oh yeah, it was waaaay more heterogeneous. I think around mid 2000s is when things started becoming super normalized, but websites used to have much weirder looks, content felt much more genuine and communities had much more honesty to them.
It's hard to convey, but there was a much wider variety across both aesthetics and content.
I still remember when AlbinoBlackSheep celebrated “epilepsy week” when they published tons of flash animations of blinking colors and lights. Try flying that now. I’m pretty sure someone went to jail for tweeting one of those to a journo.
💯 I remember following photoshop tutorials to make neon banners with realistic fire effects and water droplets for angelfire pages.
I think MySpace preserved some of the weirdness but it died when google/Twitter/Facebook became the portal to the internet for the masses.
Bring back Geocities over Nostr!
Interesting that I missed all of this. My knowledge for understanding computers basic level and the internet barely able to know about it. Now feel I'm just in time to watch a modern version of that. 😆🤙
