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Parts of my old AngelFire website is still archived. A horrible mess of Comic Sans, black backgrounds with lime green and dark red or purple text, animated gifs, auto-playing sounds, frames and pretty much any and all features of HTML, especially things you never really saw being used like blinking and color changing text that wasn’t just an image.
Too bad none of the Klik’n’Play games I made and had uploaded there are able to be downloaded… I kinda want to be reminded exactly what the Pikachu virtual pet I made was like in all it’s cringe glory. Though Nintendo would probably be sending an army of lawyers up my ass rn if it was.
Is she sweating because she’s insecure about her knowledge, or is she sweating because she fears a followup question into WHAT she did?
For those interested Neocities is a modern equivalent. The homepage has some featured pages linked you can browse if you are looking to kill time.
Okay but that is adorable and true XD
The old internet taught us so many random skills. I couldn’t type on a keyboard for jack until I got into MMO’s back in the day, because it was pre voice comms. So I learned to type faster so I would struggle less XD
Master of all 22 elements
I don’t know why she’s nervous, she clearly knew the spec well and didn’t have to resort to modern abstraction frameworks to serve a simple static site.
Yeah totally
The absolute horseshit that things like Facebook consist of make me wonder if half the people who work on it have even made an HTML page from scratch.
Usually, no.
And she did it all in notepad
It’s overkill for static sites, but credit should be given to JSX for being a decent way to create DOM nodes dynamicly. You can use a JSX transformer without using React, too.
yeah, but if you don’t use wordpress to serve 3 static webpages, how will you get repeated business when it doesn’t get hacked in 3 years?
You obviously include a busy loop in JavaScript that takes exponentially more time each year. Then every few years you change the base year
Just make sure the exponential growth is faster than Moore’s law, or they might never notice it.
Moore’s law has stalled for years now. Single thread performance is still going up but taking around 1 decade to double.
The old internet was a wonderful place for learning.
And pain Olympics, but my rose coloured glasses are blocking that out right now.
Don’t apologize. That pain is exactly why millennials are so much more tech literate than boomers and gen Alpha.
don’t click that link! It could be a shitty song on Youtube
Zoomers
don’t click that link, if you’re lucky it’s just gay porn and we don’t have to format the drives
Millennials
The old internet is still there !internetisbeautiful@lemm.ee
Thank you.
(Also happy thanksgiving!)
Wow I was thinking about that just the other day (I remember it as “BME pain olympics”). I wonder if it’s still floating around out there? But TBH I don’t want to know.
Neopets, GaiaOnline, MySpace, to name the biggest three
Gaia online is a serious nostalgia trip wow
The logo! It’s on fire!
No shame in being self taught.
There should be pride in being self taught. Although it’s hard to do it hard (as in: do your own research).
My Angelfire page is still up. I check on it every few years.
The day Yahoo killed geocities was the day my innocence died.
<blink>love it! </blink>
Can I haz the link :3
So is mine!
I wish I still had my custom HTML from my MySpace page
Check archive.org
<marquee>cool cool cool</marquee>ee>cool cool cool</marquee><marqul cool cool</marquee><marquee>coo
<blink>welcome to my homepage</blink>
<img>under_construction.gif</img> <embed SRC="linkinpark_numb.midi" hidden=true autostart=true loop=1>That’s the extent I remember from grade school, had to make a homepage in like grade 5 and literally everyone had flaming text, crappy gifs, and horrible midi songs. Computer lab must have been a blast for the teachers.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21233033/how-can-i-create-a-marquee-effect
CSS3 and HTML. Not quite as simple as an easy tag, but you can party like it is 1999.
and geocities and myspace
That was 18 years ago?
I remember when forms were added. I think it was more than 18 years ago though. There were still WWW conventions at the time.
There were still WWW conventions at the time.
That didn’t help me feel younger
A common problem, I’m afraid.
