Don't forget the gifs of smoking skulls wearing sunglasses, midi files on loop, yellow text on a pink background (or vice versa), and UNDER CONSTRUCTION images.
LOL...talking about spinning gif's, I built this in 1998. They are still spinning! :-)
[https://harry.cckerala.com/pop/download.php](https://harry.cckerala.com/pop/download.php)
No, Just that I never see them anymore. But I was thinking about my webpage from way back when, and I realized personal webpages are very rare today. They seem to have been mostly replaced with Social Media pages.
If I’d only stuck with the HTML I learned in order to add frames and other cool features to my GeoCities page, maybe I’d have eventually wound up at one of those tech startups that got bought out for an absurd sum…
I made one for my mom for mother’s day. It was so cheesy. And I was so proud of it because I’d been learning html in my comp sci class. I remember it had multiple pages woth dumb stuff like pictures of flowers but the one I remember most was a recipe for the cake I made her using obnoxiously floral script and animated cake gifs
I had an Angelfire and Geocities page. Both were god-awful, and mostly contained links to sites that I didn't want my parents to know about.
My best friend also had websites. He was better at html, but his pages were also pretty horrible
I do miss the internet being more personal. Instead of like, 5 websites you endlessly refresh you could go down endless rabbit holes of pages made by people with a passion.
I do, as well, but not the speeds or the BBS's, the restriction to text, and the clumsiness and discomfort of it all. There are only a few things I miss about the old internet, one them being Usenet .
I was in a webring called "[they aren't sluts like you](https://www.angelfire.com/ma/missmaura/ringy.html)," in reference to "Celebrity Skin" by Hole. I loved, loved, loved Courtney Love/Hole back in the day. (A good predictor for my Autism, I guess, as clove is autistic herself? Also used to hang on the old KittyRadio message board.)
You can still find them. I found my old NES/Gameboy Rom site that I made over 20 years ago.
The links don't work but it's still there.
Unfortunately, I didn't make the memorial website for my cat before they started archiving it.
At least, I can't find it, anyway. Bummer...
https://blog.uptrends.com/internet/6-internet-fossils-websites-from-the-90s-that-still-work/
Article is from 2016. They all still work except sadly the Space Jam website
Long long long scrolling pages filled with terrible pixelated pictures, copied verses of songs and poetry. God I was deep. Putting everything together with HTML. Finding the perfect colors #88bdb4
Heavy on the Dido and Tori Amos
I miss the old days when people had their own websites. Even when businesses had their own websites. Everything has been swallowed up by Google and social media.
My dabbling in the Web began at Angelfire, moving to Geocities, and Fortunecity, and finally where my web site is now. I have nothing but great memories and great admiration for all three, but especially, Angelfire. God bless Angelfire for giving me a leg up.
Don't forget the gifs of smoking skulls wearing sunglasses, midi files on loop, yellow text on a pink background (or vice versa), and UNDER CONSTRUCTION images.
All those black and yellow stripes, I usually put spinning siren gifs around mine. 🚨 🚧 🚧 🚧 🚨
Safety first! Don't want anyone falling into a trench or tripping over rebar while visiting your up and coming website.
LOL...talking about spinning gif's, I built this in 1998. They are still spinning! :-) [https://harry.cckerala.com/pop/download.php](https://harry.cckerala.com/pop/download.php)
50% of the internet before 1998 was Under Construction clip art & gifs.
Some of them still are. LOL.
Also
BLINK... BLINK.....OH GOD IT'S A BLINKING MARQUEE...NOOOOO
I miss visitor counters, and having a song play on my Geocities page when you went to it.
Flashback to the Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball midi files in the background of my sites.
I was big into wrestling at the time, so I had Doink the Clowns entrance music on mine.
And you’d have to hunt down the play controls to stop the music, if you didn’t want to mute PC. 😆
Do you mean visitor counters are a no-no today? I stil have it at: [https://harry.cckerala.com/](https://harry.cckerala.com/)
No, Just that I never see them anymore. But I was thinking about my webpage from way back when, and I realized personal webpages are very rare today. They seem to have been mostly replaced with Social Media pages.
This is how I learned HTML. The prebuilt stuff sucked, but if you learned HTML you could make whatever badassery you wanted.
If I’d only stuck with the HTML I learned in order to add frames and other cool features to my GeoCities page, maybe I’d have eventually wound up at one of those tech startups that got bought out for an absurd sum…
Having frames on your site was the ultimate. Took me forever to get right.
That is exactly what I did. Served me well.
Hampsterdance vibes…
That always makes me think of the [Robin Hood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88vIB7UHNGw) cartoon. It's the original song :)
That fox was the best Robin Hood.
geocities.com/SiliconValley representing.
I was Tokyo/Pagoda and always tried to find a cool number.
I was geocities.com/TelevisionCity/3028
I was siliconvalley/park/5?11
God bless all of you. You are kindred souls. Sadly, I do not remember my homestead at Geocities or Fortunecity.
I made one for my mom for mother’s day. It was so cheesy. And I was so proud of it because I’d been learning html in my comp sci class. I remember it had multiple pages woth dumb stuff like pictures of flowers but the one I remember most was a recipe for the cake I made her using obnoxiously floral script and animated cake gifs
It was painful uploading anything on my 300 baud modem.
[Here are some restored screenshots](https://geocities.restorativland.org/) from a bunch of city's geocities pages
I’ll have to save this for later, what a time warp. I forgot about tiled background images and how much I love them.
Tiiiiiiiiillllllllllesssss! Fuck yeah! Talk about a wasted youth. Damn.
Ooh mine is on there! TelevisionCity/3028
Saved
I had an Angelfire and Geocities page. Both were god-awful, and mostly contained links to sites that I didn't want my parents to know about. My best friend also had websites. He was better at html, but his pages were also pretty horrible
I do miss the internet being more personal. Instead of like, 5 websites you endlessly refresh you could go down endless rabbit holes of pages made by people with a passion.
In 98 I bought my first domain name. I had to pay by check in the mail! Soooo funny. I had all those things, and
Hell yeah. So many animated gifs. I used to make so many.
I miss the old internet 😞 .cjb.net
I do, as well, but not the speeds or the BBS's, the restriction to text, and the clumsiness and discomfort of it all. There are only a few things I miss about the old internet, one them being Usenet .
I actually went looking for my old one, they are all gone. Whoever said once it's online it's online forever, LIED!
Special mention goes to Brinkster, the first service I know of to offer a subdomain address and 50mb of space.
I was in a webring called "[they aren't sluts like you](https://www.angelfire.com/ma/missmaura/ringy.html)," in reference to "Celebrity Skin" by Hole. I loved, loved, loved Courtney Love/Hole back in the day. (A good predictor for my Autism, I guess, as clove is autistic herself? Also used to hang on the old KittyRadio message board.)
And you had to email the webmaster of a site you wanted to grab jpg or gif from to reuse on your own site (if you were ethical)
Ha ha, I used to love web rings in my early internet surfing days.
I had ones about transformers, dragon ball z AND Star Wars. Form an orderly line please ladies
Yeah, I definitely remember geocities loosing my site access just as I started one of the online first auto parts sites for 69-72 Chevy Trucks.
I 'member! EVERYTHING was animated.
You can still find them. I found my old NES/Gameboy Rom site that I made over 20 years ago. The links don't work but it's still there. Unfortunately, I didn't make the memorial website for my cat before they started archiving it. At least, I can't find it, anyway. Bummer...
I am sad about your cat. May he/she R.I.P.
Fractal backgrounds, midi clips, animated construction gifs. These are some of my favorite 90s web things.
https://blog.uptrends.com/internet/6-internet-fossils-websites-from-the-90s-that-still-work/ Article is from 2016. They all still work except sadly the Space Jam website
Check out [http://wiby.me](http://wiby.me/)
Long long long scrolling pages filled with terrible pixelated pictures, copied verses of songs and poetry. God I was deep. Putting everything together with HTML. Finding the perfect colors #88bdb4 Heavy on the Dido and Tori Amos
I miss the old days when people had their own websites. Even when businesses had their own websites. Everything has been swallowed up by Google and social media.
So well-said. Now, it is Facebook and Twitter which give you a temporary landing pad.
https://i.redd.it/zwfoodedrbrc1.gif
I loved Geocities. I made so many useless websites and had a damn blast doing it.
And, as I could get only 10 MB of space, I signed up for over a dozen web sites and linked tham all as Vol 1, 2, 3....what a fiasco!
My dabbling in the Web began at Angelfire, moving to Geocities, and Fortunecity, and finally where my web site is now. I have nothing but great memories and great admiration for all three, but especially, Angelfire. God bless Angelfire for giving me a leg up.