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A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
- cycop 6y agoIts beautiful
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- mymythisisthis 6y agoNice.
- _Microft 6y ago~~ You are visitor [41,692] ~~
- Loughla 6y agoI legitimately forgot about that until just right now. I would absolutely LOVE that count on some websites, just to see the traffic.
- pcdoodle 6y agoWow, I like the transitions, they all make me feel something a little bit different (Kind of like a smell reminding you of a certain time in your life).
- jFriedensreich 6y agothis
- cableshaft 6y agoVery cool. I think I had a couple of those images on my old Geocities website myself, although I did create a lot of my old images (badly) using Paint Shop Pro (I think) and Bryce for 3d landscape images.
- mekkkkkk 6y agoBryce! Holy shit what a nostalgia bomb. Creating guns and starships using only boolean primitives. It was so weird, and in the end, only landscapes came out beautiful. I wonder what happened to that.
- 29athrowaway 6y agoThis site is spot on. I miss the marquee and blink effects.
- zwieback 6y agoYes, nostalgia and PTSD all at once. Of course I also remember when gopher seemed like a little more than we needed.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y agoMY EYES MY EYES
- ChrisArchitect 6y ago(2015)
- dugmartin 6y agoSadly, I didn't see the dancing baby gif.
- elwell 6y agoIt's there, look closely. Try around here "window.scrollTo(0, 10400);"
- alxndresp 6y agoWow, haven't seen some of those graphics in a long long time. Beautiful. It's just missing the visitor counter and guestbook!
- crest 6y agoDon't forget a webring of broken sites.
- neovive 6y agoSo much nostalgia for one day! Even Java Applet scrolling ticker simulations :). It's amazing the think that birth and demise of Geocities defined an era. The collection of "Under Construction" banners made me think about how much the balance of creation vs consumption on the Internet changed over the years. As much as sites like Geocities and Myspace were eyesores, they represented creative freedom outside the confines of templates, news feeds and vanilla designs.
- tacotacotacos 6y agoThis is amazing. Where’s the hit counter?
- DamnInteresting 6y agoThis makes me oddly nostalgic for the days of painstakingly creating animated GIFs frame-by-frame. My animated GIF magnum opus, ca. 1996: https://www.damninteresting.com/temp/globe_spin3.gif https://www.damninteresting.com/temp/globe_spin3.gif
- ikt 6y agoI always wondered who was making the images and gifs
- rapnie 6y agoOr how far removed sites were from current flat-pixel designs, where menu's could be embossed text on slabs of deeply veined marble (and you had to carefully craft the html to make all the image snippets fit seamlessly).
- elliekelly 6y agoI’m ashamed to admit that I spent many hours making my own frame-by-frame gifs in the late 90s/early 2000s and while it’s (I assume) much easier to make a gif today I don’t exactly know how because I’ve never done it. I’m sure I could figure it out but between Giphy and Google every gif I’ve needed in the last 15 years has been at my fingertips.
- blululu 6y agoSurprisingly I don’t think gif making tools have improved very much inspite of corporate interest from giphy(FB) and tenor (Goog). That said no shame in spending too much time making a gif. During quarantine I made a gif using watercolors that took up a few hours. (https://twitter.com/bnlcas/status/1253075048975351808?s=21 https://twitter.com/bnlcas/status/1253075048975351808?s=21)
- bigcorp-slave 6y agoI just wanna say I love your site so much. Thank you for keeping some of the old internet alive by generating high-quality, free content instead of just aggregating it!
- sarah180 6y agoIt's not entirely gone: https://www.lingscars.com/ https://www.lingscars.com/
- pcdoodle 6y agoThat was a fun rabbit hole. I guess she retired today and gave the business to her staff! Congrats Ling!
- conjectures 6y agoThat's an epic design.
- morsch 6y agoThat's a 3 MB web page. That would have taken about a minute to download with a fast modem. I used a download manager for stuff that large. Remember GetRight? 5/5 at Tucows!
- scrooched_moose 6y agoWhere were you getting anything close to that, outside of a T1 line? No matter what I did or where we lived, 56k dial up in practice was a consistent 3.2 kBps download. 128 kbps MP3s were always about 3.5 MB, which took about 20 minutes to download per track. I feel like those numbers will be burned in my brain for the rest of my life.
- morsch 6y agoYou're right of course, used kilobytes instead of kilobits. Thanks.
- phendrenad2 6y agoThis is some kind of Adult Swim ARG, right?
- stakkur 6y agoI think I finally woke up to the realization that nobody differentiates between the 'Web' and the 'Internet' anymore. The Web is the Internet to most people now.
- DannyB2 6y agoThe WWW or Web, along with email, telnet, ftp and dsniff are applications that run on top of the internet.
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- massysett 6y agoI think this was true several years ago but these days with such pervasive mobile app use I'm not so sure. I think people think Facebook is part of "the Internet" but they are getting there through an app, not the Web.
- Shivetya 6y agoand here I am most impressed that the music turns off when you go to another tab. still it does remind me how long ago some tv shows and such really were. just seeing an Enterprise E reminded me that that show ended before the Internet as many think of it took off
- codeulike 6y agoNice site. I was there, it wasn't that great, most of it was about Monty Python or how much people hated Barney the Dinosaur. The modern internet is much more expressive for a great many more people that geocities ever was.
- ska 6y agoI'm curious what you mean by "expressive". The modern internet is a far more consumer oriented experience than it was in the "old days", so I'm not quite sure what you mean.
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- QuantumYeti 6y agoI was also there. I don't really know what to say other than it wasn't mostly about Monty Python and Barney. Edit: That last "What are you talking about?" part was pretty rude. Sorry about that.
- goatinaboat 6y agoThe modern internet is much more expressive for a great many more people that geocities ever was. Geocities even constrained by the technology of the day offered far more expressiveness than Facebook’s “fill in these fields and we’ll populate a standard template” approach does.
- krapp 6y agoThe "modern internet" is more expressive in terms of content. It's no longer entirely populated by a monoculture of university students or technologically savvy American nerds, and no longer limited only to what text and images can provide. Geocities, compared to modern platforms, offered more technical freedom in that it gave you direct control over HTML, CSS and Javascript, and yet still many Geocities sites wound up looking very similar to one another, and the quality of content in many cases was more shallow than now.
- cbm-vic-20 6y agoA Love Letter to the World Wide Web of Old
- temp0826 6y agoAnd not to be forgotten- https://gifcities.org/ https://gifcities.org/
- forgotmypw17 6y agoInsert self-plug for my site, which many say has a 1990s look
- Threeve303 6y agoFor someone looking at this now it may not seem better than the internet you know. But it was.
- tim44 6y agoYour site makes me want to connect to AOL to punt you guys. don't TOS me.
- aimor 6y agoVery fun site! I was recently making a page with a throwback tone and was disappointed to find out browsers don't support playing standard midi files (not without javascript workarounds). I know this is old news, it must be the first time I've tried to play midi on a website in at least 10 years, but it really surprised me. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7677366/about-embed-midi-files-on-a-webpage https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7677366/about-embed-midi...
- thesuitonym 6y agoCastle Cyber Skull has a similar feel to it, but is much less "Hey look I'm an old website," and more of an actual personal site, similar to what you'd see on Geocities or Angelfire. https://castlecyberskull.neocities.org/ https://castlecyberskull.neocities.org/
- kipchak 6y agoAnyone nostalgic for this kind of internet might really enjoy "Hypnospace Outlaw", a game where you police an alternate universe version of the 90s internet.
- jacinabox 6y agoI had a geocities website with homemade software. Yahoo removed it before it could enter the archive. It had a page with JavaScript that displayed modal dialog boxes repeatedly in a loop; Yahoo identified this JavaScript as a virus.