00's feeling websites

[rejectconvenience]

http://www.geocities.ws/ccqsk/

Found from reading this article: https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/12500401 ... ive-review

[Sooshi]

I've been using https://neocities.org/ for a little while. It's supposed to be akin to Geocities. If it weren't for my ADHD, I'd probably sit myself down and make a cool website myself, but CSS drains me so much lol.

[rejectconvenience]

but CSS drains me so much lol.

CSS is the worst lol I have to edit it a LOT at work, drives me nuts

[Linkard]

I've been using https://neocities.org/ for a little while. It's supposed to be akin to Geocities. If it weren't for my ADHD, I'd probably sit myself down and make a cool website myself, but CSS drains me so much lol.

I love neocities ! I actually worked on a website from scratch for a month or two, but eventually stopped.

https://linkard.neocities.org/

[seasnails]

Yeah, Neocities has a ton of great stuff that feels nice and older-era web. I actually partially recreated my old Geocities site on it and had a ton of fun! Some other terms I've seen thrown around for this type of stuff are "yesterweb" or "indie web" (I think the latter is more about people having their own independent sites instead of just a presence on the social media giants).

Some other fun old-era-feeling sites:

https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ (classic example)
https://yesterweb.org/
https://goblin-heart.net/
https://dimden.dev/

I get the CSS loathing, I don't enjoy doing it for work either because everyone seems to want goofy stuff, like those pages that you have to scroll down in order to "animate". Just give me the information I want, arrgh! What I've had fun with CSS-wise lately is setting up multiple different really simple designs for the same site. It keeps my low-attention-span brain satisfied jumping between them (or making new ones) and it can be fun coming up with deliberately simple small-scale setups, just like it's fun using straight HTML instead of overly complicated frameworks and languages. It also helps me focus on actual content when I'm writing the content and then I can worry about design later, as long as I properly ID and class all my elements.

[Stefen_Maxwell]

I get the CSS loathing, I don't enjoy doing it for work either because everyone seems to want goofy stuff, like those pages that you have to scroll down in order to "animate". Just give me the information I want, arrgh!

I hate the light phone website so much for this. It is so annoying how normalized it is to have that style. That being said, do you have any good resources on how to learn CSS and frontend stuff. College focuses on the backend a lot so I have no idea what to do on the front end.

[MikeGs]

If you like getting all kinds of detailed info regarding space missions, space vehicles, rocket stages, spaceports and schedules, this one also screams 00's. I don't think it has changed at all since it's creation:
https://space.skyrocket.de/index.html

I got to say, I found that website extremely informative if you're into that kind of stuff.

[rejectconvenience]

Fantastic addition @MikeGs, I love this so much

[Mark]

A classic, http://textfiles.com/ (must be http). I used to get bored and browse this archive of old text files.

[MikeGs]

A classic, http://textfiles.com/ (must be http). I used to get bored and browse this archive of old text files.

Oh wow I really like that website, particularly the survival section. Thanks for the suggestion!