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Working on a website for my sister. I got some grainy gifs and a visitor counter. What else?

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 84 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"Under Construction"

"Best viewed in Netscape Navigator 3.0 or higher"

"An error has occurred in the script on this page."

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 21 points 3 weeks ago

Web Ring link

[–] creamfresh@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

A sitemap is still good accessibility practice for e.g. screenreader navigation.

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago

They were everywhere:

22857

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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|         |                             |
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| Frame 1 |                             |
|         |                             |
|         |                             |
|---------|                             |
|         |          Frame 3            |
|         |                             |
|         |                             |
|         |                             |
| Frame 2 |                             |
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[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 37 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

For me it's webrings. And, they're back. I'm in a hurry so fame l can't research for you, but, they exist.

[–] LeighWeighTacoma@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Lot of people on neocities.org use them!

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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Guest log.

Web rings.

β€œSecret” links like clicking on an unassuming graphic takes you to a secret page.

Contact info that includes a fax machine phone #

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[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] ving_thor@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

With a unsecured mysql database in the backend...

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[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

An image gallery for no apparent reason with photos of your pets and family with no apparent image size or dimension consistency. Different fonts on everything often in different colours. Random string of emojis that are not of the standard type (there wasn't a standard yet). A background of a single colour or simple repeating pattern.

Ha. And everyone has red eyes.

[–] Nemoder@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 weeks ago

Two paragraphs talking about how great you feel about finally getting on the World Wide Web. Include as many typos as possible.

A dozen links to other websites (make sure at most only 2 of them actually work).

Excessive use of the BLINK tag in titles.

Copy and paste some random Ascii art but make sure not to use the right font so nothing aligns properly.

Real Audio music files.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Repeating background texture that makes the text a bit hard to read. Begging visitors to sign the guestbook. 'Under construction' gif for pages that aren't done yet. Autoplay midi (probably not possible nowadays).

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[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

πŸ‘‰CLICK HERE to E-MAILπŸ‘ˆ

Email is the link, not the words click here and certainly not the entire thing.

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[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Dancing baby gif somewhere on the page is a must.

A random button that directs you to "You Are An Idiot" hosted on albinoblacksheep.com
Bonus points if you can get it to look like it's still running on Shockwave flash

Maybe a geocities domain?

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[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] misterbrisby@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

.wav background music starts playing and maybe you can turn it off. But maybe not.

Oh no way, had to be shitty midi covers of Beatles songs.

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[–] creamfresh@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago
  • use tables for layout, don’t hide the borders and don’t merge them
  • also use iframes for root layout
  • use the first 16 named css colors only
  • only use default serif font in default size, don’t consider wide screens so body copy flows across the whole screen
[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

A CGI web-counter.

Good luck though, I found one page talking about them, it had 11 dead links to web counter pages.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 weeks ago

WAIT! I have something for this!

A collection of Geocities sites. Pick a category and enjoy!

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

frames

old html tags like marquee that might not work anymore

under construction

webring links

hardcode it to 800x600

that setting i forget the name of where the background image is static but everything else scrolls

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 weeks ago

animated gifs.

soooo many animated gifs

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Congratulations! You won!

[–] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

midi version of some popular (or relevant to whatever fandom the site is about) 90s song autoplaying and looping in the background

[–] trd@feddit.nu 6 points 3 weeks ago

Important that it resets when you click a link.

[–] highrfrequenc@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Autoplay a song and make the player controls tough to find

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

custom cursors

text in a colour other than black or white that doesn't stand out against the background well

refer to yourself as a 'webmaster'

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[–] LeighWeighTacoma@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hit random on neocities and came up with this:

https://empeethree.neocities.org/

I'd say that's pretty early 2000s

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[–] Twig@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Rom@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

Several ambitious and promising-sounding sections that will always just say 'under construction'

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A page with links to your favorite web sites, usually some really popular sites everyone knows.

A FAQ page. Remember to have a snarky fourth wall breaking conversation with your own questions and answers. Don't actually provide any useful information.

An obnoxious MIDI file playing in the background.

Don't be afraid to add a lot of GIF images. Some sort of skull or that dancing baby are crucial.

If you really hate your users, implement the whole page in Shockwave.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago

You need a banner ad where you have to punch the monkey to win a prize, and it changes the mouse pointer icon.

[–] LeanFemurs@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

mystery-meat imagemap navigation

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[–] Duchess@piefed.linenoise.vip 7 points 3 weeks ago

At least one broken image somewhere

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Page colors that looked like Skittles vomit.

Gotta have a really tacky tiled background JPG.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

1337 h4x0r 5p34k

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago
[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] jimerson@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Animated dividers. Like the blood dripping bar or the pulsing neon one. Or both if you were me.

[–] pixelpunk@feddit.org 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] davad@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Also marquee tag

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