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Man, I would be so pumped if I could find my old tripod site. I've looked before but I forgot the username and could never find it. One night as a young teen I decided to read a book "html for dummies", not knowing that 20+ years later the decision would pay off big!

Also, <marquee> tag and site counter's for life!




Don't forget the venerable <blink> tag and the obligatory "Under Construction" GIF.


ah, the early days...

https://i.imgur.com/7mr0vjQ.gif

in seventh grade we had a "web" class that, as an assignment, wanted us to find "pen pals" on the internet (lmao great idea), and to make a personal site about whatever. I made an Escape Velocity site. Lots of under construction gifs even when I submitted it.


> Lots of under construction gifs

Which ones were your favourites?

http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/


Wow. My eyes. The variety is tremendous.


I made a "smoke games" store page. It didn't have a functional shopping cart or anything, just basic HTML with some frames.


LOL wow, I totally forgot about that! I had more than a few pages with "under construction" including black and yellow striped image.


And the .shtml guestbook.


I always read that in my mind as “shit mill” am I alone?


I read it as "sheet metal" because there was an HTML editor of the era called "Hot Metal."


It was "dot shitmeal" for me.


or load-bearing CGI and perl...

(perl's OK, CGI had a lot more server side injection risk from what I remember)


CGI as in "Common Gateway Interface" or CGI.pm?

If the former, the injection vulnerability would be in the script talking to the server/database via CGI, rather than in CGI itself.

If the latter I don't remember any major unpatched vulnerabilities in CGI.pm, but it was epically inefficient.


google has a searchable cache of the internet from like 2004 as they crawled it, and they put it up once or twice for nostalgic giggles.

they really should put it up for science, so you can look up the shit that's been keyword-buried since then.


I could say the same about my old Geocities site...


I wish I could find my old geocities site - it had some early (win3.1) apps I wrote.

IIRC they were not good.


Same here.




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