Adam's pages :'(
- jenscow 9y agoMine just made IE crash or blue screen... Like most pages did, I guess... But mine was intentional.
- microwavecamera 9y agoDoes look good in Netscape though... https://i.imgur.com/zpZh3HW.png https://i.imgur.com/zpZh3HW.png
- d33k4y 9y agoTbh, I was hoping for an embedded midi file with no sound control. :) My favourite part of this experience was my reaction to seeing your ICQ number. It was 'dang, he was a couple thousand ahead of me.' Somehow I still remember my ICQ number, though I don't think I've used it since 2001.
- odammit 9y agoI wonder how much winblows.com is going for. Edit: I’ll update in 24 hours when a BuyDomains expert responds to my spam email address.
- odammit 9y ago$5,388. Not worth the humor of owning it.
- jazzychad 9y agoSee also http://tilde.club http://tilde.club for some new-old fun
- killjoywashere 9y agoThat is some serious linkrot you have there.
- CydeWeys 9y agoHere's an old personal site of mine linking to even older ones (in reverse chronological order): http://www.cydeweys.com/archive/archives.html http://www.cydeweys.com/archive/archives.html There's blinks, marquees, under construction banners, hit counters, webrings, background MIDIs, even frames and a navigation image map.
- ixtli 9y agoI unironically love this.
- mastazi 9y agoI had a couple of websites in the late 90's but unfortunately they seem to have gone forever, since the hosting was part of my modem subscription. Sadly, it seems that the Internet Archive did not pick them up.
- mygo 9y agoHow the heck is this website from a decade ago more secure than LinkedIn?
- apeace 9y agoYou had CAPTCHA. Very advanced for the '90s.
- crobertsbmw 9y agoYour link to yamahausa is mistyped as yahahausa.com. But then again, most of the links are dead. Carry on!
- drmpeg 9y agoI still have my 1994 looking website on-line. Because of the content, it still averages 310 GB of traffic a month (if I'm to believe awstats). http://www.w6rz.net http://www.w6rz.net
- rayalez 9y agoNote - works great on mobile =)
- 908087 9y agoMakes me miss the pre-Goog/Face-ification version of the web, when people created sites because they wanted to, and not because they thought they could monetize them or use them to gather private data.
- pmarreck 9y agoOh man, I have mine in some archived files somewhere, I need to dig it up! UNDER CONSTRUCTION animated gifs FTW
- pranavpr 9y agoIt brings me back the memories of my first website created with Frontpage. I forgot the URL of the site but I found it after googling. I was amazed to see that it was still working. Here it is http://pranav.awardspace.com http://pranav.awardspace.com
- rqs 9y ago> IF YOU DON'T SIGN THE GUESTBOOK I MAY HAVE TO KILL YOU. HAVE A NICE DAY. Well that was heart warming :)
- pdanford 9y agoI still have a 90's page online. Not sure what that says about me, but I like it. The supercomputers section shows a unique time for the NCSA. There was that, and Mosaic was in development next door. Nostalgia wave breaks... http://www.pdanford.com:800 http://www.pdanford.com:800
- supbitcoin 9y agohaha kiss of death of HN
- unixhero 9y ago"You are growing" hahha
- danjc 9y agoOn a somewhat related note, be interested to hear if others have kept their old source code. I started coding on a ZX Spectrum, moved to QBasic on a 286 and then later to Turbo Pascal. I remember all my TP code being on a single 1.44mb disk which somehow is now in GDrive, the earliest is from '99. Every now and again, I enjoy firing up some of those old programs or looking at the source code and handmade bitmaps. I think I most miss the freedom of just writing anything I felt like with no obligations to anyone.
- james-skemp 9y agoI'm sure I have code on a computer somewhere, or more likely a burned CD, but what I have checked in so far: https://github.com/JamesSkemp/HyperJumpNet-Sites https://github.com/JamesSkemp/HyperJumpNet-Sites https://github.com/JamesSkemp/ReallyOldCrap https://github.com/JamesSkemp/ReallyOldCrap EDIT: If anyone knows of good topics to add on these so that they can be viewed with other really old ones, I'd be interested.
- gdubs 9y agoDuring this era I had a copy of Hotwired Style [1] - it was really the beginning of a new art form, and that book meant so much to me. At some point I lost it, but even though it’d be outdated today, I’d like to pick it up again. Very first web project was putting together an online zine with a fugazi interview my friend had done. I don’t know what happened to it, but it’s possible I’ve got it on a decomposing Zip Disc somewhere. 1: https://www.amazon.com/Hotwired-Style-Principles-Building-Smart/dp/1888869097 https://www.amazon.com/Hotwired-Style-Principles-Building-Sm...
- fierro 9y ago`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?
- forgotmypw 9y agoThis completes the 90s experience.
- Drdrdrq 9y agoThe site is down, you can see it in whole here: https://web.archive.org/web/20050212133946/http://boglin.iwarp.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050212133946/http://boglin.iwa...
- Method-X 9y agoThe site is down due to increased traffic from HN. Here is an archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20180303000007/http://boglin.iwarp.com https://web.archive.org/web/20180303000007/http://boglin.iwa...
- Vektorweg 9y agoThere are still many simple websites made today. They are certainly hard to find, but not gone.
- ariofrio 9y agoWe've done it. We brought down his service plan. Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20050409065436/http://boglin.iwarp.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050409065436/http://boglin.iwa...
- forgotmypw 9y agoNetscape for life. SeaMonkey is still my favorite browser.
- arianvanp 9y agoThe website of a local taxi bureau here: http://taxipol.nl/ http://taxipol.nl/ :)
- rpeden 9y agoThe site was down for a bit due to using up my free bandwidth quota, so I decided to pay them for a month of service to get it back up. According to the site's admin panel, they've been hosting it free for 972 weeks so I figure I owe them. :)
- pknerd 9y agoIt's not you who to get embarrassed but advocates and implementors of the modern sites who say that the world does not exist without React,AJAX and MVC.
- Santosh83 9y agoYou should be proud of something that loads in under 1 second! I miss that Internet, you could even surf it on dialup without tearing your hair out. These days a multi-megabit broadband connextion seems to struggle and I'm wondering if I can get a fiber...
- homero 9y agoI miss those days
- james-skemp 9y agoMy favorite site to check on is Trygve Lode's site, http://www.trygve.com http://www.trygve.com Found him years ago via the Visible Barbie project, http://www.trygve.com/visible_barbie.html http://www.trygve.com/visible_barbie.html He hasn't updated his blog in years, but for years I would look forward to his random posts since it would remind me of the mid/late 90s when I was just getting online, reading AOL's documentation on how to write HTML.
- diimdeep 9y agoI too remember ICQ number. ICQ was popular in Russia until Facebook clone VK came along in 2005-06, and then still used for important contacts(who refused to leave it) in business.
- lolikoisuru 9y agoHere is my embarassing personal website from the 2010s: https://gnu.moe/ https://gnu.moe/
- cup-of-tea 9y agoDisappointed to find that winblows.com is no longer up.
- BleachNut 9y agoIf this gave you chronic nostalgia head over here and click surprise me: wiby.me
- atticusCr 9y agoI didn't know that in the 90's Google Analytics ever exists!.
- Hmaal 9y agoMy favorite thing is how it instantly loaded.
- ajnin 9y agoI think those old websites are great and it's a shame that so many were lost in time or with the destruction of geocities. I resurrected my own from some backup I had kept by some stroke of luck, the site was originally created on the defunct French website mygale.org around 1997 or so. Here is it now for the curious : https://www.bidouille.org/ext/old_site/ https://www.bidouille.org/ext/old_site/ :)
- mncolinlee 9y agoThis made me dig up my twenty years ago college attempt at a humorous web zine in 1998. It still lives on in Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20010422120204/http://www.afn.org:80/~afn63844/bob/121797bob.html https://web.archive.org/web/20010422120204/http://www.afn.or...
- equalunique 9y agoYour "About Me" page has information that would be considered very private/PII in the 21st century.
- epeus 9y agoI posted mine on the w3c's 20th anniversary in 2014 http://www.kevinmarks.com/myfirstwebsite.html http://www.kevinmarks.com/myfirstwebsite.html
- michaelwsherman 9y agoShameless plug: I intentionally went in this direction when I made a website for my band. I think it's high time this aesthetic came back into fashion. https://www.smock-frock.com https://www.smock-frock.com
- dmurthy 9y agoDo miss the 90's internet. I remember having no interest in programming yet be able to conjure up a quick fan webpage on angelfire using nothing but simple html and Microsoft Frontpage. It became such a satisfying experience that I ended up creating a few more and even one dedicated to my girlfriend!