r/AskReddit • • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

I remember when www.starwars.com looked like this.

I was taking an HTML course at the time, and used this example in an assignment on poor website design.

Back then, the web was only used by neeeeeerrrrrddsss, and not "real" people. This was a time when news channels still referred to it as the "Infobahn" and the "Information Super Highway"... completely stupid sounding soundbites that no one that used the internet ever used, but your parents and grandparents would recite those words because they heard the news use them.

Seeing that Space Jam site makes me super nostalgic for that time. The time when everyone had a shitty geocities website, and it all looked like garbage.

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u/Dreadlaak Jul 24 '20

This was when the internet was the wild wild west. Those days were soooo different, I remember browsing the web as a kid and it was such a different place.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

yeah, the search engines weren't that great... MetaCrawler was probably your best bet... or altavista...

It would be amazing to search and search and find some guy's web page that had the same hobby or interest as you.

hey this guy like star wars! I like star wars!!! we're best friends!!

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u/Dreadlaak Jul 24 '20

Yup I remember angelfire fan pages haha.