Oh god, Geocities e-federations with black background and neon fonts in tables. Nostalgia pangs are coming on heavy, I need to go lie down.

I'm so nostalgic for Geocities and Tripod and the rest. It was a good time.

The mid-ninties: It was innocent and simple, but you felt so technologically advanced to be able to publish something online. It wasn't about making millions. No one was judging your code. You used Java Applets to make dynamic menus and that was the pinnacle achievement. No one turned on Javascript. You only worried about Netscape and eventually IE, but you really didn't worry that much about either. You didn't think about domain squatting because you weren't sure how to get a domain and it really wasn't worth the cost, whatever it was. If you did, you got your name from Network Solutions or that startup, Register.com. CGI was for professionals. Perl was for scientists. You kinda checked email every couple weeks. You may have even shared an email address. You were ahead when you had a separate phone line for dial up. You were a big shot when you got DSL (from Phoenix). Your DSL was bought out every six months. It was Phoenix, then Earthlink, then... You got AOL CDs in the mail weekly. You remember gmail invites.

Edit: And this was your editor: http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.php

More succinctly: you were 20 years younger. That will always be a better time. :)

Except for The Doctor.

And don't forget those "Best viewed in" IE and Netscape gifs...

The 'Under Construction' gifs were even better

Geocities, Tripod, Angelfire.. oooh the memories

There is Neocities: https://neocities.org/ But the simplicity in the design is gone, possibly forever.

God forgive me, I forgot Angelfire. Thanks.

It was a simpler time! I miss it!

No kidding. I was bummed to find most of the links broken.