Is "cool website" an oxymoron?

[igor_kavinski]

EYE4U flash website in 1998 - YouTube

Would this be considered cool now?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Why did this trigger Geocities memories in my head

Oh man I remember those days. Geocities, Homestead, tripod... there may be others. It's kind of crazy to think they could offer hosting for free, but they would inject ads into your site, which was annoying especially if you used frames... remember those? lol. I remember really wanting a website as a kid, but knew nothing about that. I made a site in Excel (lol) and used the "web publishing wizard" in Windows 98 to try to "put it on the internet". I was just imputing stuff in there hoping it would somehow show up online. I knew our ISP had a web host URL but I had no idea how to use it. I remember the tech support person at my ISP telling me about Geocities, and from there that's when I learned more about the concept of web hosting, and that you have to actually use html... lol. Fast forward to like 5 or so years later I'm looking at the web space provided by my ISP and actually find my excel file on there. By the time I turned 18 I knew more how it all worked and was old enough for a credit card so ended up getting a proper host and registering my first domain iceteks.com which up until only a few months ago still had an active site on it. The entire server got hacked though, and when I started to migrate to a new server it got hacked again before I even had a chance to setup anything. I am still self hosting a few things though and might actually bring that site back up for old time sakes at some point. I still have no idea how they got in which does bother me. Some kind of 0 day exploit, as it was a brand new install of Debian 11 which is new.

I need to go through some of my old archive CDs, some of those are over 10 years old at this point. They have very old copies of my first sites and such. Would be total nostalgia going through that, if the sites would even work in today's browsers... Lot of web standard changes since then I'm sure.

 

[Muse]

Once upon a time way long back ago I stumbled on the Absolute Center Of The Internet.

And it was what? In the center of a black hole?

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

As I recall, there were some legs.

 

[Kaido]

Oh man I remember those days. Geocities, Homestead, tripod... there may be others. It's kind of crazy to think they could offer hosting for free, but they would inject ads into your site, which was annoying especially if you used frames... remember those? lol. I remember really wanting a website as a kid, but knew nothing about that. I made a site in Excel (lol) and used the "web publishing wizard" in Windows 98 to try to "put it on the internet". I was just imputing stuff in there hoping it would somehow show up online. I knew our ISP had a web host URL but I had no idea how to use it. I remember the tech support person at my ISP telling me about Geocities, and from there that's when I learned more about the concept of web hosting, and that you have to actually use html... lol. Fast forward to like 5 or so years later I'm looking at the web space provided by my ISP and actually find my excel file on there. By the time I turned 18 I knew more how it all worked and was old enough for a credit card so ended up getting a proper host and registering my first domain iceteks.com which up until only a few months ago still had an active site on it. The entire server got hacked though, and when I started to migrate to a new server it got hacked again before I even had a chance to setup anything. I am still self hosting a few things though and might actually bring that site back up for old time sakes at some point. I still have no idea how they got in which does bother me. Some kind of 0 day exploit, as it was a brand new install of Debian 11 which is new.

I need to go through some of my old archive CDs, some of those are over 10 years old at this point. They have very old copies of my first sites and such. Would be total nostalgia going through that, if the sites would even work in today's browsers... Lot of web standard changes since then I'm sure.

Meanwhile today:

WinXP - Windows XP in React

Windows XP in React and Hooks! Try Minesweeper, Internet Explorer, Notepad in your browser!

winxp.vercel.app

 

[Red Squirrel]

Meanwhile today:

WinXP - Windows XP in React

Windows XP in React and Hooks! Try Minesweeper, Internet Explorer, Notepad in your browser!

winxp.vercel.app

Woah that's so cool. Makes me feel old when I realize that Windows XP is actually old. It still feels kind of new to me. Same with 7.

 

[Kaido]

Woah that's so cool. Makes me feel old when I realize that Windows XP is actually old. It still feels kind of new to me. Same with 7.

I just paid $5 for StartAllBack for Windows 11:

StartAllBack to fix all Windows 11 deal-breaking UI issues

StartAllBack restores taskbar, start menu, context menus, explorer, sanity, style and order!

www.startallback.com

I reverted the dumb taskbar back to Windows 7:

1. Win7 start button
2. Win7 start menu
3. Win7 taskbar

Taskbar features:

1. Small icons instead of large
2. Ungrouped icons, so I can click on individual windows in say Excel or Chrome without having to click or hover. I HATE that extra step in Win11!
3. Text instead of icon-only, so I can see name previews of the titles, so I can find the exact window I'm looking for

Best five bucks I've ever spent! lol. Win11 is actually pretty zippy, good experience so far (outside of having to manually skip the Microsoft Account creation at the beginning), just needed that taskbar tweaked!