Working on a website for my sister. I got some grainy gifs and a visitor counter. What else?
guest book
Also a guest counter.
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Webrings.
Animated dividers. Like the blood dripping bar or the pulsing neon one. Or both if you were me.
Gotta have a really tacky tiled background JPG.
Autoplay a song and make the player controls tough to find
WAIT! I have something for this!
A collection of Geocities sites. Pick a category and enjoy!
“Under Construction”
“Best viewed in Netscape Navigator 3.0 or higher”
“An error has occurred in the script on this page.”
They were everywhere:
Site map
Web Ring link
A sitemap is still good accessibility practice for e.g. screenreader navigation.
“You are visitor #36,738”
Congratulations! You won!
Two paragraphs talking about how great you feel about finally getting on the World Wide Web. Include as many typos as possible.
A dozen links to other websites (make sure at most only 2 of them actually work).
Excessive use of the BLINK tag in titles.
Copy and paste some random Ascii art but make sure not to use the right font so nothing aligns properly.
Real Audio music files.
The pride of our nation, Internet Mahir: I kiss you!
https://web.archive.org/web/20020726141104/http://www.istanbul.tc/mahir/mahir/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahir_Çağrı
Dude was probably the first internet meme.
His page Seems like Fb of nowadays 🤣
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I do miss the simplicity of frames, but I totally get why <div> + CSS replaced it.
For me it’s webrings. And, they’re back. I’m in a hurry so fame l can’t research for you, but, they exist.
Lot of people on neocities.org use them!
I love that who gets added to the webring is exclusively in competence of the existing members, and it’s just a question of convincing any one of the existing members to link to your site. It’s a mathematical property of their structure and it must lead to some interesting power dynamics.
From what I’d read about it, search engines have become kinda shit, focusing on SEO and paid sponsored results than actually showing what someone searched for, so some small websites form webrings to help people find similar websites/interests while they’re on their site. I think it’s pretty cute/fun.
Guest log.
Web rings.
“Secret” links like clicking on an unassuming graphic takes you to a secret page.
Contact info that includes a fax machine phone #
“Secret Links”, Like that one scene in that Sandra Bullock hacker movie, The Net.
https://triviahappy.com/articles/welcome-to-the-net-every-webpage-from-the-1995-movie-the-net
guest book
With a unsecured mysql database in the backend…
ahhh, that dastardly Bobby Tables!
My provider has a shared CGI script that added the post at a special tag in your HTML file.
…and because of poor permission handling everyone just had write permissions to these files for anyone to edit.
