Remembering Geocities - A look at the first web home many Gen X and Boomers ever had, Geocities - https://linkage.lol/rememberong-geocities/ #Blaugust2024

@chris I was able to find mine on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, but I had a custom domain name, so that made it easier for me.

@amerpie I had one! I wish I could remember what it was though or what I even put up there. No custom domain yet for me at that time.

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Now that's a blast from the past!

@jnv It sure sparked a creativity boom that Facebook et al almost killed. Even MySpace let you be creative in a way Facebook never has

@amerpie I miss the user interface of Netscape Navigator. It was perfection. Now we have browsers with horrid buttons and menus

@dianea I used the web creation tools in Netscape to make most of my Geocities pages back in the day. I remember the day Navigator 2.0 was released like the birth of one of my kids LOL. It was so revolutionary.

@mycotropic That is an awesome story!

@amerpie I look for a web browser's edit and publish menu items and they are missing today. Netscape Navigator was designed for creative freedom. Today's browsers completely lack a way to create and give back to the internet that we once created.

@amerpie I posted about this recently, but your post inspired me to dig through some old files. Behold in all of its early cringe!

My first:
https://netigen.com/geocities/SiliconValley/Vista/9166/1.0/

My second:
https://netigen.com/geocities/SiliconValley/Vista/9166/2.0/

Best viewed at 640x480 or 800x600 :)

@n3verm0re I like that your 1997 web page talks about how massive the Internet is. If we only knew!

@rscottjones That double hard drive failure has stopped still hurt. Knock on wood, I still have files from the 90s. A bunch of them are in Microsoft Works format, so they are hard to read though. That's why all my writing is saved in plain text/Markdown.

@amerpie @rscottjones Somehow 18 year old me had the foresight to back everything up on 3.5" floppies and carry those around in storage for a few decades. A couple years back I ordered a USB floppy drive off Amazon for a few bucks and checked for proof of life. Shockingly most of the disks still worked, despite years of reckless abandon. I expected them all to have been wiped clean via magnetic polarity of the Earth or some such.

@n3verm0re @rscottjones I still have 20K mp3 files I downloaded with Napster and a couple of TB of torrents from my days with Blackbeard on the high seas, which ended in 2006.

@amerpie @rscottjones I’m not anti-streaming, per se, but I prefer having all of my music available offline. /wink

I still miss AudioGalaxy circa 2001 more than any other services; Soulseek a close second.

@dfj Have you tried looking using the way back machine?

@amerpie I have! My problem is I can’t remember my exact screen name or url I published at. Tried some things from my memory but it didn’t turn up any results.