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This brings back memories, the days when geocities, and software like frontpage and dreamweaver were a thing. Most personal websites were exactly like this, wo

This 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 ago
There is still hope: http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/ http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/
- CPLX 9y ago
  This is... amazing...
  - mglauco 9y ago
    great job!
- jpmoyn 9y ago
  That might be the best use of bootstrap I've seen.
- seeekr 9y ago
  The 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 ago
    I'm running a production site that lets you pick from 5 different Bootswatch themes... What's one more?! It's tempting...
  - iknowstuff 9y ago
    Huh! It's choppy on my Firefox Nightly, but smooth on Chrome. Why?!
- kevsim 9y ago
  That animation on form input errors is amazing
  - bartread 9y ago
    I want to sneak that in as an Easter Egg for some serious corporate web app I'm working on in future.
AndrewStephens 9y ago
You are the target audience for https://wiby.me https://wiby.me - the search engine for old school websites
- sli 9y ago
  Clicked "surprise me" and it took me to DopeROMs, a website that I still use periodically.
- BeetleB 9y ago
  I clicked "Surprise Me" and got this creepy page: http://idiom.com/~beverly/hans_resume.html http://idiom.com/~beverly/hans_resume.html
  - campbellmorgan 9y ago
    Very creepy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser
  - EamonnMR 9y ago
    Oh wow, that appears to be real (it predates his infamous crime.)
- tmm 9y ago
  This is a fantastic search engine. I clicked 'surprise me' and ended up at http://homebrewcpuring.org http://homebrewcpuring.org - a web ring! I don't think I've seen a web ring in 15 years. I wish they were still popular; what a wonderful way to discover new stuff.
- alanfalcon 9y ago
  We need a wiby.me for any given time frame on archive.org.
fhood 9y ago
Wait, Dreamweaver is not longer a thing?!?!
- wolco 9y ago
  It still has functionality missing from newer editors
  - SteveNuts 9y ago
    How can that be, why do they continue to fund development of the product if they aren't going to keep up with current trends.
    - TheGRS 9y ago
      I think Adobe moved a lot of that type of offering to other projects like XD, but I'm not really in that space.
- Jaruzel 9y ago
  Dreamweaver is still very much usable: 1. Get a copy of Dreamweaver 8, or 9[1]. 2. Switch it to 'code' view only. 3. Install the HTML5 intellisense updates. 4. Create a new 'HTML template' that has HTML5 header tags. 5. Enjoy! One perfectly good and usable HTML/JS/CSS editor, with what I feel is still the best intellisense for CSS around. --- [1] '8' is better, as it's before Adobe took over, added bugs and renumbered it '9'. Seriously... they are functionally the same product.
TheGRS 9y ago
Every now and then I go to the Space Jam site because for some reason they still host it. Some great 90s web stuff in there, especially all of the tiled backgrounds and liberal use of frames. https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
- kerrsclyde 9y ago
  https://twitter.com/SpaceJamCheck https://twitter.com/SpaceJamCheck
- endgame 9y ago
  Did you know that Space Jam is one of Servo's test cases? https://ask.metafilter.com/302664/How-does-the-Space-Jam-website-from-1996-still-work-on-todays-browsers#4383720 https://ask.metafilter.com/302664/How-does-the-Space-Jam-web...
sotojuan 9y ago
https://twitter.com/wwwtxt https://twitter.com/wwwtxt is always there to remind you of the good times of the Internet.
- shakna 9y ago
  See their site for more 90s glory: http://wwwtxt.org/tagged/txt http://wwwtxt.org/tagged/txt
sedachv 9y ago
HN user kyledrake started https://neocities.org/ https://neocities.org/ in 2013 and it is going strong.
- kyledrake 9y ago
  Can confirm, going strong. We don't get a ton of media attention (and when we do it's usually stupid and focused on anachronistic design rather than creative control), but we're still growing steadily and getting a lot of really interesting new web sites and traffic.
  - mattl 9y ago
    Just updated my account to paid subscriber. My own old page: https://mat.tl/archive/1994.htm https://mat.tl/archive/1994.htm
  - StavrosK 9y ago
    Hey, do you want to collaborate somehow? A friend and I built this, and I know you like IPFS, plus we both miss the Geocities era, so we can probably find something to improve: https://hearth.eternum.io/ https://hearth.eternum.io/
    - iamwil 9y ago
      I wanna say neocities already builds on top of IPFS. https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2015/09/08/its-time-for-the-distributed-web.html https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2015/09/08/its-time-for-the-...
    - kyledrake 9y ago
      Let's at least talk about it. Send me an email. Neocities has some experimental support for IPFS, but there's much room for improvement here.
siegelzero 9y ago
Check out the (official?) site to buy Wheel of Fortune/Jeopardy! tickets for some nostalgia: http://www.wheeljeopardytickets.com/ http://www.wheeljeopardytickets.com/
- giarc 9y ago
  I don't think it's official. If you click on the links on that page, you are directed to the official Jeopardy and WOF websites. I suspect that at one time there were quite a few ads on this website. Glad it's still hosted though. I love looking at these sites, brings back a lot of great memories. For example, when my school first got internet access. It was on two computers in the library. Each class would get scheduled time to come and "surf". You would prepare for your upcoming slot by coming up with a list of urls. I remember wanting to go to the TSN website (Canadian ESPN basically). They would list it during shows and I remember having to watch for a while because I couldn't write it all down at once... http://www.tsn.ca http://www.tsn.ca I would get a few characters, then have to wait for the next splash of the url. Ex. https://www.jeopardy.com/show-tickets/ https://www.jeopardy.com/show-tickets/
  - bringtheaction 9y ago
    It says on the page that it’s the official page of the studio making those two shows.
kurthr 9y ago
That's what the wayback machine is for! It's good for most personal pages back to about '99. https://web.archive.org/ https://web.archive.org/ It's awesome if you want to see which animated separator GIFs and crazy tiled backgrounds you were using.
- alanfalcon 9y ago
  Assuming the images ever load haha. This was me in 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/19981202215109/members.xoom.com/dafalcon https://web.archive.org/web/19981202215109/members.xoom.com/...
  - alyandon 9y ago
    Ah yes the 90s... https://web.archive.org/web/19990223201901/http://members.xoom.com:80/alyandon/ https://web.archive.org/web/19990223201901/http://members.xo... That really brings back some memories.
clw8 9y ago
Back in 97 I had a PS1 (then known as PSX) news site on Geocities that had a weekly newsletter with game reviews contributed by other internet randos. I actually got some free games to review from companies. I was too young to think of making a backup when it fizzled out, and I couldn't find it on that Geocities archive site. That made me deeply sad.

owlninja 9y ago

There is still hope: http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/ http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/

CPLX 9y ago
This is... amazing...
- mglauco 9y ago
  great job!
jpmoyn 9y ago
That might be the best use of bootstrap I've seen.
seeekr 9y ago
The 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 ago
  I'm running a production site that lets you pick from 5 different Bootswatch themes... What's one more?! It's tempting...
- iknowstuff 9y ago
  Huh! It's choppy on my Firefox Nightly, but smooth on Chrome. Why?!
kevsim 9y ago
That animation on form input errors is amazing
- bartread 9y ago
  I want to sneak that in as an Easter Egg for some serious corporate web app I'm working on in future.

AndrewStephens 9y ago

You are the target audience for https://wiby.me https://wiby.me - the search engine for old school websites

sli 9y ago
Clicked "surprise me" and it took me to DopeROMs, a website that I still use periodically.
BeetleB 9y ago
I clicked "Surprise Me" and got this creepy page: http://idiom.com/~beverly/hans_resume.html http://idiom.com/~beverly/hans_resume.html
- campbellmorgan 9y ago
  Very creepy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser
- EamonnMR 9y ago
  Oh wow, that appears to be real (it predates his infamous crime.)
tmm 9y ago
This is a fantastic search engine. I clicked 'surprise me' and ended up at http://homebrewcpuring.org http://homebrewcpuring.org - a web ring! I don't think I've seen a web ring in 15 years. I wish they were still popular; what a wonderful way to discover new stuff.
alanfalcon 9y ago
We need a wiby.me for any given time frame on archive.org.

fhood 9y ago

Wait, Dreamweaver is not longer a thing?!?!

wolco 9y ago
It still has functionality missing from newer editors
- SteveNuts 9y ago
  How can that be, why do they continue to fund development of the product if they aren't going to keep up with current trends.
  - TheGRS 9y ago
    I think Adobe moved a lot of that type of offering to other projects like XD, but I'm not really in that space.
Jaruzel 9y ago
Dreamweaver is still very much usable: 1. Get a copy of Dreamweaver 8, or 9[1]. 2. Switch it to 'code' view only. 3. Install the HTML5 intellisense updates. 4. Create a new 'HTML template' that has HTML5 header tags. 5. Enjoy! One perfectly good and usable HTML/JS/CSS editor, with what I feel is still the best intellisense for CSS around. --- [1] '8' is better, as it's before Adobe took over, added bugs and renumbered it '9'. Seriously... they are functionally the same product.

TheGRS 9y ago

Every now and then I go to the Space Jam site because for some reason they still host it. Some great 90s web stuff in there, especially all of the tiled backgrounds and liberal use of frames. https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

kerrsclyde 9y ago
https://twitter.com/SpaceJamCheck https://twitter.com/SpaceJamCheck
endgame 9y ago
Did you know that Space Jam is one of Servo's test cases? https://ask.metafilter.com/302664/How-does-the-Space-Jam-website-from-1996-still-work-on-todays-browsers#4383720 https://ask.metafilter.com/302664/How-does-the-Space-Jam-web...

sotojuan 9y ago

https://twitter.com/wwwtxt https://twitter.com/wwwtxt is always there to remind you of the good times of the Internet.

shakna 9y ago
See their site for more 90s glory: http://wwwtxt.org/tagged/txt http://wwwtxt.org/tagged/txt

sedachv 9y ago

HN user kyledrake started https://neocities.org/ https://neocities.org/ in 2013 and it is going strong.

kyledrake 9y ago
Can confirm, going strong. We don't get a ton of media attention (and when we do it's usually stupid and focused on anachronistic design rather than creative control), but we're still growing steadily and getting a lot of really interesting new web sites and traffic.
- mattl 9y ago
  Just updated my account to paid subscriber. My own old page: https://mat.tl/archive/1994.htm https://mat.tl/archive/1994.htm
- StavrosK 9y ago
  Hey, do you want to collaborate somehow? A friend and I built this, and I know you like IPFS, plus we both miss the Geocities era, so we can probably find something to improve: https://hearth.eternum.io/ https://hearth.eternum.io/
  - iamwil 9y ago
    I wanna say neocities already builds on top of IPFS. https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2015/09/08/its-time-for-the-distributed-web.html https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2015/09/08/its-time-for-the-...
  - kyledrake 9y ago
    Let's at least talk about it. Send me an email. Neocities has some experimental support for IPFS, but there's much room for improvement here.

siegelzero 9y ago

Check out the (official?) site to buy Wheel of Fortune/Jeopardy! tickets for some nostalgia: http://www.wheeljeopardytickets.com/ http://www.wheeljeopardytickets.com/

giarc 9y ago
I don't think it's official. If you click on the links on that page, you are directed to the official Jeopardy and WOF websites. I suspect that at one time there were quite a few ads on this website. Glad it's still hosted though. I love looking at these sites, brings back a lot of great memories. For example, when my school first got internet access. It was on two computers in the library. Each class would get scheduled time to come and "surf". You would prepare for your upcoming slot by coming up with a list of urls. I remember wanting to go to the TSN website (Canadian ESPN basically). They would list it during shows and I remember having to watch for a while because I couldn't write it all down at once... http://www.tsn.ca http://www.tsn.ca I would get a few characters, then have to wait for the next splash of the url. Ex. https://www.jeopardy.com/show-tickets/ https://www.jeopardy.com/show-tickets/
- bringtheaction 9y ago
  It says on the page that it’s the official page of the studio making those two shows.

kurthr 9y ago

That's what the wayback machine is for! It's good for most personal pages back to about '99. https://web.archive.org/ https://web.archive.org/ It's awesome if you want to see which animated separator GIFs and crazy tiled backgrounds you were using.

alanfalcon 9y ago
Assuming the images ever load haha. This was me in 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/19981202215109/members.xoom.com/dafalcon https://web.archive.org/web/19981202215109/members.xoom.com/...
- alyandon 9y ago
  Ah yes the 90s... https://web.archive.org/web/19990223201901/http://members.xoom.com:80/alyandon/ https://web.archive.org/web/19990223201901/http://members.xo... That really brings back some memories.

clw8 9y ago

Back in 97 I had a PS1 (then known as PSX) news site on Geocities that had a weekly newsletter with game reviews contributed by other internet randos. I actually got some free games to review from companies. I was too young to think of making a backup when it fizzled out, and I couldn't find it on that Geocities archive site. That made me deeply sad.