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Had to check. Lycos/tripod is still hosting a stupid website me and some friends made a bit after 2000 (2004?). The cost is probably none (some static files), b

Had to check. Lycos/tripod is still hosting a stupid website me and some friends made a bit after 2000 (2004?). The cost is probably none (some static files), but I'm impressed they haven't just removed it or lost it during all these years. Stagnant and probably no visitors other than us the weekend we made it. Edit: the glory: http://moj24.tripod.com/ http://moj24.tripod.com/ animated background, marquee and right-click blocking script in case someone tried stealing our content

tomphoolery 7y ago
Ahh, bringing me back! I moved my site between GeoCities, Tripod, and AngelFire all the time back in the day...
fishtacos 7y ago
Aww man, I had a Simpsons fan site up in the 1997/1998 time frame that Tripod eventually took offline due to some sort of abuse or something... which I never figured out. There were a lot of Simpsons fan sites up back then, as I recall.
- ftvy 7y ago
  At that time, FOX was egregious about copyright claim to anything. They worked to take anything offline that was not official, hence licensed. I remember going to fan sites back then. One day they'd be up; the next, they'd 404. Not sure if much has changed.
germinalphrase 7y ago
Those are some high quality motion graphics on the car page, my friend.
oldpmfan 7y ago
Well, same here. An old fan page, last updated 2003. Amazing that it is still up: http://augbunny.tripod.com http://augbunny.tripod.com even the gallery still works http://augbunny.tripod.com/Gallery.htm http://augbunny.tripod.com/Gallery.htm
cosmodisk 7y ago
I have to give you some credit for the load time!
skwashd 7y ago
My first website from around 1997 is still on tripod. I check it every so often and I'm impressed it's still there. Tripod is like an internet time capsule. My site is so bad I'm not going to link to it.
- jliptzin 7y ago
  Every site on tripod could probably be stored on a single micro sd card
  - gscott 7y ago
    I used to sell web hosting... the amount of space started at 250k or if you went with the more expensive package was 500k.
    - vidarh 7y ago
      I used to run an ISP. Our server park was two machines each with 128MB RAM and 120MHz classic Pentiums and 4GB of harddrive space. One of them hosted e-mail and shell access for all our users. The other had web hosting for our business users, our tape drive (we backed up the other machine over the network), and our USENET server...
      - e12e 7y ago
        4gb of HD space?! That's a lot! :)
        vidarh 7y ago
        Yeah,those machines were expensive at the time...
  - benbristow 7y ago
    You can get 1TB MicroSD cards now. So entirely possible.
holler 7y ago
Man, I would be so pumped if I could find my old tripod site. I've looked before but I forgot the username and could never find it. One night as a young teen I decided to read a book "html for dummies", not knowing that 20+ years later the decision would pay off big! Also, <marquee> tag and site counter's for life!
- gothroach 7y ago
  Don't forget the venerable <blink> tag and the obligatory "Under Construction" GIF.
  - reaperducer 7y ago
    And the .shtml guestbook.
    - nicolaus 7y ago
      I always read that in my mind as “shit mill” am I alone?
      - deleted 7y ago
        [deleted]
      - reaperducer 7y ago
        I read it as "sheet metal" because there was an HTML editor of the era called "Hot Metal."
      - randomdude402 7y ago
        It was "dot shitmeal" for me.
    - paulmd 7y ago
      or load-bearing CGI and perl... (perl's OK, CGI had a lot more server side injection risk from what I remember)
SteveNuts 7y ago
Which JS framework did you use for this? I want to use it for my site!
- oneplane 7y ago
  VanillaJS of course! With all the options enabled: http://vanilla-js.com http://vanilla-js.com
  - iudqnolq 7y ago
    That site is cute, but I don't think anyone would seriously claim YouTube is built with "Vanilla JS" in the sense of not requiring a heavy framework to make changes even if the millions of lines od non-vanilla code (guess) they build off of isn't public. And Reddit certainly isn't anymore.
    - Nextgrid 7y ago
      So that's why the experience on these sites is so shit and I dread clicking any link because it'll make my browser stutter for 5 seconds?
fbelzile 7y ago
Wow. The page source is gold. No kidding. Firefox's inspector tool just crashed (went white and unresponsive) while I was making a list of the worst offenses: - h2, h4, h5 used interchangeably - embedded wav file loading an image - loading all JavaScript just below body tag
- tantalor 7y ago
  What's so bad about loading scripts after body?
  - adventured 7y ago
    They're referring to loading the scripts right after the opening body tag (rather than at the end of the body), which historically would block content loading until the scripts all load.
    - josteink 7y ago
      Back then scripts literally were 1kb at most and not 15mb like today, so it really wasn’t much of a problem.
      - eyelidlessness 7y ago
        Back then it took ten minutes to load 1kb
        josteink 7y ago
        It wasn’t that bad. I remember downloading fairly high res JPEGs (so 30-50kb) on a 36k modem back then, and that might have taken a minute.
        eyelidlessness 7y ago
        Hyperbole is lost on 100% of people on the internet.
mwachs 7y ago
This is my zine from 1997. It uses frames. http://scenezine.tripod.com/ http://scenezine.tripod.com/
- OnlineGladiator 7y ago
  Well now I have to watch Gleaming The Cube.
  - duckMuppet 7y ago
    Am excellent movie!
- dessant 7y ago
  Those with an ad blocker are missing out on the full Tripod experience, make sure to turn it off for maximum fun.
  - Tempest1981 7y ago
    Nice. Was hoping for an IE4 toolbar ad.
  - lecarore 7y ago
    Oh my you are so right, i browse with adblock and no js normally, the normal experience is quite rough ^^
  - olliej 7y ago
    Don’t forget that <blink> (And maybe <marquee>?) is no longer supported by modern browsers, so you’re definitely missing some major elements of the experience.
    - shifto 7y ago
      <marquee> still seems to work. <blink> doesn't... Any good reason this has been deprecated?
- vermooten 7y ago
burnJS 7y ago
I always liked tripod way more than geocities.
- spicyramen 7y ago
  Is geocities still around?
tomrod 7y ago
Looks great on mobile.
rkagerer 7y ago
Bet you just got a traffic spike
bcrosby95 7y ago
This stuff always makes me nostalgic. I wonder how feasible it would be to build a search engine specifically for 90s era websites. Ignore all modern stuff.
- spc476 7y ago
  There is: https://wiby.me/ https://wiby.me/
nmfisher 7y ago
This is glorious. I wish I could even remember my Tripod URL, let alone be lucky enough that it's still hosted.
tossAfterUsing 7y ago
the internet needs more of this :)
- tomcooks 7y ago
  Compare with HN posts of 5 years ago suggesting one moves her blog to LinkedIn streams or Medium
black_puppydog 7y ago
Daaaang, should have gone with tripod instead of geocities. :(
dom96 7y ago
Not all of us are so lucky, one of my first websites was hosted by the little known bamboohost.com. Pretty sure it was http://linkinpark.bamboohost.com http://linkinpark.bamboohost.com, but not even web archive can help me recover it.
- iso947 7y ago
  Some of us are lucky - my first websites are not available anywhere, including the web archive. All that is left are some lingering sigs in a few usenet posts from 1998ish still archived on google.
sweetdreamerit 7y ago
Recently, I have been able to find an republish (on my personal site) some of the pages of the mini site I created in 1997: https://bussolon.it/archivio/1997/ https://bussolon.it/archivio/1997/

tomphoolery 7y ago

Ahh, bringing me back! I moved my site between GeoCities, Tripod, and AngelFire all the time back in the day...

fishtacos 7y ago

Aww man, I had a Simpsons fan site up in the 1997/1998 time frame that Tripod eventually took offline due to some sort of abuse or something... which I never figured out. There were a lot of Simpsons fan sites up back then, as I recall.

ftvy 7y ago
At that time, FOX was egregious about copyright claim to anything. They worked to take anything offline that was not official, hence licensed. I remember going to fan sites back then. One day they'd be up; the next, they'd 404. Not sure if much has changed.

germinalphrase 7y ago

Those are some high quality motion graphics on the car page, my friend.

oldpmfan 7y ago

Well, same here. An old fan page, last updated 2003. Amazing that it is still up: http://augbunny.tripod.com http://augbunny.tripod.com even the gallery still works http://augbunny.tripod.com/Gallery.htm http://augbunny.tripod.com/Gallery.htm

cosmodisk 7y ago

I have to give you some credit for the load time!

skwashd 7y ago

My first website from around 1997 is still on tripod. I check it every so often and I'm impressed it's still there. Tripod is like an internet time capsule. My site is so bad I'm not going to link to it.

jliptzin 7y ago
Every site on tripod could probably be stored on a single micro sd card
- gscott 7y ago
  I used to sell web hosting... the amount of space started at 250k or if you went with the more expensive package was 500k.
  - vidarh 7y ago
    I used to run an ISP. Our server park was two machines each with 128MB RAM and 120MHz classic Pentiums and 4GB of harddrive space. One of them hosted e-mail and shell access for all our users. The other had web hosting for our business users, our tape drive (we backed up the other machine over the network), and our USENET server...
    - e12e 7y ago
      4gb of HD space?! That's a lot! :)
      - vidarh 7y ago
        Yeah,those machines were expensive at the time...
- benbristow 7y ago
  You can get 1TB MicroSD cards now. So entirely possible.

holler 7y ago

Man, I would be so pumped if I could find my old tripod site. I've looked before but I forgot the username and could never find it. One night as a young teen I decided to read a book "html for dummies", not knowing that 20+ years later the decision would pay off big! Also, <marquee> tag and site counter's for life!

gothroach 7y ago
Don't forget the venerable <blink> tag and the obligatory "Under Construction" GIF.
- reaperducer 7y ago
  And the .shtml guestbook.
  - nicolaus 7y ago
    I always read that in my mind as “shit mill” am I alone?
    - deleted 7y ago
      [deleted]
    - reaperducer 7y ago
      I read it as "sheet metal" because there was an HTML editor of the era called "Hot Metal."
    - randomdude402 7y ago
      It was "dot shitmeal" for me.
  - paulmd 7y ago
    or load-bearing CGI and perl... (perl's OK, CGI had a lot more server side injection risk from what I remember)

SteveNuts 7y ago

Which JS framework did you use for this? I want to use it for my site!

oneplane 7y ago
VanillaJS of course! With all the options enabled: http://vanilla-js.com http://vanilla-js.com
- iudqnolq 7y ago
  That site is cute, but I don't think anyone would seriously claim YouTube is built with "Vanilla JS" in the sense of not requiring a heavy framework to make changes even if the millions of lines od non-vanilla code (guess) they build off of isn't public. And Reddit certainly isn't anymore.
  - Nextgrid 7y ago
    So that's why the experience on these sites is so shit and I dread clicking any link because it'll make my browser stutter for 5 seconds?

fbelzile 7y ago

Wow. The page source is gold. No kidding. Firefox's inspector tool just crashed (went white and unresponsive) while I was making a list of the worst offenses: - h2, h4, h5 used interchangeably - embedded wav file loading an image - loading all JavaScript just below body tag

tantalor 7y ago
What's so bad about loading scripts after body?
- adventured 7y ago
  They're referring to loading the scripts right after the opening body tag (rather than at the end of the body), which historically would block content loading until the scripts all load.
  - josteink 7y ago
    Back then scripts literally were 1kb at most and not 15mb like today, so it really wasn’t much of a problem.
    - eyelidlessness 7y ago
      Back then it took ten minutes to load 1kb
      - josteink 7y ago
        It wasn’t that bad. I remember downloading fairly high res JPEGs (so 30-50kb) on a 36k modem back then, and that might have taken a minute.
        eyelidlessness 7y ago
        Hyperbole is lost on 100% of people on the internet.

mwachs 7y ago

This is my zine from 1997. It uses frames. http://scenezine.tripod.com/ http://scenezine.tripod.com/

OnlineGladiator 7y ago
Well now I have to watch Gleaming The Cube.
- duckMuppet 7y ago
  Am excellent movie!
dessant 7y ago
Those with an ad blocker are missing out on the full Tripod experience, make sure to turn it off for maximum fun.
- Tempest1981 7y ago
  Nice. Was hoping for an IE4 toolbar ad.
- lecarore 7y ago
  Oh my you are so right, i browse with adblock and no js normally, the normal experience is quite rough ^^
- olliej 7y ago
  Don’t forget that <blink> (And maybe <marquee>?) is no longer supported by modern browsers, so you’re definitely missing some major elements of the experience.
  - shifto 7y ago
    <marquee> still seems to work. <blink> doesn't... Any good reason this has been deprecated?
vermooten 7y ago

burnJS 7y ago

I always liked tripod way more than geocities.

spicyramen 7y ago
Is geocities still around?

tomrod 7y ago

Looks great on mobile.

rkagerer 7y ago

Bet you just got a traffic spike

bcrosby95 7y ago

This stuff always makes me nostalgic. I wonder how feasible it would be to build a search engine specifically for 90s era websites. Ignore all modern stuff.

spc476 7y ago
There is: https://wiby.me/ https://wiby.me/

nmfisher 7y ago

This is glorious. I wish I could even remember my Tripod URL, let alone be lucky enough that it's still hosted.

tossAfterUsing 7y ago

the internet needs more of this :)

tomcooks 7y ago
Compare with HN posts of 5 years ago suggesting one moves her blog to LinkedIn streams or Medium

black_puppydog 7y ago

Daaaang, should have gone with tripod instead of geocities. :(

dom96 7y ago

Not all of us are so lucky, one of my first websites was hosted by the little known bamboohost.com. Pretty sure it was http://linkinpark.bamboohost.com http://linkinpark.bamboohost.com, but not even web archive can help me recover it.

iso947 7y ago
Some of us are lucky - my first websites are not available anywhere, including the web archive. All that is left are some lingering sigs in a few usenet posts from 1998ish still archived on google.

sweetdreamerit 7y ago

Recently, I have been able to find an republish (on my personal site) some of the pages of the mini site I created in 1997: https://bussolon.it/archivio/1997/ https://bussolon.it/archivio/1997/