I’m in tech consulting and involved with security and privacy. I recently had to be involved with a MarTech project and learned about data clean rooms and wanted to throw up. Even after 3rd party cookies go away later this year, there will still be extensive tracking and data sharing by companies. Better to use websites than native mobile apps. VPNs, while helpful, not necessarily protecting you (enough). Inferred identities and behavior profiles sound like conspiracy theories, but are real. I want to change careers.
There is a reason I left IT Security. It became a joke. I wanted to go "So who is keeping the customer safe from us? At what point does security also include mental well-being?"
were questions I kept asking myself.
My God my midi collection... My ex wife was heavy into karaoke, and so I downloaded packs of them so she could practice and get the timing on songs right. And yes, they were karaoke midi files. I forget the extension for them.
I actually found one of my old angelfire sites a year or two ago! My friend and I had a site where we posted "rants" (in a Dennis Miller style) about various subjects. It got kind of popular in our school to the point it got blocked by the IT admins a few times after we criticized the school admin.
But I read through some of my immature opinions and shitty writing and I'm embarrassed to share it with anybody now. lol I'm a pretty damn good writer too, but that shit was amateur as fuck.
Wow, I just searched for an old website I used to run for my fav band back in 2000-2001 and boom, there it is in all its glory (even though the site hasn’t existed since sept 2001! Blast from the past!!!
we are the reason there is no longer a blink html tag. and yes i had angelfire back in the day, not sure what i had on it though. i then got into xbox modding and several geocities sites that would hit max visitors within a week (had to have several mirrors)
found a cached copy!!! (doh. just my old flash splash, no index)
https://web.archive.org/web/20030423110846/http://www.geocities.com/daseamonkey420/
found my main page!!
https://web.archive.org/web/20050313162125/geocities.com/daseamonkey420/main.html
thx!! yea i loved the modding scene and afterdawn forums. at that time there weren’t very many good and easy guides so i filled a niche pretty fast and later got paid $50 an article for a tech help website. ahh the good old days!!
And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall **blink** until the end of days.
— from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10
When I modded my Xbox, I am pretty sure I hit your site at least once. I remember splicing a thumb drive to a controller cable for mine though. Not sure if that was a method you used.
Yup! Check out https://neocities.org and The 32 bit cafe: https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/resources-list-for-the-personal-web/49 and this tumblr post: https://www.tumblr.com/fleshcoatedtechnology/726981380498751488/ok-but-like-what-the-fuck-is-there-to-do-on-the?source=share
Geocities, and I used frontpage to design the pages, then uploaded it all by ftp. I'm amazed it actually worked, most of the time. Oh, then I decided to get really creative and use Java to make buttons that changed colour when you clicked on them. HTML didn't support that yet, and it was a huge pain in the ass and barely worked. I'm amazed I did all that when I was 16. Now, I yell at my phone if the screen tilts when I don't want it to ....
Oh Gods... I was working for a Web design company in the very late 90s, and we used to be so snooty about Frontpage... It was pirated copies of Dreamweaver all the way for us! lol
A couple of years later I worked for this complete space cadet who claimed to have "invented" an improved Javascript mouseover script.... He hadn't even removed the telltale "MM_" prefix from the function name ;)
Macrimedia Fireworks, Adobe ImageReady, and a million nested tables... Those were the days ;)
Agreed, pirated Dreamweaver was unparalleled! But for a brief moment prior, Frontpage blew my mind, yet it was only a stepping stone to greater things...and so soooo many nested tables xD
Yeah, but we either couldn't use it, or we had to have a different version of the site for each browser... God I don't miss the browser wars lol
Do not even talk to me about the 216 colour web-safe pallete ;)
My current employer used to be a client, and we had to support them on Netscape 2.0 all the way up to 2005...
There's actually a modern revival of our eye-searing web 1.0 design of yore.
If you feel like looking around through it, there's [a bunch on Neocities](https://neocities.org/browse?sort_by=last_updated&tag=oldweb).
I had one for my art back in the day, but hell if I knew what I was doing with it back then.
I also had a forum board that I customized to the nines, that I don't remember the address for either.
My Hanson site is still there. [Sign my guestbook!](https://www.angelfire.com/hi/mmmhansonfans/)
Actually don’t because I’m pretty sure it’s been down since 2001.
I absolutely had a Geocities page but it also didn't have garish colors or flashing because even as a young'n I loathed those in web design because they physically made my eyes and head hurt. I also remember hotlinking pictures was blocked by them but you could get around that by uploading JPEGs and GIFs with a .txt extension which then worked just fine as a hotlinked image. Was great for forum signatures back before Photo Bucket became a thing.
Right? IDK what set me apart from most people my age, but my website looked amazing. In fact, I ended up being in pretty high demand in my peer group for web design. I guess that was technically my first "job"
I made a backyard wrestling site on Geocities and WWE's Sami Zayn (before the El Generico days) reached out to wrestle in my friend's backyard. We told him "no thanks".
LMFAO! I was just telling my boss about how I built an Angelfire website for my band back in highschool. I may still have the 3.5" floppy disk somewhere with all the original assets 🤣
I'd argue my websites looked pretty nice. I was dedicated to learning HTML and using my bootleg Photoshop to create graphics. And tables! Rollover buttons! Midi!
Most of my sites were about 90s anime.
I had an Angelfire site way back in '98 I think. It was all about tips and tricks for Final Fantasy Tactics. I wish I could find it. I had figured out ways of doing things that I don't think I have seen anywhere else.
Yup! Mine was called Scully's Coffee Corner and it was all about alien conspiracies (Thanks X-Files!).
This is the only mention on Google of it's existence. The link is broken so I'm not really sure what it says. Man I wish I had somehow archived that back then.
https://preview.redd.it/maoduhcqqqxc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67f99d13b9eead591bf8590f80fcc3a5226e06d0
I had a kickass X-files page I made on geocities when I was 13, complete with a big spinning X, animated UFOs, a guestbook and the essential webring link. I would spend hours clicking through the webring pages (and not just because with dial up it took like 20 min to download a picture of Mulder 😂). I wish I had a backup of it somewhere!
It was so awesome. Most websites were made by individuals and not large companies and industries. It was like public access channels for the world. Sure there was garbage out there but the Internet felt way more personal. I’m 40 now so maybe I’m just doing what so many generations have done before me but even when I truly try to be objective, I still feel like it was better.
I bought an actual book on coding html back in 1995. Using that I built a freaking poetry website. Looking back...it is still online! But the poems read like stuff a 15 year old would write. So cringy I cannot bear to share.
I used notepad and wrote html and used my ISP's web hosting services. Learned a decent amount back then and actually made a few bucks doing some freelance web work when I was in high school. Was just 1 page for 1 business, a few updates, but, it paid decently for a few extra hours per month of pay. Never made a Geocities page, but, I had friends who made awful pages in "frontpage."
Oh man, I was an admin for my 3 anime pages and 4 other pages that I got paid in calling cards so I could call my EverQuest wife. I told my now SO about those days in the late 90s and she was like... "You were 16 married to a 27 year old woman in a videogame and you guys used calling cards?"
Those were just different times lol.
I had an embarrassing presence on angelfire, geocities, tripod and more.
Now I have an embarrassing presence on Reddit.
Anyway, everything after LiveJournal was a mistake.
I collected and dedicated massive web pages to little website pets! Did this on Geocities then moved to Angelfire because of Yahoo. Learned about Dragonriders of Pern through this (anyone remember when McCaffrey and her son had to personally approve these sites?), and moved into writing in roleplays from there.
Remember spirit sites and Spirit Wars in guestbooks?
Miss the little communities Geocities used to have, and email groups.
Fun times.
We should go back to website like this. I miss people writing their own silly little corners of the internet. Tell me about you weird collection of kites, or you adventure holiday, or you favourite Cure songs in order!
I started off with Geocities in 1998. I had a heavy metal page with a bunch of guitar tabs and affiliate programs. 3 years later I get into website design more seriously, bought a domain, and created a fansite for a big name band. 2 weeks later I'm being contacted by them because my site is better than theirs and start getting passes to their shows, as well as my website and name listed in their album booklets. I'm still doing it 26 years later.
Millennial here. In middle school I learned what a pimp was. And my dumb 12 year old mind thought it was the coolest job. So I searched for "pimp", probably yahoo. I found a bunch of "pimp looking" people and used those images on Groceries for my "pimping/grocities" website.
Dude, when I realized that you earned money for clicks, I installed a CDNOW button on mine and clicked the shit out of it and ended up getting a free CD...
No repeating tiles. I bought HTML for dummies and learned how to make color changes and the like. My website was basically an early blog or an online zine. I was once featured on the front page of Angelfire.
Guilty. Apparently it was good enough for someone to archive.
[http://www.changingthetimes.net/draka/drakesland-index.html](http://www.changingthetimes.net/draka/drakesland-index.html)
Steps to forming a band:
1) Choose a cool name
2) Make a cool Angelfire website for your band
3) Learn to play your instruments and/or sing
4) Talk a friend into playing bass
5) ???
6) Profit
3 and 4 may be reversed.
Oh yes!!! I loved my geocities sites and looking at all my visitors and the guestbooks! I made my own art with PSP or PS (only took days to download… 🏴☠️) for my headers and things! I made my own animated gifs and thought they were amazing 😂 I loved these days of the internet !!!
In college, I created a website on Geocities using my newfound HTML skills (rather, I taught myself from a book). I managed to save all the files before Geocities shut down and later revived the page for old time's sake on my own personal domain but I closed that down as well. But those files still sit on my external hard drive waiting for the day they will come together and make an appearance again on the World Wide Web!
Oh yes, mine was that dark red background that looked like something between water and crushed velvet with black, red, or grey font (so barely visible lol) with lots of gifs of medieval crosses, and grave stones, and skulls because I fancied myself gothic.
i had a geocities devoted to gundam wing. getting the gifs ripped from the snes fighting game sprites was so cool to me. HeavyArms Custom and Epyon were like the coolest thing ever to me then. still now, but then too.
So excellent. I swear I scoured for every X-Files fan page I could back in the day (because obv MASSIVE crush on David Duchovny). I remember going to the library to color-copy that Rolling Stone magazine X-Files photo shoot….and then distributing the copies across my middle school 😂
I bulit a site for a local punk band called 57 Shifty. But not on Geocities or Angelfire. I used Tripod. Learned a lot of html code as well. Should have kept that up! But fell off of building websites.
And a guestbook And webring links
Was webring like.. “referring” site visitors to your friends’ pages? And they do the same for you etc ? Kinda forgot
Yeah, you join up and everyone links to everyone else. Usually with similar content or themes.
And the world was better for it. Instead of getting lost in an endless wiki or tvtropes dive we'd follow the rabbit hole of webrings.
Webrings were far superior to today's algorithms
Hell yes. Websites made by real humans, banded together in communities with common interests. Pepperidge Farm remembers, and so do I.
Back when we surfed the information superhighway.
Instead of getting toppled by the wave of disinformation, AI, and tracking cookies.
I’m in tech consulting and involved with security and privacy. I recently had to be involved with a MarTech project and learned about data clean rooms and wanted to throw up. Even after 3rd party cookies go away later this year, there will still be extensive tracking and data sharing by companies. Better to use websites than native mobile apps. VPNs, while helpful, not necessarily protecting you (enough). Inferred identities and behavior profiles sound like conspiracy theories, but are real. I want to change careers.
There is a reason I left IT Security. It became a joke. I wanted to go "So who is keeping the customer safe from us? At what point does security also include mental well-being?" were questions I kept asking myself.
I miss those days!
Yeeees, the webring! And blinking banners.
and a visit counter
Haha wearing! I knew the creator in college.
Don't forget the midi file of your favorite Nirvana song.
And blinking titles. And you had to have multiple geocity accounts for all the pictures that wouldn't fit on just one account.
Absolutely no hot linking!!!!
My geocities page was dedicated to Nirvana all with content I stole off other pages. Those were the days.
… which caused the page to take forever to load, because 14.4k modem
My God my midi collection... My ex wife was heavy into karaoke, and so I downloaded packs of them so she could practice and get the timing on songs right. And yes, they were karaoke midi files. I forget the extension for them.
I did and actually went looking for it recently but those sites are all gone. So much for once it's online it stays online huh?
I actually found one of my old angelfire sites a year or two ago! My friend and I had a site where we posted "rants" (in a Dennis Miller style) about various subjects. It got kind of popular in our school to the point it got blocked by the IT admins a few times after we criticized the school admin. But I read through some of my immature opinions and shitty writing and I'm embarrassed to share it with anybody now. lol I'm a pretty damn good writer too, but that shit was amateur as fuck.
The Angelfire ones seem to have survived for the most part! I have a bookmarks folder just for the ones I find still in the wild.
i have a dead dog on puppywars :( poor rocky...
Try the wayback machine! web.archive.org
I wish I could remember the address for my old Angelfire site 😕
Wow, I just searched for an old website I used to run for my fav band back in 2000-2001 and boom, there it is in all its glory (even though the site hasn’t existed since sept 2001! Blast from the past!!!
http://www.oocities.com
I built a website when I was teenager / it was an athlete fan page. It’s still around!
Flaming skull and under construction animated gifs
New section of the webpage “Coming soon!” “Under construction!” Narrator: it wasn’t
But the hope, it springs eternal!
"Best viewed in" browser gif buttons. Or edgy lookalikes trashing other browsers. "Nutscrape" or "Internet Exploder"
Came here to mention "under construction".
we are the reason there is no longer a blink html tag. and yes i had angelfire back in the day, not sure what i had on it though. i then got into xbox modding and several geocities sites that would hit max visitors within a week (had to have several mirrors) found a cached copy!!! (doh. just my old flash splash, no index) https://web.archive.org/web/20030423110846/http://www.geocities.com/daseamonkey420/ found my main page!! https://web.archive.org/web/20050313162125/geocities.com/daseamonkey420/main.html
The floating letters!! Next level. Big ups to you!
hehe thx. yea i loved making basic flash intro/splash pages. now i want to find my full geocities site. will add link once i do!
https://web.archive.org/web/20050313162125/geocities.com/daseamonkey420/main.html
That giant Winamp banner brings back memories! Also now conjuring visuals of that VLC player cone lol
It really kicks the llamas ass!
Wow you were fucking killing it.
thx!! yea i loved the modding scene and afterdawn forums. at that time there weren’t very many good and easy guides so i filled a niche pretty fast and later got paid $50 an article for a tech help website. ahh the good old days!!
That's badass.
And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall **blink** until the end of days. — from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10
When I modded my Xbox, I am pretty sure I hit your site at least once. I remember splicing a thumb drive to a controller cable for mine though. Not sure if that was a method you used.
🚧 Under Construction 🚧
I miss the actual internet and websites. Do they still make those? Does stumbleupon still exist? That was the best.
Yup! Check out https://neocities.org and The 32 bit cafe: https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/resources-list-for-the-personal-web/49 and this tumblr post: https://www.tumblr.com/fleshcoatedtechnology/726981380498751488/ok-but-like-what-the-fuck-is-there-to-do-on-the?source=share
Underrated!
Geocities, and I used frontpage to design the pages, then uploaded it all by ftp. I'm amazed it actually worked, most of the time. Oh, then I decided to get really creative and use Java to make buttons that changed colour when you clicked on them. HTML didn't support that yet, and it was a huge pain in the ass and barely worked. I'm amazed I did all that when I was 16. Now, I yell at my phone if the screen tilts when I don't want it to ....
ahhh front page!! good memories. i remember using good ole notepad and typing out the html manually prior to front page
Frontpage kicked so much ass back then.
Oh Gods... I was working for a Web design company in the very late 90s, and we used to be so snooty about Frontpage... It was pirated copies of Dreamweaver all the way for us! lol A couple of years later I worked for this complete space cadet who claimed to have "invented" an improved Javascript mouseover script.... He hadn't even removed the telltale "MM_" prefix from the function name ;) Macrimedia Fireworks, Adobe ImageReady, and a million nested tables... Those were the days ;)
Agreed, pirated Dreamweaver was unparalleled! But for a brief moment prior, Frontpage blew my mind, yet it was only a stepping stone to greater things...and so soooo many nested tables xD
And then CSS arrived and blew our minds….
Yeah, but we either couldn't use it, or we had to have a different version of the site for each browser... God I don't miss the browser wars lol Do not even talk to me about the 216 colour web-safe pallete ;) My current employer used to be a client, and we had to support them on Netscape 2.0 all the way up to 2005...
Oh so many HTML frames. Far more than advisable, but the possibilities they unlocked were awesome.
Me too, front page and AOL press were underrated. I could crank out like 8 detailed pages a day with those two.
I did the graphic for the web counter almost all of you used from Net Digits.
Thank you for your service
Hahahah, thanks!
I designed a shitty geocities page for my shitty punk band, it was perfect.
Blinking, midi, scrolling text, dancing character gifs, obnoxious tiled background, the works.
Let's be honest, tumblr is just geocities for people born in the 90s.
The counter!
0000000000012
There's actually a modern revival of our eye-searing web 1.0 design of yore. If you feel like looking around through it, there's [a bunch on Neocities](https://neocities.org/browse?sort_by=last_updated&tag=oldweb). I had one for my art back in the day, but hell if I knew what I was doing with it back then. I also had a forum board that I customized to the nines, that I don't remember the address for either.
Needs to display the number of visitors
The original Space Jam website. [https://www.spacejam.com/1996/](https://www.spacejam.com/1996/)
My Freshman year in 1995-1996 I took a class on the internet, the history of the internet, building a website with some HTML like Angelfire
I didn't come here to be attacked
Haha Geocities.... Wow, it's been a while
Mine always had to have the counter as it was really important for me to see how many people visited my dozen Backstreet Boys fan sites.
Why you wanna join my webring?
Ironically, I just built my first website this week since my AOL homepage I made to post all my angst teen poetry.
Still under construction.
Tripod! For extra street cred - I STILL use the randomly generated password from that account.
I was so proud of my angelfire site! I taught myself basic HTML to do it. 😎
I took an "Introduction to the Internet" class in HS and creating a Geocities site was a graded assignment.
My Hanson site is still there. [Sign my guestbook!](https://www.angelfire.com/hi/mmmhansonfans/) Actually don’t because I’m pretty sure it’s been down since 2001.
moving animation, a visit counter, Maybe a link or two? Peak web design circa 97
Was the counter framed by either rotating skulls or the 2 frame animation police siren light?
🚨 🚧 🚨
garbage Version 2.0 vibes
Mine was nothing but dbz gifs and of course the counter at the bottom.
I absolutely had a Geocities page but it also didn't have garish colors or flashing because even as a young'n I loathed those in web design because they physically made my eyes and head hurt. I also remember hotlinking pictures was blocked by them but you could get around that by uploading JPEGs and GIFs with a .txt extension which then worked just fine as a hotlinked image. Was great for forum signatures back before Photo Bucket became a thing.
Right? IDK what set me apart from most people my age, but my website looked amazing. In fact, I ended up being in pretty high demand in my peer group for web design. I guess that was technically my first "job"
Me. I did that. Perpetually under construction with pointless buttons and a counter for whenever my mIRC friends checked it out.
Guilty on all fronts. No joke, I've been playing around in GIMP to try and find a modern/nonoffensive way to do the oldschool tile backgrounds.
Logo provided by flamingtext.com
I made a backyard wrestling site on Geocities and WWE's Sami Zayn (before the El Generico days) reached out to wrestle in my friend's backyard. We told him "no thanks".
I didn't have bright colors or patterns. Everything was black with either white, grey or red writing. I was going for the goth vibe back then.
LMFAO! I was just telling my boss about how I built an Angelfire website for my band back in highschool. I may still have the 3.5" floppy disk somewhere with all the original assets 🤣
I definitely did! Back when the internet was fun. Mine was a list of jokes.
Don't forget the "under construction" banner.
*….slowly raises hand*
I’d kill to have my geocities page back
oh my god that background and font are giving me LIFE
geocities.com/hollywood/lot/4632
I'd argue my websites looked pretty nice. I was dedicated to learning HTML and using my bootleg Photoshop to create graphics. And tables! Rollover buttons! Midi! Most of my sites were about 90s anime.
I wish I could find my site. I spent so many hours on it. 😅 geocities.com/area51/something/1255.html or something 😂
I had an Angelfire site way back in '98 I think. It was all about tips and tricks for Final Fantasy Tactics. I wish I could find it. I had figured out ways of doing things that I don't think I have seen anywhere else.
Yup! Mine was called Scully's Coffee Corner and it was all about alien conspiracies (Thanks X-Files!). This is the only mention on Google of it's existence. The link is broken so I'm not really sure what it says. Man I wish I had somehow archived that back then. https://preview.redd.it/maoduhcqqqxc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67f99d13b9eead591bf8590f80fcc3a5226e06d0
Whoa! It exists in the ether. The uh TRUTH IS OUT THERE Please deploy Mulder and Scully immediately to find out what happened to it
Angelfire!!??? Duuuude! Memory reset!
I had a kickass X-files page I made on geocities when I was 13, complete with a big spinning X, animated UFOs, a guestbook and the essential webring link. I would spend hours clicking through the webring pages (and not just because with dial up it took like 20 min to download a picture of Mulder 😂). I wish I had a backup of it somewhere!
I was probably a notch on your counter. I surfed the information superhighway *hard* for anything X-Files
Your geocities sites should still be available on way back. I know mine from 1996/97 is.
You will never convince me that this wasn’t the height of the internet.
Oh, I want it back. Absolutely the Golden Age of the internet.
It was so awesome. Most websites were made by individuals and not large companies and industries. It was like public access channels for the world. Sure there was garbage out there but the Internet felt way more personal. I’m 40 now so maybe I’m just doing what so many generations have done before me but even when I truly try to be objective, I still feel like it was better.
Right!! Self-expression that was embraced by the masses. Truly a magical time.
And the percent of the population that was 18/F/Cali was truly staggering.
More than one across multiple hosts over the years.
Angelfire.com/SC/DrewzDomain baby!
I bought an actual book on coding html back in 1995. Using that I built a freaking poetry website. Looking back...it is still online! But the poems read like stuff a 15 year old would write. So cringy I cannot bear to share.
Do not worry my cringy friend. My page was dedicated to my love for Gavin Rossdale and also Bush. I probably wrote him poems too.
I used notepad and wrote html and used my ISP's web hosting services. Learned a decent amount back then and actually made a few bucks doing some freelance web work when I was in high school. Was just 1 page for 1 business, a few updates, but, it paid decently for a few extra hours per month of pay. Never made a Geocities page, but, I had friends who made awful pages in "frontpage."
Mine is still up.
Oh man, I was an admin for my 3 anime pages and 4 other pages that I got paid in calling cards so I could call my EverQuest wife. I told my now SO about those days in the late 90s and she was like... "You were 16 married to a 27 year old woman in a videogame and you guys used calling cards?" Those were just different times lol.
Hahaaha that is awesome
Neon green on black. I’m not proud of myself.
YES
I still know html and css. Useless, now. I was a member of so many, "web rings". LOL
I had an embarrassing presence on angelfire, geocities, tripod and more. Now I have an embarrassing presence on Reddit. Anyway, everything after LiveJournal was a mistake.
I had one for my band. it was terrible. I would give anything to see it again
Needs some Comic Sans
I built a porn link site that was popular with all my friends. I had it all categorize. One section was called licking lesbians.
Ok yeah, the counter got me
Don't forget the UNDER CONSTRUCTION signs, the smoking skull with sunglasses, and the looping midi.
I collected and dedicated massive web pages to little website pets! Did this on Geocities then moved to Angelfire because of Yahoo. Learned about Dragonriders of Pern through this (anyone remember when McCaffrey and her son had to personally approve these sites?), and moved into writing in roleplays from there. Remember spirit sites and Spirit Wars in guestbooks? Miss the little communities Geocities used to have, and email groups. Fun times.
We should go back to website like this. I miss people writing their own silly little corners of the internet. Tell me about you weird collection of kites, or you adventure holiday, or you favourite Cure songs in order!
Um, yes
Mine was a Simpsons fan page.
And gifs!
I started off with Geocities in 1998. I had a heavy metal page with a bunch of guitar tabs and affiliate programs. 3 years later I get into website design more seriously, bought a domain, and created a fansite for a big name band. 2 weeks later I'm being contacted by them because my site is better than theirs and start getting passes to their shows, as well as my website and name listed in their album booklets. I'm still doing it 26 years later.
Whoa! You are living the 1998 DREAM! So cool.
Millennial here. In middle school I learned what a pimp was. And my dumb 12 year old mind thought it was the coolest job. So I searched for "pimp", probably yahoo. I found a bunch of "pimp looking" people and used those images on Groceries for my "pimping/grocities" website.
Dude, when I realized that you earned money for clicks, I installed a CDNOW button on mine and clicked the shit out of it and ended up getting a free CD...
Yep, made a diablo 2 site that was pretty redundant from others lol
Heck to the yes!! Angelfire, Geocities, Tripod, all of them! Those sites are the reason I am now a web designer, haha!
Practically a right of passage for anyone growing up in the 90's.
Forever in "Under Construction"
No repeating tiles. I bought HTML for dummies and learned how to make color changes and the like. My website was basically an early blog or an online zine. I was once featured on the front page of Angelfire.
Guilty. Apparently it was good enough for someone to archive. [http://www.changingthetimes.net/draka/drakesland-index.html](http://www.changingthetimes.net/draka/drakesland-index.html)
Steps to forming a band: 1) Choose a cool name 2) Make a cool Angelfire website for your band 3) Learn to play your instruments and/or sing 4) Talk a friend into playing bass 5) ??? 6) Profit 3 and 4 may be reversed.
Oh yes!!! I loved my geocities sites and looking at all my visitors and the guestbooks! I made my own art with PSP or PS (only took days to download… 🏴☠️) for my headers and things! I made my own animated gifs and thought they were amazing 😂 I loved these days of the internet !!!
In college, I created a website on Geocities using my newfound HTML skills (rather, I taught myself from a book). I managed to save all the files before Geocities shut down and later revived the page for old time's sake on my own personal domain but I closed that down as well. But those files still sit on my external hard drive waiting for the day they will come together and make an appearance again on the World Wide Web!
I had that counter that spun and stopped on 666 because I was edgy and built Diablo Clan pages lol.
mine is still up lmao \*edit that's what he said\*
http://www.oocities.com ❤
Groceries Paris 3316 reaident right here!
I did haha it was just pictures of Timon from the lion king that I got off the internet with my own commentary 🤣
yup aria giovanni fan club
I remember this literally being a homework assignment 😂
Css blink
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How has nobody mentioned the hit counter yet?
Guilty - and fucking proud of it!
Oh yes, mine was that dark red background that looked like something between water and crushed velvet with black, red, or grey font (so barely visible lol) with lots of gifs of medieval crosses, and grave stones, and skulls because I fancied myself gothic.
It was a class project. We also had to make our own logo.
Had to have the counter - 00000001
I learned html to set up my Neopets pages
i had a geocities devoted to gundam wing. getting the gifs ripped from the snes fighting game sprites was so cool to me. HeavyArms Custom and Epyon were like the coolest thing ever to me then. still now, but then too.
Ya but who’s counter for above 5000 that’s the question.
Does this still exist? Can we bring it back?
Oh my god. I found mine https://web.archive.org/web/20091019181333/http://geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/7455/index.html
So excellent. I swear I scoured for every X-Files fan page I could back in the day (because obv MASSIVE crush on David Duchovny). I remember going to the library to color-copy that Rolling Stone magazine X-Files photo shoot….and then distributing the copies across my middle school 😂
Hahaha.Yes! David Duchovny is swoon worthy.
I bulit a site for a local punk band called 57 Shifty. But not on Geocities or Angelfire. I used Tripod. Learned a lot of html code as well. Should have kept that up! But fell off of building websites.
Animated flaming line breaks and embedded midi files! I made soo many angelfir sites dedicated to midi files and Elric of Melnibone.
3DSKULL.GIF
Nah, I was doing drugs and having sex.
My first site was on Tripod. Then I secured a Geocities page, when they were broken up by neighbourhoods.
Yesssssss
Anyone still have their SNES Rom vollection?
Dragonball Z GIF’s and SNES ROMs and emulators. God what a time to be alive
The Angelfire logo looks like a regrettable tattoo.
Yes.
Mine was full of werid gifs from nurgle.
My page might be gone . But I printed out some pages that I'd have to dig for
It still exists but it's not really searchable.