One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age | Digging through the Geocities Torrent

Ghostwriter site, but no zombie links ⁋ by olia

chowder + links + navigation 2011-01-27

Stuart Schneider is a writer, lawyer, collector, traveller. His website http://www.wordcraft.net/ represents all his life and passions. That’s why it needs a long navigation on the left. I even needed to disable navigation and status bars in my browser to make a screenshot of it.

“FFFFUUUUUUUU,” — a contemporary web designer will say. — “awful graphics, terrible typography, trashy transparency, more than 7 elements!” Yes, indeed, everything is clumsy, except for one thing: if you click on a link button, this button will not appear on the next page. There are a lot of halloween items on the website, but no Zombie Links!

Do you know many contemporary webpages that don’t contain links leading to the same page that is already displayed?

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Two Bad GIFs ⁋ by olia

GIF 2011-01-26

Both found at http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/1728/

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Under Construction as Design Element ⁋ by olia

design + pentagon + under construction 2011-01-26

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

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Felix in Pentagon ⁋ by olia

felix + GIF + last updated 1999 + neighborhoods + pentagon 2011-01-25

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

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pentagon + table 2011-01-25

Original URL: http://geocities.com/Pentagon/1040/

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Geocities vs. Tripod ⁋ by olia

tripod + webmaster 2011-01-24

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/

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ruins 2011-01-24

Original URL: http://geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1133/

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“my links” ⁋ by olia

links 2011-01-23

There were times when web users linked search engines, not the other way round.

Original URL: http://geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/1167/

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Software ⁋ by despens

GIF + last updated 2006 + software 2011-01-23

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: