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Finally got my old Geocities page to load in Netscape 4.7
I spent all weekend digging out my old Windows 98 machine from my parents' attic. The page was a mess of broken image links and a tiled background of dancing hamsters. I had to manually edit the HTML to fix the paths, but seeing it load completely after 20 years felt like a tiny victory. It's wild how much we relied on those 'under construction' GIFs back then. Anyone else try to resurrect their old web stuff lately?
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scott.grace1mo ago
Manually editing those HTML paths is the real test of patience! I had to do that with my old Tripod site. I found that using a local server on my modern computer, like with a simple Python script, made fixing broken links way easier before I even touched the old machine. Those tiled backgrounds are a nightmare to track down now.
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michaelrodriguez1mo ago
Totally feel you on the local server trick, that saved me a ton of headaches. I used to run a small Apache setup on my laptop just to test all the relative links before uploading anything. Hunting for those tiny background tile images was the worst part, half my time was spent on image searches. What did you use to host your old site back then?
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