Shit man… I made a fan page for Mega Man on geocities when I was like 9 just because I COULD. So many memories 🥹

This was the era of a thousand non-closeable pop ups and flashing banners. I would much rather a targeted ad than that shit.

Oh angel fire brings back memory- Infoseek or Alta vista to find it

(c) Copyright 1998

The collective sigh from the world as we appeared to move away from the threat of nuclear annihilation to the chance of a cooperative global system was pretty dope.

Autumn of 2001 to the headlines of today pretty much took away that delusion.

That's certainly true, but the arrival of real world divisions also hurt the online space.

At that time, the internet was the tribe. Certainly some exceptions, but there was a general sense of commonality online back then. We were all still sort of the weirdos who made the place go.

As the internet became a widely used corporate mass media space, it seemed to lead to the hostility, acrimony, and division we see in the "real world." I wonder sometimes if the need for market segmentation was pushed online for purposes of creating advertising demographics.

What kind of stupid question is that?

Needs a mobile version

I have nipples, Greg. Can you milk me?

I remember discovering the BLINK tag in HTML. Oh man...

I'm a sucker for this kind of thing. So much nostalgia for the little moment in time. I made my own little cruddy page and had music on it. I miss this time period but then again I had dial up and was a super soft cringy teen. Oh fuck it I love it.

Just like the old days!

It’s a custom Python CLI that scrapes movie data and generates a static JSON file with the data. Then another Python file that generates all the static HTML files. Some GIFs, CSS, and JS for interactivity. All static and hosted off an old MacBook behind Cloudflare CDN for fast delivery.

People will say you’re being too nostalgic but I too pine for the days when the internet was an amazing invention with unlimited possibilities instead of a lingering threat to democracy, and young middle class people had a good life and hope for the future.

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Oh man this reminds me of the Halloween does we would visit in 3rd grade computer class.

“The Others” on maybe? That movie is the shit

Sadly, most of them have just like 2-3 pages including 'About me' and 'Contact', so you read at most 300 words on a whole website : /

Sorry, but that table needs to be a fixed width html table that looks terrible on mobile for this to be believable.

yeah the list is fine, I was just being facetious lol. But The Monster Squad does deserve a spot on here.

I like the list, but yeah that's a glaring omission

Oh man, those command and conquer sessions were the best!

Wow, I'm having legitimate flashbacks to the first websites I crafted for no reason whatsoever back in the 90s. Also, excellent list!

Ahh I remember those. Where you could just left click then right click to bypass lol

My friends and I made a stupid geocities site that had no purpose other than to make each other laugh. It was the most random collection of stuff but hanging around in the forums was one of the most fun times ever. Miss the optimism of that early internet.