ALTAVISTA IS DOWN, REPEAT ALTAVISTA.COM IS DOWN

[Cramulus]

WE ARE NOW LIVING IN THE POST-ALTAVISTA WEB.

How the FUCK am I supposed to find the hottest new geocities.com websites? This is fucking bullshit. I'm not going back to goddamn lycos.

[Doktor Howl]

WE ARE NOW LIVING IN THE POST-ALTAVISTA WEB.

How the FUCK am I supposed to find the hottest new geocities.com websites? This is fucking bullshit. I'm not going back to goddamn lycos.

WHAT'S NEXT?  TRIPOD?   

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

OH GOD NO WHAT NEXT? WHAT ABOUT ANGELFIRE?

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Suu]

SHIT. I JUST LOST ALL THE WEBSITES EVER!

[Cramulus]

SHIT DAMN FUCK

okay luckily we can still get a fix of the 90s web here: http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/index.php


For example, view this thread as it would have existed in 1996: http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2&music=10&url=http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,35176.msg1285889/boardseen.html#new

[Aucoq]

Holy shit, AltaVista and Lycos! Talk about a trip down memory lane.   

Brb, gotta remember my Angelfire e-mail so I can log into Xanga.

[Faust]

Not quite as green and black enough to give you your fix but:
https://neocities.org/

[Cramulus]

I miss the days when the net was an "information super highway" laden with highway metaphors like "on ramp" and "traffic jam".

I miss the days when FREE was bold and blinking

I miss the days when a website would let you know what was "NEW" or "HOT"

I want to read a list of people's favorite bands, movies, and food, in an unordered bullet point list

I want to go to a webpage called "My web page"

I miss the days when websites were organized by "neighborhood"

I miss downloading 3.5-inch diskettes full of "WAVS" and playing them for your friends. "Check out this clip of Donald Duck getting a handjob, you're gonna bust a nut .. from laughing"

But alas, they have taken our blink tags. They have taken our shitty frames. They have taken the tiny spinning skull on fire which you should click to read my weblog.

let's become digital amish, let's get tamagatchis, let's order pizza from the net, let's dial up via prodigy, let's be excellent to each other

[Doktor Howl]

I miss dial up BBSs, where you'd get disconnected if you forgot to turn call waiting off.

I miss the early days of usenet, where your post didn't appear for 12-24 hours, and a reply took the same amount of time.  Also, you needed a special browser.

I miss my accoustic coupler modem, which ran at a blinding 300 baud rate.

I miss waiting for my tape deck to incorrectly load a program into my Timex Sinclair.

I miss Fortran, Pascal, and COBOL. 

I miss compile errors on 8088 assemblers.

[Suu]

I miss my first webpage. I made it in Frontpage and hosted it on Geocities. It had a background from Visual Paradox on there.

Edit: OMG I FOUND IT MIRRORED. *hides it back in the deepest part of the internets*

[Faust]

I miss the days when the net was an "information super highway" laden with highway metaphors like "on ramp" and "traffic jam".

I miss the days when FREE was bold and blinking

I miss the days when a website would let you know what was "NEW" or "HOT"

I want to read a list of people's favorite bands, movies, and food, in an unordered bullet point list

I want to go to a webpage called "My web page"

I miss the days when websites were organized by "neighborhood"

I miss downloading 3.5-inch diskettes full of "WAVS" and playing them for your friends. "Check out this clip of Donald Duck getting a handjob, you're gonna bust a nut .. from laughing"

But alas, they have taken our blink tags. They have taken our shitty frames. They have taken the tiny spinning skull on fire which you should click to read my weblog.

let's become digital amish, let's get tamagatchis, let's order pizza from the net, let's dial up via prodigy, let's be excellent to each other

Blink might be gone, but they have added rumble and shudder:

http://leonarnott.neocities.org/

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

A lot of the day yesterday was spent on my local copy of my old website. Light colored text on dark backgrounds that were loosely based on galaxies and made in paint, tables, and a page about "my friends" because that's totally what websites are for, right guys?

[Faust]

I found This ghetto piece of shit, the other day. It looks like it hasn't been updated in years.

[Cainad (dec.)]

I remember webrings.

I remember Netscape Navigator.

I remember the first time dad booted up some dinky-ass modem and it made a noise that was very clearly the sounds of things going HORRIBLY WRONG, even though it was just a modem. My child-brain took a while to get over that.

I remember when the Yahoo homepage wasn't completely overrun with crap I never look at.