From 1995 to 1997 various under construction signs could be found almost on every web page. They were present and prominent, and still they would be positioned in the very bottom, or very top as a meta element of a page.
Sometimes they could be a part of the page’s design. But now for the first time I see an under construction bar that is the backbone of a website layout.
Original URL: http://geocities.com/Pentagon/1534
I’ve been following Felix the Cat for years. It is a great GIF, perfect loop, perfect transparency. He is not a rare visitor in the bottom of amateur web pages. But to find him on the home page of the “5th Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Flight” at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, was still a surprise. What is he doing there? I’ll make some circles in Pentagon Pride web ring to find it out.
Original URL: http://geocities.com/Pentagon/1260
Original URL: http://geocities.com/Pentagon/1040/
A user from neighborhood WallStreet/1043/ instructs newcomers:
“Membership of Geocities is free and each member is provided with up to 1M of disk space for free. You can get a few good images in a megabyte and I’ll do that as soon as I can get around to it. […] Tripod is similar to Geocities but provides only 100K of disk space. 100K is not the greatest but still sufficient to create a reasonable Web page, as long as you don’t go overboard with graphics – again linking to off site graphics is a space saving boon.”
100Kb!
Original URL: http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/1043/
Original URL: http://geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1133/
There were times when web users linked search engines, not the other way round.
Original URL: http://geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/1167/
Geocities did not only hosts lots of interesting amateur images, but also amateur software. For example Pete Bone’s “Pivot”, an editor for stick figure animations. (A stick figure elephant is also included!)
This is my miserable attempt at making “Stick man” and “realistic_man” walk towards each other:
See what impressive things the author himself could do … hosted by imageshack and therefore still alive.
Original URL: http://www.geocities.com/peter_bone_uk/pivot.html
This box is the only place on the site not using the browser’s default font.
Original URL: http://www.geocities.com/Eros_992165/index2.html
Original URL: http://www.geocities.com/EchoHeart9/index2.htm
Original URL: http://geocities.com/Area51/2008
