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Thank you for this video! This was delightful. So many videos about old webpages focus on the ~creepy~ ones so it’s nice seeing a video diving into average webpages. This brought so much nostalgia! Fun fact: the Petz games still have an active community the the modding scene for the game is absurd. People have modded SO MANY things into those games.

LOL; the Redford MI Unicycle Club!!!

Will you cover Neocities, the remake project of Geocities?

I love your channel! I'm not familiar with most of this because I'm just a genz but I'm really interested in learning how the internet back then!

I didn't have the internet during this era. I tried to make a weekly, in-character fan page for Digimon when I was in elementary school on their computers. There was so much going on back then that it feels like an undiscovered era.

i remember using microsoft publisher to make a shitty webpage and then uploading all the files to my geocities. good times.

Nice! I cannot say I "like" this aesthetics, but at the same there is something very appealing about them. And it existed for such a short period of time. I am very glad someone collects these and preserves them. The Infinite Mac is a really impressive.

you are not alone when looking at which programs were open/installed on old screenshots, and try to figure which was each systray icon!

i wanna go home

Have you tried neocities?

Geocities memories, glad I found this video 😀

That dog is so dead...

glad i found this video, it’s written/spoken really well!!

Really digging these old school web videos!

It's weird how thirty years later a 2mb file is still considered huge.

part 2 please

love ur channel man, nice videos!!

It's cringe that people record these types of videos without using 800x600 resolution. Makes the sites look garbage.

Love the Homer site you picked, very relatable site I would of loved, reason why I love wikis now a days with personally. Wanna see a part 2, wanna see part 10 too XD

The positive thing about these websites is that they’re still around. I was just thinking about this the other day about how I can never show my 2 year old daughter how awesome videostores were. She will never understand the atmosphere, feel and smell. Of course, this is with most stuff from the past. But the cool thing about this digital past, that it still exists and hopefully never will go away. The people who experienced the web in the early-mid nineties were lucky, in a way. The kids and people who grow up today with the internet experiencing allot of benefits compared to us then; speed, information, it’s always there. We literally ‘went online’.. Downsides in my opinion are; social media and many more stuff But hey: we were there man.

So, satisfying! Love the old web sites!

So, I was always fascinated by the Internet, but we couldn't afford it. I joined the Internet right when CZcams was still unheard of by my friends. I know I would have spent hours browsing through these webpages if I had the chance. The part I find the most fascinating while watching your video are the pages dedicated to "Photos of [character]" only for it to have a handful of images. Then you remember that pages would take forever to load. To help younger people understand how slow the old Internet was, in 2007, on dialup, I remember it taking at least 30 mins to fully load a 10 min video on CZcams so that you could watch without interruption

Gaudy fonts, animated GIFs, and tiled backgrounds: A true sign of only the most cultured and enlightened "netizens" of the 90s. 🧐

I do NOT miss frames.

Jack's everything page does deserve it's own video

I miss webrings. I doubt kids these days even know what webrings were.

Loved it. Great video.

Subbed just because washington 😂

"And it isn't that much effort to get to this point." Except digging out your childhood PC, finding a copy of Photoshop 5.5 to legally purchase, waiting for that to ship, installing, copying your image over... ;)

I wanted to express what was on my mind and say something, but I found all of my thoughts in the comments already. Thanks

I genuinely still daily Photoshop 6.0, and only rarely do I hit a special feature I need that requires I break out CS2. I wish I had a copy of CS5.5 for RAW work, but until I find that, PS6 will be my go-to because it runs on EVERYTHING, and runs fast.

I usually go for the colorful lines bouncing off the corners of the screen, it's way better than the default Windows Mystify. Flying toasters and Flying Windows are close second place choices for me.

I had totally forgotten about the full-color artistic approach from back in the day. It's a cool style that feels lost to time.

Love this kind of look back at the past. Maybe it wasn't all bad

when a 40+ year old website about a screensaver looks more visually appealing than anything nowadays

Photopea. It is a photoshop clone (same tools, same layout, no excuses like not being able to adapt to it) and it works directly on the browser, no installation, free to use.

Modern websites need more gifs and marquees.

Please upload your website to the internet! It deserves to be seen outside of your local machine!

I remember all of this. I had to shed SO many bad html coding habits from the 90s when making webpages as an adult. lol

I’m glad that some people are doing some cool retro stuff, keep up your work, very entertaining 😎

I am OBSESSED with your content omg

I used notepad to make my Geocities website, it was the only way to get the frames just right

Its the Under Construction gifs that truely complete the design. Did you really have a website in the 90s if it wasnt perpetually under construction?

Abandoning webrings was a major contributor to the death of the personal webpage. IMHO.

Yes I used HotMetalPro back in the day. For about a day, then switched to freehand HTML. Oh the joys of notepad.

What a fun video, I also made a geocities site but with their wysiwyg editor. I went into html after that and ended up doing the site for the school my dad worked for. Really great times, full of discoveries. And this is one of the channels that you know is going to go big once the algorithm blesses it. It’s so full of great stuff!!

This brings me back. Back when I was in middle school, Dragon Ball Z on Toonami was all the rage. There was a "DBZ Season 3" website I used to frequent just to look up any scrap of information. I had no idea the show was already over in Japan. I went on GeoCities and taught myself HTML with an HTML for dummies book from the library. I made a "DBZ Season 4" site with sections with pictures, rumors, news, even a humor page that people could submit DBZ jokes and funny images. It got too popular for me (like 5 emails a day with submissions haha) and as a 13 year old I got overwhelmed and ended up deleting the site. I wish there was some way to find it.

I started using Bryce in 1999, and although I still have 7.1 installed I rarely use it these days and switched to Blender, but I can safely say that Blender would have been a lot harder if I could not lean on my experience with Bryce. In the right hands (like mine :) ) Bryce is quite capable of making photo realistic renders, but the program shows it age, it is just slow, as in continental drift slow compared to Blender.

I remember using Dreamweaver back in the day. Oh man that feels like 1000 years ago.

Super cool! I love old website designs and building them on old computers just makes it feel right.