Vanilla flares and a bad perm

[alias_sqbr]

As violetsquirrel reminded me, Geocities is going away!. (Anyone who was around the internet in the 90s should read that article, it's a work of art)

So, before it goes, here's my Geocities page. Fairly nondescript since I actually kept editing it until around 2001 (I got it back in my late teens. And I have to say, violetsquirrel saying "Oh no, my childhood!" makes me feel very old. We didn't have homepages when I was a child. We had to sumbit to class newspapers! Printed on dot matrix printers! In the snow!)

Anyone else got a Geocities page they want to share, revel in a bit of Gen X/Gen Y nostalgia?

I'd like to laugh at my siblings pages (they were children at the time, and very big fans of animated gifs. They've since moved on to MySpace) but alas I have lost the links. That award is from my sister, by the way, total nepotism in action.

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ahahaha

[zharradan.livejournal.com]

'"The Sending",the fifth Obernewtyn book, is the last one (we hope!), and will (we hope again) be out September 2003!'

[elaran.livejournal.com]

ahahahaha

i think i was pretty late to the geocities party but i remember trying to read fic and coming across so many broken links :P

[evil-megz.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I was into the internet during the geocities era, but never got into geocities at all. I had a PEAC course in, I think, year 4 where we made REAL webpages, but I really struggled because I couldn't think of any information to put on my page. It made me feel really bad for having no hobbies while everybody else was making cool pages about horses or go-karts. The weirdest thing looking back is that I did have hobbies and things I could have made a webpage about... I guess I just never considered anything webpage worthy.

[evil-megz.livejournal.com]

Actually, must have been '97 or '98, so year 5 or 6. I worked this out as one of the things I did have to write about was that my favourite band was Arkarna - a somewhat obscure alt electro/rock band similar to the Prodigy. I'm so proud of my 10yr-old-self's music tastes. All the other girls would have said Hanson.

[evil-megz.livejournal.com]

I actually just put MMM Bop into my head. Crap.

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaha.

*ahem*

I'm sorry?

[evil-megz.livejournal.com]

Mmm bop, ba duba dop ba du bop, ba duba dop ba du bop, ba duba dop ba du


*glare*

[elaran.livejournal.com]

ahahahahah

[trs80.ucc.asn.au (from livejournal.com)]

Oh man, PEAC.

[sanguinity]

I had a geocities-era page that wasn't on geocities. It isn't on the net anymore, either, but it is on my laptop.

Also, that page was the origin of this username, now that I think of it.

...which is one of the reasons I don't have that page on the web anymore. ;-)


I liked looking at your first homepgae. :-)

I couldn't figure out your discussion of the stained-glass paint. You talk about it as if it's more fragile than the glass? As if it's supposed to be taken off the glass, maybe? Because when I did that when I was a kid, the paint always became integral to the glass.

[warpwind.livejournal.com]

Mine's still on there. The horror can be found here... http://www.geocities.com/warpwind82

Yours wouldn't load properly for me. I'll try it again when I back into Perth tomorrow but they may have caught on to all of the internet indulging in nostalgia and pulled it down even earlier

Re: ahahaha

[alias_sqbr]

I KNOW I KNOW. And that was the shifted forward date.

[alias_sqbr]

Yeah, I was digging through my old links to people's homepages and they are all dead :(

[alias_sqbr]

Hahahaha...crap now I have it too

[alias_sqbr]

There's two types. The type I was using forms a flexible slightly stretchy plastic which can be removed and reused. Very useful when renting :)

[alias_sqbr]

Yay for black backgrounds and purple text, mine has that too :D