#1 Websites with ~ in them.
My own personal page had one… I think I was:
http://ix.netcom.com/~idontremember
Sadly, that goes nowhere now. I’m sure it looked just as cool as this ~ website.
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Why tilde (~) should not be used in Web addresses (URLs)Check out this site detailing why you should never put a ~ in a web address…. ironically, this site indeed features a tilde!!! ~~~~
via: www.cs.tut.fi
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#2 Netscape Navigator 3.0 (Gold!)
#3 Jeeves. Yes, I miss him.
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Search Engine History.comThe concept of hypertext and a memory extension really came to life in July of 1945, when after enjoying the scientific camaraderie that was a side effect of WWII, Vannevar Bush’s As We May Think was published in The Atlantic Monthly. He urged scientists to work together to help build a body of knowledge for all mankind. Here are a few selected sentences and paragraphs that drive his point home. Specialization becomes increasingly necessary for progress, and the effort to bridge between disciplines is correspondingly superficial.
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#4 This Sound
It was so much fun to figure out how fast things were going to go based on all the little noises… like a game within a game!
The Dial Up Noise – YouTube
And all these great soundbites from AOL
AOL 9.0 Sounds – YouTube
#5 All the Fun Graphics and Pictures
Like the ever popular “Under Construction”…
#6 Original Animated .GIFs (2 states only please!)
While finding the perfect example – I stumbled upon this version of Lego’s homepage (yes, the real one!!) from quite some time ago… Beautiful!
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Welcome to the official LEGO World Wide Webvia: web.archive.org
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#7 Rainbow Horizontal < HR > ‘s
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THE VINTAGE WEB: Photo |
#8 Counters!
Credit the site below for continuing on and providing this service still today!
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#9 Matt’s Script Archive
Ahh…the good days of Perl Scripts. What would we all have done without Matt’s wonderful site!?
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Matt’s Script Archive, Inc. :: Free Perl CGI Scripts |
#10 ALT.TV.SIMPSONS
Before the luxury of Facebook came along to help us kill time… Alt.TV.Simpsons had every little soundbite, icon, image, and whatever else we needed !
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alt.tv.simpsons – Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaalt.tv.simpsons (called “a.t.s.” by regular readers) is a usenet newsgroup dedicated to discussing the American television program, The Simpsons. Created in 1990, the newsgroup became a popular community in the early 1990s, and continues to exist as of 2012. The newsgroup is known for reviewing the episodes and nitpicking on minor details on the show.
via: en.wikipedia.org
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#11 Napster!
While the days of downloading 73 different concert bootlegs of the same song may be over… Napster.com still redirects to brand-new ShareASale Merchants Rhapsody – check them out!
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Napster, stream music, music app for smartphones, top songs, download MP3svia: www.rhapsody.com
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The following sites have some great blasts from the past as well – check out for further reading
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1990s Internet & World Wide Web | Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe———1990s Internet & World Wide Web Going Online World Wide Web Internet Access Online Trends Popular Websites Media & File Sharing Bringing People Together
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32 Things That Will Make You Miss The Old Days Of The InternetOr have the exact opposite effect. I kind of like the internet the way it is now.
via: www.buzzfeed.com
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Missy Ward says
July 10, 2013 at 12:10 pmI miss GeoCities!
Brian Littleton says
July 10, 2013 at 3:42 pmLoved GeoCities sites! I searched for them on HotBot.
Jenna says
July 10, 2013 at 2:23 pmOh man. So much goodness here. Rainbow horizontals. Yes.
Brian Littleton says
July 10, 2013 at 3:43 pmThe “horizontal” in general has fallen out of favour… and the rainbow was definitely the best kind. One could never just have “1” rainbow horizontal…they traveled in packs.
Nancy says
July 11, 2013 at 5:23 amMy first site was GeoCities. It taught me to learn html. Ahh, yes, the wonders of a dial-up connection. I wonder if it will let me upload this huge 55kb graphic..
Steph says
July 11, 2013 at 11:46 pmYES! I love the dial up sound. Those were the good old days when we would use our free hours on AOL cds to go online and into chat rooms. Good times.
Karen Garcia says
July 12, 2013 at 10:21 amI know both Joel and my GeoCities pages still exist in a fashion on Archive.org. We were “neighbors” in Paris. The menus (being separate html pages) are archived separately from the actual pages, but the content is still there.
One of the earliest sites that still makes me chuckle is The Really Big Button That Doesn’t Do Anything.
Bill Swartwout says
July 12, 2013 at 10:35 amI miss the early days of Google when “Do no evil” was a reality.
Jenny says
July 17, 2013 at 6:43 pmAnd speaking of the old web and the Simpsons: “alt dot nerd dot obsessive.”
:-)
Pete says
August 11, 2015 at 6:21 amOur web site is still just about as I made it in the 90s. But we had one on Geocities and a few other free web site places. Always loved the cool little animated gifs and plain web sites, Low-res and lightweight enough for fast viewing on dialup. Cool beans! If you miss the old Netscape Navigator or Communicator, the closest thing now is called Sea Monkey. Based on Firefox code but looks and feels a lot like Netscape 4.8 or so. Funny, but I spend a lot of time at Archive.org looking through copies of old web sites. :)