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[Lord Dullard]

http://reocities.com/neighborhoods/

It seems that at least a slice of old GeoCities websites have been saved by someone who managed to get a fairly large segment of them before the shutdown in 2009. I actually found this because I was searching for my very, very ancient site because of some bizarre masochistic impulse, but I found this instead. Sadly it seems to be impossible to access specific users' sites because there is really no way to organize them, but just browsing them is great if you want to go on a nostalgia-fest to the days when personal web pages tended to be seizure-inducing.

TimesSquare is particularly hilarious if you're looking for examples of aesthetically retarded nerdiness.

Heh, here are a couple of gems:
http://reocities.com/TimesSquare/3611/ - Those are some sweet tattoos, man.
http://reocities.com/TimesSquare/3600/ - I BUY PEZ...SERIOUSLY "If they don't have feet, I want'em"
http://reocities.com/TimesSquare/4522/ - "A three-judge federal court panel has declared unconstitutional the Communications Decency Act that would limit Internet content. The judges described the Internet as ``a never-ending world conversation. The government may not interrupt that conversation.’’" You thought it would last? Ah, so naive...

[Jervill]

This is the greatest thing ever.  Geocities will never die as long as we remember it.

[Zrk2]

Dis shit cray.

[Aqizzar]

So many under construction banners...

Goddamn am I glad that even at the age of thirteen I knew better than to involve myself in this crap.  I had a cousin a few years older than me who got into a Personal Website Battle with a friend.  Just an escalating shitty pile of Tomb Raider clipart to see who could be cooler than each other.

[Sir Finkus]

Not geocities, but it probably still counts.

If you like that, they'll design a site for you.  They charge by the inch.

[Whitefoxsniper]

As someone who was not allowed access to the internet before quality pages became more common I have to say... These geocities look like the internet got drunk and puked all over the screen.

It's awesome.

[Enzo]

Time to live out a little nostalgia! Good times, man. Pre-1998 internet was the shit. Dialing up the Netscape and all that. Thank god I learned HTML a few years later, after people had largely discovered how awful this stuff looks, so I never made a page quite so bad. I'm probably the only one, but I find it funny looking at the broken-ass HTML in the sources.

Take HTML advice from this guy! IFrames and Horizontal-Scrolling Navigation bars never go out of style!

[Silfurdreki]

I'm amazed that we managed to not get permanently damaged sight from browsing the web in the 90's.All the Netscape gifs/banners/whatever are making me nostalgic, though.

Not that I browsed the web much back then, browsing on my parents old 56k modem was expensive as all hell.

[RedKing]

And this is why I thought the World Wide Web would never catch on. I remember trying out Mosaic and looking at a few pages and thinking "Christ, this is slow. And ugly to boot. I just want information. Who on earth would give a shit about seeing someone's cats or reading what some random yahoo's favorite books are?"

And then I went back to my Lynx browser and my Gopher client and turned my back on a trillion dollars in potential money-making ideas that I could have had.

LYNX4EVER. We wuz old-skool in the day.

[Reudh]

I used the internet for the first time in 1998, age 6. The only two websites I knew were ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) and some cricket website that I wonder why I remembered.

Then in early 2003 when we got a computer, I discovered Runescape, and played it more or less daily-to-weekly for almost seven years.

[Silfurdreki]

I used the internet for the first time in 1998, age 6. The only two websites I knew were ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) and some cricket website that I wonder why I remembered.

Then in early 2003 when we got a computer, I discovered Runescape, and played it more or less daily-to-weekly for almost seven years.

Oh gods, I played the shit out of Runescape in when I was ten or so. I think me getting online on the 56k-modem without permission to play that, with the huge phone bills it generated, was the thing that made my parents finally get an ADSL internet connection.

Edit: it's kind of funny how I'm confusing this thread with the "IM GETTING SO OLD!" thread. They're kind of merging in my memory.

[Svarte Troner]

http://reocities.com/Heartland/2122/

I don't know what to think of this.

[penguinofhonor]

Web 1.0 was the worst thing to ever happen to anyone.

I remember when everyone was complaining about the whole Web 2.0 design shift. "Why does everything have to have rounded corners?" God, the world was dumb back then.

[dreadmullet]

http://reocities.com/Heartland/2122/

I don't know what to think of this.

If you go to the guestbook, it looks like everyone on there is a spambot. But the sad truth is, none of them are spambots, they're completely genuine. How things have changed...

[Agdune]

Welcome... to the technology of the future!
We have numbers!
Obnoxious noises!
Parking solutions!
Detailed listings and pictures of our family members, showing their favorite activites and websites!
Tributes to suicide cults!
Wedding Details!
Super cool... somethings!
and many more gems!

This is pretty damn sweet. Seeing it again, I almost miss that "sorry, under construction" sign that would pop up after almost every link. Almost made it rewarding to come across a page that had actually been completed :p