Really though! 2-3 pages and 300 words meant it was high time I opened up a new one.

Please tell me this uses tables. I want to believe…

I'd say early 2000's. In the 90's that 211KB site would've taken like 30 seconds to load

/end stupid nitpick

At least I got free dialup internet with NetZero for have that banner

Million Dollar Homepage was the turning point, IMO

It needs one of those little things that follow the cursor around.

I hope so

Good!

That’ll teach me.

The good old days.

This guy's page loads way too fast, though.

Ah, I used a classic 88x31 “caution under construction” banner next to the “works best on browsers” and “best viewed with hi-colors” banners.

Another report, thank you.

I’m impressed.

I legitimately can’t tell if you’re a really bad troll or a really good moron.

Reported

Be polite.

Lol nope.

I'm surprised you got that username.

Tsk. Forgot the "Under Construction" sign with the stick figure shovel guy.

It probably makes sense. Early internet was not user friendly or cheap so I think there was a bit of a selection bias in who used it. When online access was made as easy as tapping a phone button, a very different sort of population arrived online. They brought their identity biases with them. For a lot of us in the 90's, the internet was our identity.

Takes me back to my four person Starcraft clan that needed our own geocities website.

> 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.

Maybe, but it's just as likely an inherent side-effect of the increase in population online.

Website didn’t take 10+ minutes to load and I experienced 0 seizures. Immersion ruined.

Probably a kid. My students tend to think reddit is a teen thing and seem surprised that I have it. I've been on reddit since they were little kids ha.

Reddit has been around, and I've been on it, longer than the students we teach...

When I was teaching HTML classes back in the day... this was the crap that the cool, smart kids in class would come up with. When I gave them an A+ they would party like it was 1999!