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.
@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.
@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 :)
@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.
@amerpie Geocities was my start with building on the web! I have many fond memories. Sadly, my old sites are lost to time. But that’s probably for the best, haha