The early internet is breaking – here’s how the World Wide Web from the 90s on will be saved
The early internet is breaking – here’s how the World Wide Web from the 90s on will be saved
The early web looked different than it does today. In the 1990s, the internet was intimate and a bit amateur. Websites were made by everyday people on their personal computers, desktops, with very minimal knowledge of coding or HTML needed.
Software becomes obsolete — Flash which made much of the early web run, will be shut down in 2020.
People stop paying for domain names.
Companies like Netscape or GeoCities or MySpace that host websites and online communities go out of business, or get sold (to Yahoo! for example).
The internet is not forever, it can break and disappear.
Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied are part of a growing group of people who preserve and archive our online digital history. They see the web from the 90s and 2000s as an artifact, at times, even, Net Art.
Dragan/Olia’s Tumblr: https://oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com/
Webrecorder: https://webrecorder.io/
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People should make more stupid internet
Anyone else bugged by their browser window not being maximized?
Screw flash Websites! I can’t say this loudly enough. Flash was AWWFUL if you were using a non-standard web browser.
The 90s Internet Is Like The World Trade Centre, Being Destroyed
I thought I was the only one in love with the early internet, happy to see I’m not! Also… Word Art, anybody? 😜
Let the past be past. We live in times of constant fast changes and it’s fine. I used to fetishize old internet stuff but it’s much more fun caring about future
What I miss the most was the content. Nowadays, people are obsessed with the “attention span” and do not write a lot of actual content anymore. Also, I remember that there were way less ads. Now you need to dig into the ads to find what you are looking for. The last thing that I miss is the discovery. Now people are tracked and only gets presented what an algorithm wants them to see. Back then there was more exploration freedom.
this makes my heart so sore
I miss the old chat rooms the most.
Bring us back to 2009 please 🥺 I’ll give you everything. If we can go back to 92 I’ll do much more.
My Geocities website is still floating around in cyberspace somewhere
4:48 *sees surgical mask*
Me: Did this predict COVID-19?
This honestly hits me hard… back then there were a lot of great sites that had stories for me to read from Tenchi Muyo to Pokemon but now they are all gone. :c
so in ten thousand years from now , people of the furture will say wtf was the pc ? we can just think about we want to learn and download it to our brains
Hi I just wanted to let you know that I do still exist!
I just created my first website because of an assignment for school and oh boy it was a trip XD, HTML is so hard but easy? i had fun and as is said in the video i really feel my personality shines through that little corner I created by myself even though it’s not perfect I’m still learning and I’m glad others are learning too.
Who remembers web rings? 😀
Jesus, the goatse references
Under Construction very quickly meant to mean "Oh, this page is never going to be updated after all"…a year or two later)
ONLY 1 TB?? that’s insane.
6:11 what are those gifs or animations named and with what program was they created with
Where I can find old website and brows them like these in the vid I really like anime ones and I have been always in love with old websites but I don’t know how to find them
MAKE THE INTERNET GREAT AGAIN
90s web was all about closing pop-up windows that opened up new pop-up windows.
Wow they actually backed up geocities. I have some few websites I made there from late 90s to early 00s. Maybe found my long lost gem again. Sign my guestbook anyone? 😏
These people are speaking my language lol
I’m almost 50 years old, so to see Millenials waxing nostalgic for the "early" internet, when I’m still nostalgic for "phone booths", makes me feel REALLY old!
Yeah, that made me cry.
sad
Thank you so very much for the wonderful video. You brought back so many memories. I don’t know what we are supposed to do now. The internet is a very different place.
thanks for this!
Reject modernity! Delete your facebook, make a neocities page!
IS THAT A MAC OS EMULATOR?
I had a geocities website in 1999-2000. I used to spend a lot of time building it and adding new stuff. I wish I could recover my stuff because they were very personal
"our affiliates"
*has 200 buttons all in a row making the webpage super long*
i used to have a geocities account and website. i wonder if it got archived. If only i can remember it
With that and today’s speed I’m all for it! I miss personal websites! If you had even a medium end computer which you could get for no more then 400$ that is if you built it yourself then it didn’t take forever to download stuff! I did it all the time in the late 90s filling up the then crap hard drives!
i can taste the soy in these people
Maybe People Should Just Create Websites That Looks Like Its From The 90s
how do i make this my career
Great video. The early web was more friendly & fun. It had more personality. I miss it. You don’t need to be professional when putting up a personal website. Have fun with it.
My AOL Hometown website was obliterated when they decided to shut down the servers with little notice.
The "old internet" may not have been beautiful (by the standards of today’s corporate brochure aesthetic) but at least it had authenticity about it. The user had more creative control and so you knew that a real human had actually sat down and made the thing. Most sites today look like they were designed by a committee of AIs to be as bland as possible and your interaction is basically limited to "select the file you want to upload, press ok".
If you guys freak out about that era of the Internet, you would lose it if you tried the Internet before graphical browsers (such as Lynx), or even better, the Internet when there was no World Wide Web.
Millennial’s are the generation that grew up with the early internet, we were so much more ahead for it as our parents didn’t fully understand it, and the generation after us has a censored internet with parents who understand it.
Corporations consolidating power and influence.
Today’s internet has no soul.
I get tired of people getting all cringy with these early web pages and designs. It was a new technology back then and so things were rough, but these creators poured their personal soul, talent, creativity, and hard work into making these pages. There were no guidelines on webpage designs, or template. But these people had fun, and that’s what mattered for them. Just like you’re having fun right now with whatever you have, which will be outdated in the next decade.
I first went to the internet through a Nokia phone in 2003
Alright, my project this Summer is to get my old Debian system operational again and set up a classic 90s style personal web page on it that will be accessible from outside my home network. May see if I can set up a USENet server and a MUCK or a MUD as well.