Comments on: Geocities, and snippets of personal internet history

By: Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » Blogging Against Disablism, in a roundabout way

Fri, 01 May 2009 21:27:58 +0000

[...] night, I started another “personal internet history” post. I’m happy with my first one, which I wrote after hearing about GeoCities’ impending shutdown; but I want to do another [...]

By: Seth

Seth — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:42:20 +0000

Great post. I need to do one of these myself.

Have you seen DreamHost’s “History of WebRings”?

http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/04/24/theyre-internet-history/

By: Nikki

Nikki — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:08:22 +0000

Ha! I was online w/ Prodigy when it was the New Hotness. I don’t remember what year that was? Had to be early 90’s per wikipedia. I don’t even remember what I did with it. Read news groups? I certainly remember feeling cool for having the internet. I think it came with some Encyclopedia on CD, but I can’t remember which one. At some point we got AOL, and I discovered IRC. Oh, IRC. Shenanigans, they ensued. I would write my own post about this but it would kind of be an endless string of IRC -induced drama.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:33:34 +0000

Great post. I’m not as focused on saving everything as you are, but I did recreate most of my old geocities pages and stick them in my old blog. I also put in a version of my first website (just space that was provided by my old ISP in the mid-90s) that I had preserved through printing it out.

Good memories, but it’s sometimes painful to read the things I wrote.

Funny side-item: I used to post to a lot of BBS message boards. I thought it was “distinctive” to post so that my sentences alternated bright magenta and cyan. That, in conjunction with the fact that I “knew” everything, must have equaled one really annoying teenager.

My pet peeve during the mid/late-90s was the “Under Construction” gifs people would put on their pages. I would say, “Um – a webpage is always under construction!”

Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

By: Rusty

Rusty — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:47:35 +0000

Also re: The Wayback Machine, it doesn’t quite go wayback enough for my purposes. Most of my early websites I made at UT are lost to the ether.

By: A brief history of my time on the Internet | Rusty's Blog

A brief history of my time on the Internet | Rusty's Blog — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:43:09 +0000

[...] Amber and Garrett had discussed writing similar posts a few days ago. Amber has since published a post.I’m going for an executive summary here and will probably miss a few important items, but if [...]

By: Niki

Niki — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:33:43 +0000

Ha! I was Aegean/Athens/whatever number like 3299 or something like that. I remember it was very dark and fantasy filled. Oh your old website brings back memories of Augusta, and your room, and B&N.