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Because.
The Oldternet requires a monument to its glory, and the Septemberians cannot
make that happen. This site is made predominantly from my broken memory,
with Notepad++. The quality of the code varies by page, mainly because I'm
gradually remembering HTML 1.0 as I go along, as well as other things that
are being added to the site.
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Because the Oldternet is something that exists outside of time. The site was
created in December of XXX0, and dating it would ruin it, I guess? The date
range for the site is more or less 1992-1994, with a few minor exceptions
here and there. I couldn't be bothered to change the dates for the files in
the ZIP archives, though.
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I had the good fortune to browse the WWW in the days of the Oldternet. In fact,
the first thing I ever downloaded was the screensaver on the Files page. I didn't
get a chance to get back online for about six years, so the memory was pretty
well locked in place without the corruption of time. I spent a lot of time at
the public library when they got Internet-connected computers, and had a massive
stack of floppies to keep my art and other stuff on. When I got a computer of
my own, years later, I got rolling on making as much as I could. Artwork, game
maps and textures, and websites. Older websites started dying, being erased,
or otherwise disappearing. I've archived a few, and the Web Archive exists, but
really, time is limited. I'd like it if others would make their own retro-sites,
and Geocities, as well as other places, will host simple sites for free. Alas,
Geocities.ws uses Cloudflare, which blocks browsers like Netscape and Mozilla.
Fun. I've asked; they will not make exceptions for old browsers. Maybe other
hosts don't have such issues. There's just something about the early to mid
nineties web aesthetic that sticks with me. Thanks for popping by.
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