I remember my dad building a webpage. He had put in much effort. After days or weeks, finally it went online. Of course he had a counter at the bottom. This was mandatory back in the day. Nobody was visiting. The counter remained zero for days. After a couple of days suddenly the counter said 19 views. He was so happy. When he checked the visitors he was so disappointed. From the 19 views, 17 were in fact himself (of showing it to other people on his work computer). Never seen my dad so sad. But that was the harsh reality of a ‘90s nerd!
@@RetroTechDreams Yep indeed. And also what for? Most of the webpages were for and by people done for a specific subject. But it was the love and effort that made it special. The webpage my dad build was still viewable a couple of years ago through the Wayback machine. But I can’t find it anymore.
@@destructodisk9074 I’m not sure, remember this is almost 30 years ago. It was a great time though. We (or he) felt like pioneers. Everything was so new and exciting! It was a glorious age of discovery. Every 3 years or so he bought a new Mac, man that was so exciting. I remember him getting his first Power PC. Man that was awesome
@@Thomas1984. Indeed! Around 1995 my mom got a PowerPC 6116CD and I remember endless hours of Escape Velocity, America Online, Exile, and Warcraft II to name a few. My parents split up not long after my mom got that computer and my dad ended up getting a Windows 95 PC built by some local guy . I played some Warcraft 2 and Diablo on that, but soon my dad realized I was taking over his machine and needed to get my own. In 1999 he got me a "free" eMachines with mail in rebate and 2 year contract to Compuserve. From then on I was a Windows snob. Made a lot of my own webpages with HTML or places like GeoCities and Homestead. Continued on with mostly Blizzard games like Starcraft and Diablo 2. All the way up until 2020 I stayed a Windows/Android guy, then I bought an iPhone XR just to play around with, and then later an M1 MacBook Air. I have been reconverted to Apple now lol. For fun I started doing a classic 90s HTML website, but I will probably never finish it. Its hosted at: destructodisk followed by the most common three letter domain.
Websites used to be so much more interesting, it was fun to just visit random websites just to see the developers creativity. Now most websites look generic and too empty
Woah, FrontPage seems to have alot more user-friendly features than most editors today for something of the 90s. The built-in templates, preview and site setup options would be handy for something like HTML coding in VSCODE.
Takes me back to my Computer Business Applications class in high school. Our curriculum was about 15 years out of date, so we were building websites just like this and being taught how to use Office 97.
New video! So glad I subscribed! Sorry for my bad English, but I like old web design. I red the book Dreamweaver MX Bible lately, love what old Dreamweaver can do!
Really miss these gifs that were fixed palette, run-length encoded, discrete transparency, variable time per frame, relative to these abominations now generally called gifs that are definitely just a short video files with no sound data intended to be autoplayed on loop.
This brings me back. Back when I was in middle school, Dragon Ball Z on Toonami was all the rage. There was a "DBZ Season 3" website I used to frequent just to look up any scrap of information. I had no idea the show was already over in Japan. I went on GeoCities and taught myself HTML with an HTML for dummies book from the library. I made a "DBZ Season 4" site with sections with pictures, rumors, news, even a humor page that people could submit DBZ jokes and funny images. It got too popular for me (like 5 emails a day with submissions haha) and as a 13 year old I got overwhelmed and ended up deleting the site. I wish there was some way to find it.
Oh boy I have a lot to day about this…back in the day I didn’t have a computer but I knew how to make websites due to an HTML book I had so kids at school would come to me and I’d write out the code for their websites they wanted to make in their notebooks. I’d also have them go to my favorite website for themes…Moyra’s Web Jewels (a geocities page with tons of themes) to pick a theme for their page. Eventually my parents got me a WebTV so I could make Geocities pages but I had some limitation I needed to work around (like no acessible file system) so I’d need a trusted friend to upload images I wanted to use to my geocities account and from there I could access them and use them on my page. I couldn’t link directly to an image on someone else’s page because back then that was a huge sin. It ate up their bandwidth and cost them money. The internet was fun back then, so much more personality even though you did get blasted in the face by gifs, midi’s, etc. Some features, like web rings, page counters, and guestbooks are lost to time.
I remember my dad building a webpage.
He had put in much effort. After days or weeks, finally it went online.
Of course he had a counter at the bottom. This was mandatory back in the day.
Nobody was visiting. The counter remained zero for days.
After a couple of days suddenly the counter said 19 views. He was so happy.
When he checked the visitors he was so disappointed.
From the 19 views, 17 were in fact himself (of showing it to other people on his work computer).
Never seen my dad so sad.
But that was the harsh reality of a ‘90s nerd!
High effort, low traffic… that’s exactly what building a Geocities site felt like. Thanks for sharing!
@@RetroTechDreams
Yep indeed. And also what for? Most of the webpages were for and by people done for a specific subject. But it was the love and effort that made it special.
The webpage my dad build was still viewable a couple of years ago through the Wayback machine. But I can’t find it anymore.
Back then you could manually submit your site to search engines. Wonder if he tried that?
@@destructodisk9074 I’m not sure, remember this is almost 30 years ago.
It was a great time though. We (or he) felt like pioneers.
Everything was so new and exciting! It was a glorious age of discovery.
Every 3 years or so he bought a new Mac, man that was so exciting.
I remember him getting his first Power PC. Man that was awesome
@@Thomas1984. Indeed! Around 1995 my mom got a PowerPC 6116CD and I remember endless hours of Escape Velocity, America Online, Exile, and Warcraft II to name a few. My parents split up not long after my mom got that computer and my dad ended up getting a Windows 95 PC built by some local guy . I played some Warcraft 2 and Diablo on that, but soon my dad realized I was taking over his machine and needed to get my own. In 1999 he got me a "free" eMachines with mail in rebate and 2 year contract to Compuserve. From then on I was a Windows snob. Made a lot of my own webpages with HTML or places like GeoCities and Homestead. Continued on with mostly Blizzard games like Starcraft and Diablo 2. All the way up until 2020 I stayed a Windows/Android guy, then I bought an iPhone XR just to play around with, and then later an M1 MacBook Air. I have been reconverted to Apple now lol.
For fun I started doing a classic 90s HTML website, but I will probably never finish it. Its hosted at: destructodisk followed by the most common three letter domain.
Websites used to be so much more interesting, it was fun to just visit random websites just to see the developers creativity. Now most websites look generic and too empty
I miss those days when everything seemed so much simpler yet interesting.
@ahmad-murery it's the minimalist trend.. maximal wave will arrive soon
Check out neocities
Woah, FrontPage seems to have alot more user-friendly features than most editors today for something of the 90s. The built-in templates, preview and site setup options would be handy for something like HTML coding in VSCODE.
For sure! The tabs to switch between the HTML editor and the preview were sweet.
Please upload your website to the internet! It deserves to be seen outside of your local machine!
I mean, I thought my website was a masterpiece, but I wasn’t so sure everyone would agree 😆
@@RetroTechDreams Don't deprive us of its beauty. I'll even host it for you for free if you'd like! (serious)
I should probably put my underutilized Cloudways VPS to use
I had totally forgotten about the full-color artistic approach from back in the day. It's a cool style that feels lost to time.
And so nostalgic!
Super cool! I love old website designs and building them on old computers just makes it feel right.
I am OBSESSED with your content omg
Thank you! It’s a lot of fun to make these videos. Plenty more in the way.
I’m glad that some people are doing some cool retro stuff, keep up your work, very entertaining 😎
Thank you!
Fantastic video sir. I still mess around with FrontPage from time to time as well.
Thanks! It was a ton of fun to play with.
Loved it. Great video.
Thanks!
Takes me back to my Computer Business Applications class in high school. Our curriculum was about 15 years out of date, so we were building websites just like this and being taught how to use Office 97.
New video! So glad I subscribed! Sorry for my bad English, but I like old web design. I red the book Dreamweaver MX Bible lately, love what old Dreamweaver can do!
I love Dreamweaver! Thank you for subscribing!
I love your channel! I'm not familiar with most of this because I'm just a genz but I'm really interested in learning how the internet back then!
Thank you! Glad you’re here!
Another great video, hell yeah!
Thanks!
I looove this so much. This makes me want to work more on my Neocities page, haha.
Thank you!
Really miss these gifs that were fixed palette, run-length encoded, discrete transparency, variable time per frame, relative to these abominations now generally called gifs that are definitely just a short video files with no sound data intended to be autoplayed on loop.
Thanks Chris! I can’t get enough of the early gifs.
This is amazing haha I'm actually trying to build a 90s themed/inspired website for myself
this is siiiickk
how in the world do you not have 100k+ subs yet
Haha thanks! I’m beyond thrilled to have 2K subscribers! It still doesn’t feel real.
@@RetroTechDreams THE INTERNET ARCHIVE IS DOWN SOUND THE ALARM
well the wayback machine is atleast
Modern websites need more gifs and marquees.
👆 This.
This brings me back. Back when I was in middle school, Dragon Ball Z on Toonami was all the rage. There was a "DBZ Season 3" website I used to frequent just to look up any scrap of information. I had no idea the show was already over in Japan. I went on GeoCities and taught myself HTML with an HTML for dummies book from the library. I made a "DBZ Season 4" site with sections with pictures, rumors, news, even a humor page that people could submit DBZ jokes and funny images. It got too popular for me (like 5 emails a day with submissions haha) and as a 13 year old I got overwhelmed and ended up deleting the site. I wish there was some way to find it.
You went viral!
Your website might be on the Internet archive you can check through the wayback machine just type in your websites uro
Oh boy I have a lot to day about this…back in the day I didn’t have a computer but I knew how to make websites due to an HTML book I had so kids at school would come to me and I’d write out the code for their websites they wanted to make in their notebooks. I’d also have them go to my favorite website for themes…Moyra’s Web Jewels (a geocities page with tons of themes) to pick a theme for their page.
Eventually my parents got me a WebTV so I could make Geocities pages but I had some limitation I needed to work around (like no acessible file system) so I’d need a trusted friend to upload images I wanted to use to my geocities account and from there I could access them and use them on my page. I couldn’t link directly to an image on someone else’s page because back then that was a huge sin. It ate up their bandwidth and cost them money.
The internet was fun back then, so much more personality even though you did get blasted in the face by gifs, midi’s, etc. Some features, like web rings, page counters, and guestbooks are lost to time.
I wanted to express what was on my mind and say something, but I found all of my thoughts in the comments already.
Thanks
Either way, glad you’re here with us! 😃
I remember using Dreamweaver back in the day. Oh man that feels like 1000 years ago.
I used notepad to make my Geocities website, it was the only way to get the frames just right
Notepad is crucial for the pixel perfect, 150,* dimensions
I remember all of this. I had to shed SO many bad html coding habits from the 90s when making webpages as an adult. lol
All part of the charm
Abandoning webrings was a major contributor to the death of the personal webpage.
IMHO.
Love Microsoft FrontPage, I still mess about with it regularly
Needs more themes 😆
Is there any good way to get FrontPage? I’d totally make my website from this.
Archive dot org
@@RetroTechDreams figured but thought there was maybe a certain version etc etc. ty!
I have a doubt actually... when you done all the works, can you export the html from the frontpage and make it online somewhere else? like in glitch?
Its the Under Construction gifs that truely complete the design.
Did you really have a website in the 90s if it wasnt perpetually under construction?
Haha I’ve never in my life actually finished a Geocities website
Is there a modern version of this software?
Dreamweaver and GoLive bring back memories... 🙂
I was using GoLive before Adobe acquired them 😎
Dreamweaver 😄 I remember it - it was always crashing on my PC
Haha sounds about right
where i can visit you website?
Read "Build a 1998 website like Geocities" :/
Can not find the book you mentioned
That's not how you say WYSIWYG 🤣🤣 But yes, these were the days. LOL
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First?
Good job
Congrats! 😁