[ekanes]

Gosh. Seeing that is kind of more ... emotional than I'd have expected. Gonna print a screenshot of it for the memories folder. It was just such a different time. Can't imagine what later generations would think was the point of things like a web counter, but golly that was so cool back in the day. :)

"Display a text count of visitors to your web pages. Includes: zero padding, file locking, linking the count, displaying begin date and counting multiple pages."

[susam]

Exactly! These old websites from the 90s that are still alive carry such a powerful dose of nostalgia. I wrote and published my first public website on GeoCities. Sadly, that's lose to time. The second one I wrote was published on 20m.com which offered 20 MB of free hosting space and a custom subdomain. That was more than 20 years ago. Incredibly 20m.com and that silly website of mine are still online: <http://encoders.20m.com/>!

If you scroll down, you'll find the obligatory visitor count on the sidebar. That's still running too! You can't see in the published HTML but that visitor counter is generated by an ISML tag.

  <isml type="counter">

It's fascinating how some forgotten corners of the web are still quietly running, long after the rest of the Internet has moved on.

[Sophira]

> These old websites from the 90s that are still alive carry such a powerful dose of nostalgia.

There's a subreddit dedicated to these kinds of sites: https://reddit.com/r/forgottenwebsites/

[acuozzo]

Thank you for this! I just joined/subscribed to it.