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weissbraeu@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet

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GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet

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weissbraeu@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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GeoCities, known throughout most of 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, was one of the first commercial internet services to make it easy for people to publish a home page on the World Wide Web.
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    God I miss this time on the web

    • Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world
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      In hear you! Man did i fucked around. Made a website with no real info, because what could i tell the world als a 12-15 year old.

      Use notepad to write html. All different folders with home as the most important

      It had a counter how often the site was visited (it was mostly me)

      And the account name was .tk (?) because it was free

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        I remember tk domains being free, yep

      • toynbee@lemmy.world
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        Made a website with no real info, because what could i tell the world als a 12-15 year old.

        I’m in the same situation at almost forty.

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    May my first website be forever under construction.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      Complete with gif of a construction sign thats animated for some reason.

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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        The “some reason” is that it was cool, modern, hip, and cutting edge.

        Case in point.

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        …animated for some reason

        Our scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

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    It was a better time back then

  • mesamunefire@lemmy.world
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    Neocities is now a thing if anyone wants to check it out

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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      It’s a dot org site, by the way. The dot com was malware at one point, so just be careful.

      Edit: the dot com seems to no longer be registered, so I guess you don’t have to be that careful anymore lol

    • BackwardsUntoDawn@lemm.ee
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      my home internet was out for a few days, discovering and browsing Neocities on a mobile hotspot limited to 256kbps was a vibe

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    I would love to recover my old GeoCities page somehow. I even remember the neighbourhood it was in. It was all about how cool hockey, Godzilla, and Warcraft 2 is

    • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
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      Give this a shot maybe? I know there’s some other archive collections as well you could try digging into.

      https://geocities.restorativland.org/

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        I’m not sure I remember the address. Might have to spend a bunch of time on this archive today.

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      Mine was in the Athens/Acropolis area.

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    Big nostalgia feels. The internet was so good back then.

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    It saddens me that this is either meant to remind people of the way things were, or it teaches them a world they never knew.

    1995 me would have been excited to see what crazy stuff is on the 2025 internet. 2025 me realizes it’s just a digital version of a carnival scam. Hot singles in your area is just the ring toss game. Give them your money, and then you lose.

    The 90s were just factually a better time. Biggest controversy about our president at that time was that our president got blowjobs.

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      Biggest controversy about our president at that time was that our president got blowjobs.

      Consensual blow jobs.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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      1995 me would have been excited to see what crazy stuff is on the 2025 internet.

      And horrified at how it’s done.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    i was a sunset strip girlie!

    until i went to tripod, at least.

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      deleted by creator

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    Memooorreiiieeesss of having dozens of angel fire accounts to get around their 25 mb limit running a very cool, very legit download site. My bros had all the latest dojin fighters from comiket.

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    For those looking for some of that same nostalgia. neocities.org

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    TimesSquare/Alley was the place to be for gaming news. And webrings were more useful than search engines.

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    deleted by creator

  • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.net
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    Wow so many memories…

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    I sure do miss my Pokemon Geocities sites, with Poke Gods.

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    Break out of frames!

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