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Anyone who hasn't seen it should check out Cameron’s World: an absurdly great web mishmash of text and images from old archived GeoCities pages. https://camero

Anyone who hasn't seen it should check out Cameron’s World: an absurdly great web mishmash of text and images from old archived GeoCities pages. https://cameronsworld.net https://cameronsworld.net

doginasuit 2mo ago
It's beautiful but I was disappointed not to see the famous gif of the tiger approaching, which was 95% of the content of my geocities page.
- vunderba 2mo ago
  Haha, I know its not the same but at least they have the 3d rotating skull! Here ya go - Internet Archive backed up a metric shit-ton (I believe is the correct measure word) of animated GIFs from geocities: https://gifcities.org/search?q=tiger&offset=0&page_size=200 https://gifcities.org/search?q=tiger&offset=0&page_size=200 I should add a little JS snippet on my site that injects random geocities GIFs every October 26th which was when the service died back in 2009.
  - doginasuit 2mo ago
    Thank you, I couldn't find it with google and I was starting to think the internet had forgotten it in its steady decline. Whether that's a symptom or the cause of the decline, I can't be sure. But there's still hope!!
3abiton 2mo ago
Gosh this gave a big myspace flashback
tobinfekkes 2mo ago
That is a massive website, and still loads quicker/smaller than an entry level React site.
- filcuk 2mo ago
  Well, yeah... because it's mostly 5-10KB gifs that are lazy-loaded on scroll.
- shooly 2mo ago
  This has got to be one of the most stupid comments I've read this week. This is a page with random lazy-loaded images splattered all around, the load and render time difference if this used React would be not more than 10 milliseconds.
  - zelphirkalt 2mo ago
    On the other hand, since the typical (!) React site has no fallbacks whatsoever for noscript, even though a specific HTML tag exists for this very purpose, the React site stays a white page, one can wait an arbitrarily long time and it still won't work or change, and the browser tab gets closed.
    - speedgoose 2mo ago
      The 500 people browsing internet without JavaScript enabled by default would have to enable it. Difficult times.
      - GTP 2mo ago
        I think the complaint is mainly about the failure mode. I guess it would be trivial to use the noscript tag to display a message saying JavaScript is required, instead of showing a blank page that keeps loading.
        speedgoose 2mo ago
        Yes I agree. A no script tag is a nice to have.
      - monooso 2mo ago
        I'll avoid getting into the whole discussion about people on slow connections, accessibility, etc., as I get the impression you really don't care about them, and just point out the obvious fact that everyone has JavaScript disabled whilst your JavaScript is downloading.
bflesch 2mo ago
This website is so much faster than 99% of the modern macbook-focused websites with all those fades and css transitions.
- customguy 2mo ago
  And it's somewhat responsive even, has a sticky footer... keeping the best of the past while also staying up to date with modern developments, I think we all can learn from this <3
szszrk 2mo ago
So many of those GIFs I had on a hard drive at some point, wow. Surprisingly, despite all that colorful circus, it reminds me times when we read web pages. Like... the entirety of them.
crumb1e 2mo ago
you'll probably love this then, https://hellnet.work/8831/ https://hellnet.work/8831/ a huge archive of 88x31 buttons scraped from the GeoCities archives.

Anyone who hasn't seen it should check out Cameron’s World: an absurdly great web mishmash of text and images from old archived GeoCities pages. https://cameronsworld.net https://cameronsworld.net

doginasuit 2mo ago

It's beautiful but I was disappointed not to see the famous gif of the tiger approaching, which was 95% of the content of my geocities page.

vunderba 2mo ago
Haha, I know its not the same but at least they have the 3d rotating skull! Here ya go - Internet Archive backed up a metric shit-ton (I believe is the correct measure word) of animated GIFs from geocities: https://gifcities.org/search?q=tiger&offset=0&page_size=200 https://gifcities.org/search?q=tiger&offset=0&page_size=200 I should add a little JS snippet on my site that injects random geocities GIFs every October 26th which was when the service died back in 2009.
- doginasuit 2mo ago
  Thank you, I couldn't find it with google and I was starting to think the internet had forgotten it in its steady decline. Whether that's a symptom or the cause of the decline, I can't be sure. But there's still hope!!

3abiton 2mo ago

Gosh this gave a big myspace flashback

tobinfekkes 2mo ago

That is a massive website, and still loads quicker/smaller than an entry level React site.

filcuk 2mo ago
Well, yeah... because it's mostly 5-10KB gifs that are lazy-loaded on scroll.
shooly 2mo ago
This has got to be one of the most stupid comments I've read this week. This is a page with random lazy-loaded images splattered all around, the load and render time difference if this used React would be not more than 10 milliseconds.
- zelphirkalt 2mo ago
  On the other hand, since the typical (!) React site has no fallbacks whatsoever for noscript, even though a specific HTML tag exists for this very purpose, the React site stays a white page, one can wait an arbitrarily long time and it still won't work or change, and the browser tab gets closed.
  - speedgoose 2mo ago
    The 500 people browsing internet without JavaScript enabled by default would have to enable it. Difficult times.
    - GTP 2mo ago
      I think the complaint is mainly about the failure mode. I guess it would be trivial to use the noscript tag to display a message saying JavaScript is required, instead of showing a blank page that keeps loading.
      - speedgoose 2mo ago
        Yes I agree. A no script tag is a nice to have.
    - monooso 2mo ago
      I'll avoid getting into the whole discussion about people on slow connections, accessibility, etc., as I get the impression you really don't care about them, and just point out the obvious fact that everyone has JavaScript disabled whilst your JavaScript is downloading.

bflesch 2mo ago

This website is so much faster than 99% of the modern macbook-focused websites with all those fades and css transitions.

customguy 2mo ago
And it's somewhat responsive even, has a sticky footer... keeping the best of the past while also staying up to date with modern developments, I think we all can learn from this <3

szszrk 2mo ago

So many of those GIFs I had on a hard drive at some point, wow. Surprisingly, despite all that colorful circus, it reminds me times when we read web pages. Like... the entirety of them.

crumb1e 2mo ago

you'll probably love this then, https://hellnet.work/8831/ https://hellnet.work/8831/ a huge archive of 88x31 buttons scraped from the GeoCities archives.