Flashback Friday #3 – Geocities & Angelfire

Before social media took over, Geocities and Angelfire were where the internet’s real creativity happened. These free web hosting platforms let people build anything they wanted—from personal diaries to deep-dive fan shrines to completely bizarre conspiracy hubs.

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@indieweb @smallweb @neocities ##angelfire ##geocities ##indieweb ##nostalgia ##oldweb ##smallweb ##webdesign ##webdev ##webrevival

https://smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%f0%9f%92%99-flashback-friday-3-%f0%9f%92%99-geocities-angelfire/

A rambling review of the start of O.B.I.T.: an episode of the original The Outer Limits series, https://theonlyblogever.com/blog/2025/outer_spying.html. As it turns out, I have lots to say and my blog has been a wonderful outlet. #blog #theouterlimits #nerdstuff #oldweb

Thread Thursday #2

What's your favorite part about owning a personal website? What inspired you to focus on this aspect of your site? How does it make you feel to see your ideas come to life online?

Let us know!

@indieweb @smallweb @neocities #indieweb #NekoWeb #neocities #nostalgia #oldweb #smallweb #webdesign #webdev #webrevival

Reminder: If you have a website you can put my 88x31 banner on it if you like!!
https://zelda.zone/fan-art/zelda-zone-88x31-blueylewis/

Let's be a web ring again!

The #oldweb is making a #comeback!

From: @AssociatedPress
https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/business-and-finance-pbj3bpclz/-/a-EUUbbHakSeKCcmnaE6hdUQ%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0

I added text message style speech bubbles for my website today using css and html on my eleventy site. Check it out, https://theonlyblogever.com/about #oldweb
#blog
#frontend

wrote a page about witchcraft for my website and it became a short essay type of a deal, mostly about white settler paganism.

https://catnurse.neocities.org/foray/witchcraft.html #witchcraft #ethics #culturalAppropriation #oldweb #neocities

Angelfire homepage, October, 1996

tonight's stream is retro website spelunking!
Come join us at 6 PM and enjoy the best the 90s had to offer, and also celebrate my finally getting my legal name change!!
https://youtube.com/live/J58U9WV0v98

Looks fun!

SpaceHey: A Fan-made Tribute to MySpace https://theawesomer.com/spacehey-a-tribute-to-myspace/761992/

Hey hey, who wants to swap #88x31 #retro web buttons??

https://zelda.zone/fan-art/zelda-zone-88x31-blueylewis/

#webring time

more and more sites are getting listed in the Blue Pages.

and you should too!

Join now at https://blupages.short.gy/submit

#NOTICE: Do people here know #usenet, #finger and other obscure protocols? I've been thinking about adding them into The Blue Pages lately and been looking into popular resources for the aforementioned. I'm also looking at popular (and useful) #gopherholes and #geminispaces too if any.

Archive of NO LIMITS: a TNA/Indy Wrestling fanfic archive from 2004. AJ Styles seems to be the big favorite bicycle here.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050409181914/http://archive.hopelessfancy.net/index2.html

Here's an archive.org link to "Cypress Club", an early 2000's site for "extreme" wrestling fanfiction.

https://web.archive.org/web/20081207041843/http://www.cypressfic.net/disclaimer.html

By extreme, I mean the first fic in the library is a manic pixie Jeff Hardy in pigtails murdering Funaki for his sugar daddy Raven.

If you hear me talk about a fic where Triple H and Scott Steiner erotically inject each other with steroids, I found that story from this site's sister links to affiliated authors

Fic doujin circles.. good idea. Band of freaks together writing RPF serial killer cannibal AUs to the point that the wrasslers become their OCs.

bringing up my new forum again

into #music, #film, #literature, #games, #travel, #technology, #food / #culinary, #oldweb, etc?

join the forum! we're having lots of fun here

https://talk.opn.haus/

if you want to see a #trans girl absolutely giggle herself to death to #retro 90s websites, "green alien singing jus the two of us", and ancient christmas GIFs, here you go, Subjects:

A fan suggested calling this Internet Exploring or smth, thoughts? I want a catchy name...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOnNWsDh-uc

Capitalist social media is bad, but I will never be nostalgic for the "old web," since I actually remember what it was like. Websites were all slow and shitty, half of them would infect your computer with a virus, there were dead links and broken images everywhere. People were obsessed with posting slurs, swastikas and gore. I witnessed all kinds of sickening things when all I was doing was looking for video game cheat codes and Disney movie fan art.

It's good to promote personal websites, but let's not romanticize the past.

We're live TONIGHT with #Christmas / #Holiday #retro #websites! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOnNWsDh-uc

These real 90s website streams are my favorite segment, so don't worry if it's slightly late the websites are 30 years old anyway they don't know it's a week or two late.

Tonight we're streaming a bunch of 90s Holiday themed websites from archive.org or just the live web! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOnNWsDh-uc
These are my least marketable but most enjoyable streams for me personally, so check it out if you like!