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- sbrown123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+117Oh yeah,
Remember those wonderful
BLINK tags,
Poorly animated GIFs
MIDI tunes
Java applets
Textured or black backgrounds with text colored so you could barely read them
...oh wait. I'm describing most of the MySpace universe. - ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+66Meanwhile, across the globe hundreds of ancient and long unused hit counters spring to life.
If anyone is watching them, I'm sure their sentiment can only be described as... "wtf?" - hypodermia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+55Anybody remember their first web page ? Mine was so pretentious.
- BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+38My first web page was all text (in all different sizes and colors) and full of animated .gifs I found on some other website. Its text consisted of stupid 12 year old misspellings about myself with lots of explanation points. I wonder if I can still find that site somewhere on anglefire.
- BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29Like this one! http://www.istanbul.tc/mahir/mahir/
- skeedawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26And this is what makes this experiment so much fun:
WELCOME TO MY WEBPAGE
Andrew Mack: An Odyssey Into Awesomeness
Welcome to my webpage. Face it, if you’ve come here, you are one of the select few who have achieved a level of sweetness so unmatched, it should be trademarked. From now on, if people aren’t lining up to give you high fives or hand you money out of respect you should re-evaluate your life. I’ve come to terms with my greatness and through years of living like royalty so will you friend. Give yourself a high five and slap the person next to you for not bowing at your feet. - cuwickliffe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>MY WEB SITE</TITLE>
<BODY>Give me a job. I can do Web pages.
</BODY>
</HTML>
... that seriously was my first Web site. God help me. - griz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Or, "WOW, it's like...I'm popular"
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20http://web.archive.org/web/20010721115446/http://members.home.net/tazu/
There's my old page, created in 1996 and last updated sometime in 1999. The Bachelor Life page is fairly amusing if I do say so myself. - antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Second result... http://homepages.stmartin.edu/fac_staff/lsipe/index.htm
God that is scary. - snurfle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15err... Exclamation points?
- SourWorm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Ahhh, my eyes! The goggles do nothing!
- griz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18What's the URL?
- cuwickliffe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13... and yes, the code was missing the closing head tag. I remember it gave me fits for an hour. ;P
- snurfle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Aaah, yes... back when the internets were still just the one internet.
The tubes were smaller then, too. - cannibaljp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12it's no less appealing than your average MySpace jank.
when i look at those old pages i see something great. people using a new technology and wondering if anybody will find them. sort of tossing their message in a bottle out into the ocean, and hoping for the best. every page (digg included) is trying to sell you something today. banners and advertising are enabling / ruining the web.
do you remember when you could go to a page that wasn't trying to sell you something? they just wanted to say hello... tell you about themselves... talk about things that they were passionate about...
this article / post has reminded me how much we have lost. - tHePeOPle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Well DiGG, now you've done it...
You've shown me "Andrew Mack: An Odyssey Into Awesomeness" ...
and TOTALLY redeemed yourself! - d7415, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Or, to find several million very similar pages, all in one place, try http://www.myspace.com/
It's yesterday's internet, today! - tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Holy crap, it is scary how similar that site is to Borats character. Even down to 'I like the sex'.
- ridgelawrence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11If myspace didnt exist, there would still be sites like that.
- thomasthecat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I think the truly scary thing is that a lot of the pages I'm seeing aren't dated to the birth of the internet at all. There's at least one in there that was updated in the last few months, and seems like several more were updated/posted in 2002 or 2003...
~shudder~ - herrshuster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10he has a BS in computer science....I'd say he has BS as his website
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I read that, and thought I was reading a script from Borat :|
- waynechng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Mine had a black background and java applet that typed out the contents of a .txt file that I update once in a while, letting friends know what was happening to me.. A friend recently pointed out that my old homepage was an early incarnation of a blog! Pretty cool cause I totally didn't even think about that.
- explorer509, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"Who is want to come TURKEY I can invitate .....
She can stay my home ........
I speake turkish , english , rusian , I want to learn other language ! " - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14This is my page .......
WELCOME TO MY HOME PAGE !!!!!!!!!
I KISS YOU !!!!!
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I like music , I have many many music enstrumans my home I can play
I like sport , swiming , basketball , tenis , volayball , walk .........
I like travel I go 3-4 country every year
I went , Germany , Nederland , Belgium , Austria , Denmark , Sweden , Hungary
Moldovia , Ukraina , Bulgaria , Romania , Macedonia , Azerbaijan , Georrgia , Iran .....
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My profession jurnalist , music and sport teacher , I make psycolojy doctora
I like to take foto-camera (amimals , towns , nice nude models and peoples).....
My tall 1.84 cm (6.2 feet) My weight 78 kg.
My eyes green .. I live alone !!!!!!!!!
I have home - car .........
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I like to be friendship from different country ..
I live in TURKEY -town IZMIR ...( 4 million peoples - near the sea - old history)...
Who is want to come TURKEY I can invitate .....
She can stay my home ........
I speake turkish , english , rusian , I want to learn other language ! - ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Mine was pretty awesome. Well, which "first".
My *first* venture into HTML probably never made it to a webserver. but It consisted of something like:
[h1] This is h1 [/h1]
[h2] this is h2[/h2]
...
Then there was the version that had fancy animated gifs and frames
and the version with DHTML rejecting any IE visitors because they couldn't see my fancy sliding doors open infront of the webpage (each being a huge JPG).
Ah, the old days. - headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8What's sad is some of these seem to have been updated pretty recently (the content), but the designs look like they haven't changed in 10 years. I guess these people only surf to their own sites, and haven't noticed the changes going on across the web.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The first website I ever built was my junior high's website, I'd link it but It's long past been updated. Frames and animated gifs where everywhere on that site, and I honestly thought I was being creative and unique when I built it.
The internet of the old days, is there any way we can actually forget about it and move on? - herrshuster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Then post a frikkin digg story, don't post off-topic! geez!
- EbenieRosa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Oh Wow, funny part is at bottom "!!..I had to move images in tinypic.com. Tinypic could not handle Mahir's load, back to basics" Maybe no one can handle Mahirs Load ;)
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"but also for trash-talking BBSes in the middle of class even though almost no one knew what they were :)"
I remember a friend of mine showing me the internet in something like 1991. His father was an engineer so he had this connection, but of course there was no html back then, it was all just stuff like FTP and telnet. I remember saying something about how stupid it looked and how BBSes were much better because you can do ASCII graphics and it's much easier to use. He insisted that the internet was going to kill BBSes; I just smirked. Sheah, as if. - kromeassassin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6< b > sigh < /b > I miss HTML sometimes...
- woodge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Lol! All the geocities sites are being pummeled by digg clicks :)
- jkramsay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I wish http://www.suesgraphicdesign.com, referenced at the bottom of that site, was still a working link. It must take balls to take credit for those images.
- headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Woh, and under construction sign. Haven't seen one of those in a long time.
http://www.nyct.net/~aray/default.html - onemillion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6http://welcometomyhomepage2.ytmnd.com/
- shakin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6One word: gopher
I put up some information on my high school chemistry teacher's gopher server. This guy was a true geek not only for having his own gopher server in 1993, but also for trash-talking BBSes in the middle of class even though almost no one knew what they were :) - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Izmir is progress, we recently legalize marriage with goat or camel. No donkey, though, we are not the barbarians!
- ShadowVox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5What's not surprising is how many of these are hosted on .edu domains. I imagine that more than being from the "beginning" of the internet, it's more likely students actually learning how to build pages.
- revmitcz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5*shudders* ohhh how I remember those days. However, I also found a number of surprisingly ***** sites by googling "welcome to my homepage" - seems to yield a lot more "lonely guy living in podunk, USA with a webpage all my own" results.
- 0siris, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Its still with you...
its just scattered between css, jscript and php...
The most important part of Ajax, is the silent H infront of it (HAJAX)
Anyway... I miss when it was acceptable to use frames in a web page - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm sure ancient email links and guest books are getting some action for the first time in years, as well.
Ok, the first non-spambot action, anyway... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://web.archive.org/web/20010405070117/http://www.shottgun.com/
This is a web page of one of my mates. I found out how to make sites from him....hence http://www.aclelland.com hasn't come very far :) - panique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I suppose the article should then be described as "What the internet wants you to forget and what Web2.0 wants you to create."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@marahmarie: Did you mean "Welcome to my Web Page?"
- Soniti, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This one takes the cake, bar none:
http://www.geocities.com/heartland/hills/6669/butterk.html
B-WARE T3H BUTT3RKUP!!111
~Soniti - mirunit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This is my favorite
"Face it, if you’ve come here, you are one of the select few who have achieved a level of sweetness so unmatched, it should be trademarked."
http://umsis.miami.edu/~amack1/Introduction.htm - devin_mm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@tizz66
I thought the same thing, wow it's real life Borat. - bilton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4My first homepage I created in the mid 90s brings back nightmares. If I were able to still pull it up on Geocities, I'm sure I could find an embossed picture of myself on the splash page. The main page was pretty sweet with the blinking text, scrolling banners and about 15 animated gifs (including the spinning IE logo and the 'under construction' digging animation).
I don't have any concrete proof but I'm pretty sure my design was used as a template for about 90% of today's myspace pages... (sorry). -
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