#00s internet

[bottlesforbeasts]

The Old Web part 1: Neocities and Geocities

Today I discovered the Old Web movement.

As a 2003 kiddo I was not an internet user in the late 90s and early 2000s when the "old internet" was at its height. But I recently discovered that there lies a place beyond our Twitters and Instagrams of the present. Deeper into the internet there is a thriving community of personal, amateur-coded, not-for-profit websites, many of which are hosted on Neocities.

But before we can really get into neocities, we must talk about it's ancestor geocities. Geocities was created in 1994 by David Bohnett and John Reznor to be a website-hosting service and a way to discover people's personal websites. In 1999 it was bought out by yahoo! (the destroyer) at a time when it was the third most popular website on the whole internet. Yahoo! changed a bunch of shit, forgoing the "cities" aspect of grouping together websites of a certain theme so that people can discover websites related to their interests. Yahoo! instead wanted to focus on using the person's yahoo! usernames in the URLs. This is one of the first of MANY times that corporations will ruin things on the internet for the sake of profit.

Yahoo! eventually decided geocities wasn't profitable enough, even after the website had added advertisements, paid premium benefits (which screwed over people who didn't pay), and a geocities watermark on every website it hosted that you couldn't remove. Geocities was killed by yahoo! in 2009.

Shortly after the website was announced to be shutting down Internet Archive (bless them) and a few other groups made it their mission to archive the geocities websites that would otherwise be wiped from the internet forever. These campaigns were widely successful.

After geocities was gone, there was now a niche to fill. Neocities sprung up four years later, taking its place. In 2023 it boasts over 600,000 websites being hosted on its platforms. It has links to people's personal websites, a webcomic where a cat teaches you HTML, and many guides to making your own website.

The community of custom website owners is alive and well, equipped with HTML knowledge, friendship, a healthy dose of nostalgia, and their own manifesto. They believe in the idea that the internet was better before everything was dictated by profit, algorithms, and efficiency. I'll get more into the community aspect in part 2.

#neocities #geocities #old web #webcore #internet #internet history #internet culture #textpost #90s internet #00s internet #old internet

[neopetsimages]

#blue #neopets #kadoatie #slorg #neopia #nostalgia #00s internet

[sarahstrawberrysparkle]

#mimitchi #tamagotchi #blingee #webcore #internet aesthetic #old internet #00s internet #sparkle gif #glittercore #sarahstrawberrysparkle #sarahsstuff

[strawbxrrymilkyyt]

Archive of Nick.com

December 10, 2009

#nickelodeon #nick #nick.com #late 2000s #2000s #2000s web #nostagiacore #nostalgia #2009 #webcore #spongebob squarepants #icarly #old web #2000s aesthetic #2000s internet #00s #2000s kid #2000s core #00s core #00s internet #internetcore #00s aesthetic #y2k #y2k aesthetic #2000s blog #y2k blog

[funstyle]

this 👆

#shygirl mention‼️ #graphics #2000s nostalgia #00s internet #webcore

[lipglossgirl]

little debbie unicorn cakes`~

#y2k #2000s aesthetic #webcore #dirty y2k #blinkies #00sweb #00s internet #web graphics #my edit #edit by me

[decora-clown]

just in case y’all didn’t know, more charlie the unicorn episodes came out all the way up until 2018 and they’re fucking AWESOME (you should watch them /nf)

#charlie the unicorn #internet nostalgia #nostalgia #2000s #web series #00s #00s internet

[arconinternet]

Something Is Awful (Website/Hoax, Richard Kyanka/Dr. David Thorpe/Kevin Pereira/Chris Putnam, 2005)

When a writer for notorious comedy website Something Awful got a TV interview on G4's Attack of the Show, the website's owner instructed him to prevent people joining the site as a result by making it seem terrible... and to give the wrong URL, which led to a phony site, which you can view on the Wayback Machine here.

You can watch the interview here, and read a little about its history in a contemporary NeoGAF forum thread here.

You can learn a LOT more about Something Awful from the podcast I'm From the Internet.

#internet archive #wayback machine #internet history #web history #old internet #old web #00s internet #2000s internet #prank #pranks #hoax #hoaxes #g4 #attack of the show #something awful #sa forums #internet forums #podcast #podcasts #2005 #2000s #00s

[kalithegeek]

Gaia shirt finished! I also embroidered a pair of mini angel wings to pin to my OMG, but I may put them on a jacket afterward cuz they came out so cute!

I'm making a crochet pattern for a Kiki kitty now.

#gaia online #go gaia #00s internet #nostalgia #cosplay #machine embroidery #mini angel wings #anime #handmade #home made #crafts

[cosmicyellow]

Remember how SERIOUS anti-piracy ads were? Like the feds were gonna come ram your front door down for downloading 22MBs worth of the Fresh Prince intro 😭 WELL

ASDFGHJKL HAHAHAHA I need to find other Tumblr users that find this as funny as I do

#anti piracy #piracy #90s #tpb #pirate bay #law #shitpost #meme #internet history #limewire #REMEMBER LIMEWIRE??? #90s internet #00s internet #cyber nostalgia #niche humor #????

[flowergirlmiwa]

when i was a kid growing up on the internet i lived in fear of screamers. they were in the flash movies. they were in youtube videos. they were in gifs of empty rooms. they were in links you clicked on. what a spooky time

#my post #00s internet

[xx-k1tsun3-k1d-xx]

just been informed some of y’all don’t know Boxxy

SHE IS BOXXY U SEE!?

Channels still up (not troollin!)

#scenecore #scene #emocore #scene revival #scene aesthetic #scemo #00s internet #00s nostalgia #old web #2000s #boxxy

[neopetsimages]

#neopets #lavender #pink #webcore #00s internet #nostalgia #y2k

[xxvampirewolf123xx]

2004

#naruto #2000s #halloween #00s internet #00s anime #find #art #tw: gun

[wretched-little-thing]

Haven't been active here bc I realized I actually have to study to pass finals BUT it has been almost a month since I saw Gojira live and my outfit for the concert felt pretty nu-metallish

#2000s #2000s goth #90s goth #90s mallgoth #alt girl #alternative girl #nu metal #groove metal #2000s emo #hot topic #korn #kittie #goth girl #gojira #y2k goth #mall goth #mallgoth #00s nostalgia #00s internet

[alastaircraig]

It was the last I ever heard from her.

#bonzi buddy #bonzimail #90s internet #00s internet #icq #geocities