I once rebuilt an internal employee directory tool, and added the ability for people to add an emoji below their name.
Before that, hardly anyone used the internal directory, which is probably why I inherited it (I was the stig). After the feature was added, people went nuts and used it all the time. I feel bad for the guy who runs it now, as I understand he is bombarded with feature requests from the employees.
Obligatory mention of Hypnospace Outlaw, a game where you play a moderator of a 1990s AOL-style internet (right down to the tiled backgrounds and flame gifs) and uncover a mystery.
Oh, hey, that's my archive!!! I noticed a sudden jump in activity to my neocities and through a little bit of sleuthing (a single search on Twitter) I found a post, and through that post I found this website...kinda wild to see my little archive being noticed anywhere, but I am definitely flattered!
I miss having my own little website. It wasn't a blog or even a weblog because those words didn't exist yet. I especially miss the mix of icons and widgets I'd curate at the bottom of the page, the most important of which was the counter (which was mostly counting my own visit to my own page). This was probably around 1994 when I was 12 or 13.
i recall the glorious day the linkexchange counter on my site hit 10k. still waiting on my check for $176 from featuring cyberthrills casino banner ads though.
Geocities and Angelfire are how I learned to program for the web. Amazing how much of the fundamentals of the web are still exactly the same as they were back then (90s). Just with a lot more layers of libraries today.
A great thing about the Web is it can still be programmed just like it was thirty years ago. Unless you actually need an application a lot of web tooling and libraries are a waste of time. It's a great medium for actual documents.
I think I recognize some of these as coming from a tiled background pack I used back in the 90s. Maybe associated with the Enlightenment Window Manager project?
Wish I found this sooner; my first website I made many years ago contains 2 or 3 background images which I also found on various neocity sites (yungztrunks.de)
Readit News
Stop all the corpo-brutalist nonsense and give me back my flame gifs!
Before that, hardly anyone used the internal directory, which is probably why I inherited it (I was the stig). After the feature was added, people went nuts and used it all the time. I feel bad for the guy who runs it now, as I understand he is bombarded with feature requests from the employees.
I think it was called something like Terralogic Texture Maker (ttm.exe) and I've been looking for it for years.
DOS ver 0.95: https://www.geocities.ws/freewin3/textrev.html
Win32 ver 1.1: https://www.jazz2online.com/tilesets/stuff/TTM32.zip
Win32 ver 2.0: https://web.archive.org/web/20240213195823/https://www.sac.s...
Both Win32 versions worked for me in Wine just now:
https://i.imgur.com/nRan0Z0.png (1.1)
https://i.imgur.com/976wzwh.png (2.0)
It's free and fabulous.
I think that was my single greatest resource, and on a huge majority of sites it won't get you far anymore.