[ambrosite]

I love it. I have an unreasonable amount of nostalgia for old websites like this. This is what the whole Web looked like back in the early days, before the usability and design gurus figured out the "best practices" and all sites started looking the same. It really was a wild new frontier. I'm not saying the Web was objectively better back then, but it sure was fun.

[ambrosite]

I just found my first website (from January 2000) in the Wayback Machine. Not gonna post it here, but it's actually not that bad -- it had a consistent header, sidebar navigation, and a collection of nerdy sci-fi jokes that for some strange reason I thought were hilarious. :/

[phkahler]

I found mine on wayback and was shocked that you can actually make one move in the Othello game. The game ran as a CGI script (in C) and was stateless.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010403225345/http://www.oaklan...

[samsonradu]

You might like this one too: https://www.lingscars.com/

[ambrosite]

That's awesome, but to me it is an example of retro design -- that is, a site made to look as if it was built back then, not something that would actually have been built back then. Still very cool though.

[samsonradu]

Yeah, this one's actually in use, which makes it even more interesting. Not sure when it was built though.

[icebraining]

The copyright footer says 2004-2018.

[cortesoft]

I feel like it needs more blink and marquee tags, and a tiled background.

[ambrosite]

I actually get a little excited when I see the blink and marquee tags still being used on current websites. (yeah I know, I'm psychotic!)

[cortesoft]

Sadly browsers don't support them anymore... you have to implement the behavior in javascript and/or css these days.

Although if you search for 'blink tag' or 'marquee tag' on google, you get some fun easter eggs!

[icebraining]

Blink is unfortunately dead: https://anonym.to/?https://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/08/a-light-...

[troxwalt]

Did the web need to look like this? I was born in '83, and I was super excited to get on the net in the early 90's. Just don't know if we just lacked the ideas or if we couldn't make them look better.