I loved just browsing the web and looking at random sites. Back in the late 90s, everyone made websites for anything they wanted. The internet wasn’t consolidated into just a few big sites then, there were personal websites for literally everything.
There were even meme websites… like in the sense that the sites themselves were the meme. For example, there was a website “Mr T ate my balls”, and then there were a ton of other similar sites like “Chewbacca ate my balls” or “sailor moon ate my balls”.
If I wanted to find info about a specific TV show or something, there were likely multiple fan sites set up that were dedicated specifically to that show.
It was such a different experience from the internet today. I kind of miss it.
what’s frustrating is that many of those websites are still there. but when I use Google to try to find them, they don’t show up in the results. not that they are buried on like page five of the results. they literally don’t show up anymore.
Yeah, google results suck these days. It just usually shows you a bunch of different pages from 5-10 sites, many of which are just blog spam or require you to sign in to actually view the content.
I loved just browsing the web and looking at random sites. Back in the late 90s, everyone made websites for anything they wanted. The internet wasn’t consolidated into just a few big sites then, there were personal websites for literally everything.
There were even meme websites… like in the sense that the sites themselves were the meme. For example, there was a website “Mr T ate my balls”, and then there were a ton of other similar sites like “Chewbacca ate my balls” or “sailor moon ate my balls”.
If I wanted to find info about a specific TV show or something, there were likely multiple fan sites set up that were dedicated specifically to that show.
It was such a different experience from the internet today. I kind of miss it.
I remember going to Jeff’s code page to look up cheat codes for My computer games. It really was a different time
what’s frustrating is that many of those websites are still there. but when I use Google to try to find them, they don’t show up in the results. not that they are buried on like page five of the results. they literally don’t show up anymore.
Yeah, google results suck these days. It just usually shows you a bunch of different pages from 5-10 sites, many of which are just blog spam or require you to sign in to actually view the content.