Remember the glory that was the personal website back in the glorious 90's? Back when if you had one, you were either a wannabe who used Netscape Composer to make yours, or you were notepad master race (obviously you were way cooler if you were using Linux

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Anonymous 02/21/13 (Thu) 09:34:02 No.2275

Remember the glory that was the personal website back in the glorious 90's? Back when if you had one, you were either a wannabe who used Netscape Composer to make yours, or you were notepad master race (obviously you were way cooler if you were using Linux, but I was like 12 and my dad and I installed 98SE on my first computer we built together)

Included for your viewing pleasure is thought experiments lain, my favorite Lain website that is somehow still miraculously online.
http://www.cjas.org/~leng/open.htm

Anonymous 02/21/13 (Thu) 09:41:25 No.2276

Notepad master race reporting in. Also, I know Lawrence Eng (he what made the site you linked).

Anonymous 02/21/13 (Thu) 09:51:00 No.2277

>>2276
No shit? That is really awesome! I have seriously loved that website since I was a teenager. I actually learned HTML because of him.
Were you two friends or just classmates or what? My interest is piqued…

Anonymous 02/21/13 (Thu) 09:54:58 No.2278

Ah lord, I spent hours reading and re-reading these websites.

One of my favorites as a kid was a website devoted to Mew and Mewtwo from Pokemon. Had a lot of information and the creator had some interesting fanart. Amazed it's still up:
http://mewtopia.freehosting.net/

Remember how half of fansites was a "Shrine to (insert anime or character here)?"

Anonymous 02/21/13 (Thu) 10:14:45 No.2279

>>2278
Yeah, I do. I think the majority of the websites I made before blogging became THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE were shrines or fansites.
The internet was so "bad" back then (poor quality/speed), but at least you had to be skilled to be on it, so even the worst chain letter forwarder at least knew where the power button was and how to make it go and what Internet Explorer was.

What was everyone's browser of choice back then? I used Netscape Navigator (4, I believe?) mostly. Never had AOL; my dad was vehemently against it.

Anonymous 02/21/13 (Thu) 10:17:30 No.2280

>>2278
Oh wow, the design of that is so amazing.
Whatever happened to the world wide web, and when did it become the internet we know today? I miss websites like these. Simple, AMAZING DESIGNS, just had the information you were looking for and maybe an about me page at worst. None of this social media flattr this and tweet that bullcrap.
I miss you, 90's internet.
Oh, yeah, who BBS here?

Anonymous 02/21/13 (Thu) 10:21:19 No.2281

>>2279
Netscape for a long while, and then to Opera- but I think that was after the 90s. Never used AOL either, yet they kept on sending us so many friggin' CDs.

Anonymous 02/21/13 (Thu) 11:39:34 No.2282

My favorite had to be http://fusionanomaly.net/, a HUGE encyclpedia of all that is freak culture, cyberspace, and out there stuff in general. Too bad it kind of went down a couple of years ago.

Anonymous 02/21/13 (Thu) 13:09:35 No.2283

>>2282
>fusion anomaly
FUCK YES

brofist.jpg

So many hours browsing the site, following the links…it was like an old version of wikipedia or tvtropes in that regard

Anonymous 02/21/13 (Thu) 14:57:27 No.2284

>>2282

Still accessible from sub-nodes: i.e: http://fusionanomaly.net/TechNode.html. Of course broken images everywhere, and limited to how far you can get from a single entry node.

Anonymous 02/21/13 (Thu) 19:03:23 No.2285

>>2284
>>2283
>>2282
I had no idea what this was until today, and it is awesome. Thank you!

Anonymous 02/22/13 (Fri) 10:27:03 No.2286

Netscape here.
>>2277
Friends, connected through an anime convention he was a guest at and I was staff on. Very interesting guy.

Anonymous 02/22/13 (Fri) 16:33:49 No.2287

>>2275
>>2282

Hmm, people back then sure liked Matrix-y neon green over black. Can't blame them, helps readability without straining the eye.