I made a website but it’s not 90s-feeling enough, could use your help
https://seznahegunma.org/ (visit through VPN or Tor ofc, but the way I have setup doesn’t let me even see IPs lol)
I’m going for that Geocities or Angelfire feeling
Also if a Chinese speaker could tell me if I used the right word for “unity of opposites” that would be greatly appreciated 
I did not translate it yet but you can use the glosser at https://jboski.lojban.org/ to kinda read it if you want (the dictionary it uses is olddddd though)
No visitor counter, no webring, no under construction banner, no marquee, no sounds. Pathetic. How are we supposed to know what your favorite song is if it’s not bursting one of my speakers within seconds of loading up the page?
Fuckk you’re so right
I at-least need a visitor counter and a button to play a midi (I’m not evil enough to put an autoplaying midi on there hehehe)
Okay I added some truly bizarre marquee thing I didn’t know was possible hehehe
.i fi’i means “welcome” btw
It might not work on your browser cuz its been deprecated for over 20 years lmao
If so, just break out Netscape Navigator 4 smh
My intent is actually to have this work on Netscape 4 tbh lol
lol. it’s a start!
I see the .i fi’i bouncing diagonally like an old screensaver around the top inch or so of the site on current firefox
Also, I’m on mobile, so I can’t tell. But I bet it doesn’t even change your mouse cursor into some cool dragon or anything.
It doesnttt
It’s like you’re not even trying to give me a seizure.
Also watch out if you post anything considered nostalgic, we have a pet wrecker that hates that and might accuse you of having a mid-life crisis.
Whatever you do, DO NOT post even more of your cool website to annoy them on purpose. It would be NOT FUNNY.
Btw, I highly highly rec this website if you want something like a modern take on early web web surfing: https://explore.marginalia.nu/view
That website indexes the whole web, filters out AI-sludge-filled, ad-infested, and corpo sites and then it goes in a big database to search and explore. Very useful in the era of the dead internet
It brings up a lot of Neocities sites hehe
All the Gen Alpha and zoomers on Neocities are also simply having a mid-life crisis smh
I am very serious
Fr though, was inspired to create this after seeing so many pretty Neocities sites actually :3 Is cool to see it have a revival, although I wasn’t around for the original late 90s/early 2000s personal website era
That’s so cool. I’m glad people younger than me enjoy the aesthetic and are keeping it alive. I can totally understand people prefering it to the AI, SEO filled corporate internet style.
So a few tips from someone who actually designed these in 1995-1998 as a pre-teen
You need a view counter down at the very bottom.
Above that you need a list of links to other websites. These should be in blue and turn purple when they’re visited. It needs to say LINKS above that. Putting the name of the site and then the full url is peak performance but the more elite among us would do the embed
You need some side scrolling text, and some MIDI background music (not sure if you added that I didn’t visit with audio)
You should show the name of the midi song, with music notes next to it-- .jpg NOT emoji
Pure HTML only no css or anything else like that. And finally a link to itself on top that says “if you are visiting from a website with frames, click HERE to break free”
Edit: just saw the other link here those little gifs down at the bottom are important, “this website best viewed in Netscape navigator”
Omggg, great advice thank you :3
I would avoid CSS entirely, and that was my initial plan but apparently doing stuff like abusing HTML tables for layout absolutely destroys accessibility sadly (like screen readers don’t work right for example)
Current plan is to stick to CSS 1, as specified in 1996, for maximum backwards compatibility. Sometime when I’m feeling better I’m gonna test this thing on my SGI MIPS machine running Netscape 4 hehehe
Also I wonder what kind of ancient ECMAScript stuff I could get up to… if I want to, unsure what compatibility is like either
You could go peak period and dig up a copy of Macromedia flash
Temptinggg
I am trying to pull off a careful balance between modern web browser support and backwards compatibility hehe
I have complicated feelings about Flash :P
It’s a piece of shit don’t use it lol
Making me wanna use it smh
“Please download Macromedia Flash to view this website” would be an incredible bit in 2025 though lmao
I want to make a shitty website now
https://neocities.org/ is the place to go :3
Or run your own server and domain like me if you’re cool
Make a website filled with those fake software ads that were like “you have 10 viruses pls install our virus”
Needs a little guy in a construction hat
Added :3
This site has been incredible: https://gifcities.org/
Highly recommend even if you’re not making a website hehe
https://github.com/SaraVieira/make-frontend-shit-again
Smhhhh, made of all fake corpo JS node dynamic agile-subject “”“”“frontend”“”“” code slop languages
“Yes please download 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 dependencies to build my static website using glorpr.js.io”
Real Geocities users used to build Turing machines out of HTML tables
Bookmarked :3
needs like a scrolling banner in 3d text across the top, some <blink> tags, maybe some rainbow text
Ooooh good ideas
I just worry about making my site cause eye-strain or seizures but maybe in moderation some more of that would be good hehe
Oh, a visitor counter at the bottom. And some really low res photos, left aligned.
There is some graphic design and UI design here
The webpage is responsive. It’s not wider than my screen for no reason at all
Hell yeah :3
Responsive websites aren’t difficult at all when you aren’t complicating them with 9999999 dynamically generated elements made by 9999999999999 lines of Javascript or smth
The images are specified in absolute pixel sizes but sometime I will try to see if I can make them relatively sized (unless they are already somehow?) without breaking old browsers
