[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070515090557/http://www.maxpag...

SSI changed my life, and I coded a 50 page website in a textarea. on 28.8. In the snow. Without shoes.

Not much has changed. I use vim now.

What a sucker I was! Good thing PHP came along and taught us all what true webmastery is.

1998. Hell, I think I still have this book laying around somewhere. I got it at a book fair in elementary school and from then on out I was always making one stupid webpage or another. Until I discovered Java of course.

I remember using the 1x1 graphic a lot, combined with complex tables, and even other stuff. Of course, even before CSS, you could do a lot and at first I really didn't get the point of CSS... I think that IE6, not IE4 was the first good browser. Yeah, it was despised a half a decade later, but at the time it was the best available. IMHO the Netscape 4.0.x-4.2.x was probably the most horrible ever in terms of bugginess and imho solely responsible for IE's dominance.

What we have today, even without the likes of jQuery is SO much better than the mid-late 90's.

This was pre-ebay, about 1995. Wish I had stuck with it in retrospect: ebay started very similarly.

Still after all these years, the scars earned in web development projects, make me jump of joy when I get to do native desktop stuff instead.

It's not nearly as bad as the bad old days so to speak, and a lot of things can be very clean and elegant.

My pages from back then (it must have been 1996 or 1997) were hosted at the local ISP, and they've since disappeared into the mists of time, but I definitely had a <marquee> with other tags nested inside. More importantly, I was making my first forays into programming... in VBScript and JScript. I soon moved on to "real" languages, but now we've come full circle, and JavaScript in the browser is the place to be again.

Can't forget about the Paint Shop Pro animated graphics!

[1] http://pika299.tripod.com/

http://gmcbay.tripod.com/

And my OpenGL driver for the Genesis engine.. the download zip of source code even still works:

http://gmcbay.tripod.com/oldindex.html

Pretty funny trip down nostalgia lane, including a reference to my very old [email protected] email address... I still miss you, Deja News. Google Groups is not the same.

I remember my dad saying that if I got a domain name and it got popular, I could rake in tonnes from sponsorship. I was amazed. I asked him if he could buy me a domain. He said no :( In fairness, I was only 10...

What's quite funny is that I actually work for a company that has essentially done the above and actually provides a big portion of revenue. The pages are not much better quality either (they need more <blink> tag imo).

http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/charmander/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Internet_User's_Guide_and...

ahh... memories :)

I even remember the exact full URL of the website[0]. But between the demise of Geocities and the demise of my 386's hard drive, that piece of nostalgia is gone forever.

I remember dedicating a page to all of the different "strategies" to catch Mew in Gen I games, before we all collectively decided that this was impossible to do without a Gameshark[1]. Little did we know that there was a technique - it just wouldn't be discovered until ~2003[2]]!

[0] For those just tuning in this century, Geocities would provide webspace (that's a word I haven't used in a while!) and your homepage would be a URL of the format http://www.geocities.com/Foo/Bar/1234

[1] "When I was your age, Action Replay was a Gameshark..."

[2] http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mew_glitch

https://archive.org/web/geocities.php

There was a huge push on archiveteam to scrape as much as they could before it was shut down. If it was saved it'll have the same url on reocities

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=GeoCities

The file was huge, about several hundred gigabyte. I didn't download it, because I don't have enough space and downloading it would take ages with my slow connection.

On http://reocities.com/ you can browse through some of the old pages and sites, but many things are broken now, missing images.

https://web.archive.org/web/20000510132913/http://poketown.o...

Looks like I was a pattern of grid design (ala tables) back then.

Maybe Pokemon can be the new Hello World.

I still remember sitting there hours and days banging my head on the table how to get this school logo exactly in the center at the top of the page where it had to stay visible even if the page was scrolled, because "it has to be up there. And it must be always visible." Fun times.