I miss the old internet. The beautiful people are in charge

Re:I miss the old internet. The beautiful people are in charge by anthk on Monday October 17, 2022 @09:25PM (#33241893)

A lot of Neocities pages are full of JS...

It's better to seek out pages at http://wiby.me

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Re:I miss the old internet. The beautiful people are in charge by graypegg on Monday October 17, 2022 @09:57PM (#33242094)

I find myself missing the creativity and passion of the old internet, rather than the specifics of how they were built. Is it really so bad that these sites have some scripting involved?

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Re:I miss the old internet. The beautiful people are in charge by heynowheynow on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @12:47AM (#33243076)

I miss Netscape on Windows 3.1 on a 4:3 CRT monitor in 256 colors with red on yellow Comic Sans bold italic H1 blink tag marquee with an unnecessary trail of ellipses scrolling left to right with 3 iframes with Java and Flash applets with a redirect to goatse.

But seriously, I miss Pythonline, gopher, finger, IRC, and sunsite.

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Re:I miss the old internet. The beautiful people are in charge by anthk on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @02:35PM (#33251884)

IRC is still up, from Libera.chat (ex-Freenode) to efnet and so on. Gopher has lots of usage at gopher://sdf.org, gopher://magical.fish and gopher://floodgap.org.

On Sunsite, Ibiblio it's still up. And Slashdot.

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Re:I miss the old internet. The beautiful people are in charge by heynowheynow on Saturday October 29, 2022 @03:00PM (#33386973)

Without VRML97, we wouldn't have PNG. Ah the bad old days. Netsplit!

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Re:I miss the old internet. The beautiful people are in charge by MisterSandman on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:30AM (#33248848)

Why is JS mutually exclusive to the old web?

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