The early internet is breaking - here’s how the World Wide Web from the 90s on will be saved

I had a geocities site in 2000. It was soooooo bad. Looking back I wish I had stuck with it and learned to become a web developer or something.

Almost every website you visit nowadays is beautifully designed, and has decades of research of psychology and art behind it, making it as navigatable and pleasing on the eyes as possible.

Old websites kind of let you appreciate how much effort goes into the average website nowadays, but its also just fun. I do kind of wish more people made their own websites.

Preserve the history for future species, when they look back in 1 billion years, "huh funny apes".
Welcome to the new era, Fallout, Mad Max... Whatever, dystopian awaits.

the internet was much cooler back then. i love neocities because the websites look like this

The old internet was so much better. Everything has been commercialized nowadays.

To think of how much we hated updating flash, then hated that we updated with wrong version....even more.😂😂😂

Proof positive

ANGELFIRE

You can use some news webpages full and bloated of ads as a bad example.

my angelfire site from 1998 is still up

if people like you would learn, we wouldn't need to archive any experience and experiment. artist have no clue of life and actively deny it

what geocities sites you remember going to or still go to?

hello, is there anyway to contact dragan or olia??

I still have my older PCs. I wish I could just connect them today and surf through those websites like we used to.

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It's somehow returning

Im glad that im helping on saving these old websites making my own indie website

I absolutely SHOCKED that people that watch the Horseman show appreciate the **(((AESTHETIC)))** of the vintaaaaage internet. Shocked, I tell you. 🙄 Very original crowd.

What got me back into making non-professional looking website was when I stumbled upon this Lain fansite.

We need to preserver Flash websites - the internet is losing all of the amazing Flash sites too.

before you got fat

This lady would love the game Hypnospace Outlaw

it’s sad to see everyone mourning the indie web when it’s still out there! places like neocities (a geocities revival project) are a great springboard for finding people who still treat the internet like a blank canvas. you can make a bad website too! everyone i’ve met there has been so friendly and willing to help people with a limited knowledge of html coding! the best way to prevent something from disappearing is to make more of it!

In the 90's, the internet belonged to everyone, or at least felt like it, and you were a person.
Now the internet clearly belongs to just a few huge corporations and you are just a product.

Highly recommend the game "Hypnospace Outlaw" if you wanna relive that feeling of the early internet. I'm in the process of creating a website / blog, and now I kinda feel like adding a little switch button that reveils a retro-version of the same page 🙈 That would be so fun

Nowadays you need to basically have professional skills to access/recreate some of these websites (even then Chrome has prevented autoplaying music on websites).

it's weird thait in the 90s web was a lot more free than nowadays. Modern internet is more developed but too regulated and steril. Everything is in a minimalistic style and you can't even change it you can't even personalize your own account on any social media and now you have to pay for a lot of things that were free before (like articles for example)

I love how they were so obsessed with 3D graphics on images back then

The early web was largely crap but it was a place of freedom, independence and it was fun. Now it's just another big corporate property.

My websites still look like that… except with a lot more tailwind and angular thrown in

For anyone just seeing this video now, like me, sure, Geocities is dead, but the old/indie web still exists on places like Neocities. It's out there if you look for it, and looking for it means involving yourself in it too.

We think of history buffs running around in medieval armor or bussel gowns, knowing names and dates of people and things long gone. But internet or digital media archivists are doing the same thing as other historians and museums and archives, and it's just as, if not more complicated due to the privateness and instability of data, but it's just as important to preserve contemporary human experiences for future generations. And this history is happening right now!
I'm a big fan of what these internet archivists are doing

It's sad that Yahoo basically just hit the delete button on a huge amount of history.

It's simple the internet became corporate. And sites started cutting back on user customization

From own Websites to social networks. From Netizens to Netslaves.

Neocities be like

Can we make internet alternate history, I need to watch

Wait so my website could be there 🥺

90s internet web pages secure but this time web pages is not secure. That is different between early internet and present internet

It's Bern commercialized.

Don't forget corporate censorship. Many websites are now deemed too dangerous/risky for the web & their owners are harassed offline forever via targeted campaigns that involve law enforcement, ISPs & government. It's happening to Kiwi Farms now but has also caused Zoklet, Topix, Legal High Guides/Euphoric Knowledge, The Hive & over 2,000 Reddit subforums to be memoryholed. The Internet Archive is not even doing its job in regards to Kiwi Farms, nor is it providing an explanation why. Just poof... 9 years of archived material gone forever. They want to turn the 'net into TV where info is tightly controlled.

Aaaaaahhhhhh my 1000

You missed one of the most important "features" of the early web: The landing page with the "enter" button to click on. I remember my old webpages i've done in frontpage. Most graphics were done with Cinema 4D and i hosted a ton of flash games. Even thought my website was to promote my music, i had hundreds of visitors that just played the games. Now my webpage is under construction for years now....have to redo everything from scratch

Framed Navigation. Yuck. I'd rather use a Hamburger menu.

peace

“Coronavirus? Fortnite? What the hell are you talking about. Wake up, we’re going to watch The Matrix Revolutions. Then we can play Neopets together!”

It was so much better tha now,trust me

I love this ! It's indeed important to keep the old internet because it's easy to forget the past but when you do you repeat the same errors !