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Site map
Web Ring link
A sitemap is still good accessibility practice for e.g. screenreader navigation.
They were everywhere:

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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.
Lot of people on neocities.org use them!
Guest log.
Web rings.
βSecretβ links like clicking on an unassuming graphic takes you to a secret page.
Contact info that includes a fax machine phone #
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.
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.
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).
πCLICK HERE to E-MAILπ
Email is the link, not the words click here and certainly not the entire thing.
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?
.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.
A CGI web-counter.
Good luck though, I found one page talking about them, it had 11 dead links to web counter pages.
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
animated gifs.
soooo many animated gifs
"You are visitor #36,738"
Congratulations! You won!
midi version of some popular (or relevant to whatever fandom the site is about) 90s song autoplaying and looping in the background
Important that it resets when you click a link.
Autoplay a song and make the player controls tough to find
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'
Hit random on neocities and came up with this:
https://empeethree.neocities.org/
I'd say that's pretty early 2000s
Several ambitious and promising-sounding sections that will always just say 'under construction'
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.
You need a banner ad where you have to punch the monkey to win a prize, and it changes the mouse pointer icon.
At least one broken image somewhere
Page colors that looked like Skittles vomit.
Gotta have a really tacky tiled background JPG.
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Webrings.
The pride of our nation, Internet Mahir: I kiss you!
https://web.archive.org/web/20020726141104/http://www.istanbul.tc/mahir/mahir/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahir_%C3%87a%C4%9Fr%C4%B1
Dude was probably the first internet meme.
Animated dividers. Like the blood dripping bar or the pulsing neon one. Or both if you were me.