u/ServiceForeign7862

I'm making an art project inspired by the old internet, and for that I've been browsing old geocities websites, and there's just something so special about them.

I'm 21, so by the time I found my way around a computer a lot of the internet was already centralized in the big social media websites that are still around today. Even then, back when I was a kid exploring the internet, it was still a lot more customizable to each user.

But geocities is something else! You can really feel that there was a person who sat down on their desktop, learned html and made whatever they wanted.

I've seen fanfiction websites, websites for specific anime, kids blogs, family blogs, blogs about psychology, about internet safety, blogs just made for downloading gifs. Literally anything and everything!

I saw one I particularly liked which was from a little girl from Hong Kong who made a class presidency campaign website, where the background was all pastel rainbow colors and filled with cute gifs, with the promises that if she became president there would be less homework and so on.

So! If you've ever had an experience with geocities or had your own personal website or explored websites like these, please share!

I'm making an art project inspired by the old internet, and for that I've been browsing old geocities websites, and there's just something so special about them.

I'm 21, so by the time I found my way around a computer a lot of the internet was already centralized in the big social media websites that are still around today. Even then, back when I was a kid exploring the internet, it was still a lot more customizable to each user.

But geocities is something else! You can really feel that there was a person who sat down on their desktop, learned html and made whatever they wanted.

I've seen fanfiction websites, websites for specific anime, kids blogs, family blogs, blogs about psychology, about internet safety, blogs just made for downloading gifs. Literally anything and everything!

I saw one I particularly liked which was from a little girl from Hong Kong who made a class presidency campaign website, where the background was all pastel rainbow colors and filled with cute gifs, with the promises that if she became president there would be less homework and so on.

So! If you've ever had an experience with geocities or had your own personal website or explored websites like these, please share!

I'm using gifcities[.]org for an art project, and I go into some of the websites the gifs are linked to. I've found some real gems in there!

However, despite me blocking automatic downloads, I think some websites used to automatically play music, and when that's the case it automatically downloads a .mid file to my device.

What are the odds that a 2009 .mid file is a mean virus? lol

I always delete and have never opened any of them, if that means anything.