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Oh my god. This is perfect. Because things on the Internet never really die and because old terrible things on the Internet eventually become wonderful and especially because Geocities was so hilariously awful, One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age is my new favourite website. It posts screenshots of old Geocities pages in all their blinging, blinking, clip art, galaxy background glory. I can’t get enough of this.
The One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age Tumblr is actually a part of Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied’s research project about Geocities. The Tumblr just pumps out automatically generated Geocities pages from the entire Geocities archive that was made available a few years back (all 900GB of it). It’s like staring at an alien corpse. If that alien corpse had a propensity for tiny images, horribly bright backgrounds and center justified text. What a horribly beautiful thing. God the Internet was so bad back then. Why the hell did we ever use it? [One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age via Web Monkey]
The Future Will Hilariously Remember the Internet As a Terrible Dark Age
The Awkward Horrors of the New Foursquare
Behold the Horrors of Mutant Taxidermy
Bang goes my afternoon…
GeminiDream’s page’ll keep you busy a while huh(?),…
It takes a long time to go back in time.
Hilarious. No.
Mildly amusing. Maybe.
Pedant.
haha that takes me back to to my first website, which was equally as bad
i still have the files here, but it is way too embarrassing to share
Please do Share.
I remember my friends mum made a family page.
Each member had a bio and a song and I loved it! Mainly for taking the piss.
Same here, except I think mine might still be online somewhere….
We will have to set them up on dropbox and share. I found my old website with animated gifs and terrible frames
mine was star trek one i was on 33k dial up lol
i might upload the whole site if you all promise not to take the piss too much lol
You’ve given me an idea for a competition…
A “who can make the worst old-style website?” compo? I’m in!
No no no; who has already *made* the worst website
haha i am up for that
I bet you are, considering you already mentioned you have one
BTW, I sent you an email yesterday about writing a column for our Friday series; did you receive it?
i have it now, will mail you back
omg i have found an even more embarrassing site i made, i forgot about can i enter two sites into this competition,
Hang on, I haven’t even started planning the competition yet! Need a really budget phone to give away first
no this competition deserves some serious tech to give away as the humiliation factor is high lol
or maybe a 50″ smart tv lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXN6tgE4g_4
The best soundtrack to listen to while browsing the Oldternet
Listening to the rest of the album as well
Every time. Without fail! I swear productivity dies a horrid death when I visit Giz.
That may prove problematic at my next review….
I remember my geocities site, wish it were still alive!!!!!!!!!
It might be in the archive.
So from this you can see how the internet has become the hulking beast of data that it is now, i bet this would show a steady growth inline with increasing bandwidth.. and this is why phones, once they open up and allow more data for less money, will use greater amounts of data as everyday data usage grows from nothing more than the development of the sites.
you can search way back machine for your old sites
http://archive.org/web/web.php
Thank you for this. I was trying to remember the name of this site the other day and could not do it.
Oooh wonder if my Metallica fan page from like 1995 is there somewhere? :p