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I was on the pre-ipo (and post ipo) design team. So its partly my fault lmfao.

shams93 2y ago
But to answer where it came from? It came from the limitations of the web at the time - table based layout, low graphic resolutions, browser running under 16 megs (not gigs) of ram.
- shams93 2y ago
  We also had a rule that no page could weigh under 26k, although pages by users of Geocities could be larger, all the pages that ran geocities had to be 26kb or less.
  - smegsicle 2y ago
    default/official pages were under 26k?
- Wowfunhappy 2y ago
  ...I don't know. You can have low-resolution 8-bit graphics which are better† designed. Look at classic Mac OS, or modern indie games with a retro pixel art aesthetic. --- † "Better" in this case means something akin to "what most people today would consider more professional." I don't want to judge.
  - krapp 2y ago
    The retro pixel art aesthetic is just that - an aesthetic. It's intentional and doesn't accurately reflect the technology it imitates, because it's about a vibe. The people creating Geocities webpages weren't professional developers or artists trying to adhere to a particular aesthetic, they were regular (mostly non-technical) people doing what they thought looked cool at the time, or just copying other sites and using the graphic elements or templates provided by Geocities.
  - TillE 2y ago
    Sure but we're talking about personal/hobby pages made by people who are overwhelmingly not artists and designers.
  - b3ing 2y ago
    Pixel graphics were still pretty much current at that time. Not everyone threw away the SNES/genesis when the next gen systems came out, most people probably still had one.
  - b3ing 2y ago
    Pixel graphics were still pretty much current at that time. Not everyone threw away the SNES/genesis when the next gen systems came out, most people probably still had one. And to do the pixel graphic style you need a pixel font which was impossible because you can only reference fonts people have on their computer, Fixedsys font was the best you could reference and some did do that.
  - JojoFatsani 2y ago
    Geocities was not for professionals. It was for amateurs.
andrewstuart 2y ago
You worked on Geocities! HELP! Do you have any idea at all where the backups ended up? Can you think of anyone - any names - who might know how to find the backups of geocities? It's classic Internet history lost to time. If only we could find backups!

But to answer where it came from? It came from the limitations of the web at the time - table based layout, low graphic resolutions, browser running under 16 megs (not gigs) of ram.

shams93 2y ago
We also had a rule that no page could weigh under 26k, although pages by users of Geocities could be larger, all the pages that ran geocities had to be 26kb or less.
- smegsicle 2y ago
  default/official pages were under 26k?
Wowfunhappy 2y ago
...I don't know. You can have low-resolution 8-bit graphics which are better† designed. Look at classic Mac OS, or modern indie games with a retro pixel art aesthetic. --- † "Better" in this case means something akin to "what most people today would consider more professional." I don't want to judge.
- krapp 2y ago
  The retro pixel art aesthetic is just that - an aesthetic. It's intentional and doesn't accurately reflect the technology it imitates, because it's about a vibe. The people creating Geocities webpages weren't professional developers or artists trying to adhere to a particular aesthetic, they were regular (mostly non-technical) people doing what they thought looked cool at the time, or just copying other sites and using the graphic elements or templates provided by Geocities.
- TillE 2y ago
  Sure but we're talking about personal/hobby pages made by people who are overwhelmingly not artists and designers.
- b3ing 2y ago
  Pixel graphics were still pretty much current at that time. Not everyone threw away the SNES/genesis when the next gen systems came out, most people probably still had one.
- b3ing 2y ago
  Pixel graphics were still pretty much current at that time. Not everyone threw away the SNES/genesis when the next gen systems came out, most people probably still had one. And to do the pixel graphic style you need a pixel font which was impossible because you can only reference fonts people have on their computer, Fixedsys font was the best you could reference and some did do that.
- JojoFatsani 2y ago
  Geocities was not for professionals. It was for amateurs.

andrewstuart 2y ago

You worked on Geocities! HELP! Do you have any idea at all where the backups ended up? Can you think of anyone - any names - who might know how to find the backups of geocities? It's classic Internet history lost to time. If only we could find backups!