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-REDDIT-USERNAME- t1_iu9hjx7 wrote

It's stupid how much I miss this era of the world wide web. Everything was fun and new.

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Indie_Undies t1_iu9o4mh wrote

I recommend you to check out sites hosted in neocities. Most people there try to replicate the retro feeling.

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kunegard t1_iuacy3d wrote

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 : /

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Ripcord t1_iubisjo wrote

And all of them have "welcome to my homepage!" And "don't forget to sign my guestbook!". And I bet a few have "have you considered changing long distance carriers to MCI?"

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ouralarmclock t1_iubu3z2 wrote

“This website is meant to be viewed in [Internet Explorer]”

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turd_boy t1_iud22om wrote

Who has "Internet Explorer"? Everyone has AOL bruh, its the future...

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bmwiedemann t1_iubyrkv wrote

Do they also have "under construction" notices like in the good old days?

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Indie_Undies t1_iuduslj wrote

I guarantee you that you will stumble upon several of those.

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dirtynj t1_iua7fjv wrote

Before ads ruined the web.

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MC_Fap_Commander t1_iuandf2 wrote

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.

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deathlydope t1_iuav8yn wrote

> 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.

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MC_Fap_Commander t1_iuaw581 wrote

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.

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BeatlesTypeBeat t1_iub97p9 wrote

No one claims to be a netizen anymore.

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PandaMoveCtor t1_iuarh4v wrote

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

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dirtynj t1_iub407f wrote

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

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RogueDevlin t1_iucd68v wrote

I also hate the "you cannot see this in your region"...

The internet was supposed to be a borderless space...

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2_Spicy_2_Impeach t1_iu9qq98 wrote

It was a fun time. I remember using Angelfire, Xoom, and Hypermart for hosting.

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soursourkarma t1_iu9vftz wrote

Gotta spread your website across several hosting sites because they only gave a few mb of storage each. 🙂

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2_Spicy_2_Impeach t1_iu9wljz wrote

In my younger/asshole years, I used to write toolkits used for nefarious purposes and those files add up. :)

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greenappletree t1_iuaqtt7 wrote

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

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ccaccus t1_iua0z9d wrote

Tripod was my host of choice... until I got a friend who let me have a subdomain on his site!

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shinigamiscall t1_iua32bw wrote

The only thing I don't miss from back then is how easy it was to get viruses/malware. These days you have to actively get that stuff on your device. (Or be an idiot)

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return2ozma t1_iuakm9w wrote

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

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Simicrop t1_iuavbiw wrote

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

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why_rob_y t1_iuazy5f wrote

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

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c0ld_a5_1ce t1_iuc4w4v wrote

RIP homestead.com 🥹 It was so easy to make so many fun, funky late 90s websites

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