I finally dug up my old GeoCities page from 1997

I had to use the Wayback Machine for like an hour to find it, and it was just a page about my dog with a tiled background and a visitor counter. It's wild to think I spent a whole weekend learning basic HTML for that. What was the first thing you ever put online?

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david_singh617mo ago

Remember those guestbooks where people left messages? My first site had one filled with inside jokes that make zero sense now. It's like finding a time capsule written in a lost language.

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dixon.daniel7mo ago

Man, I bet future archaeologists will think those were our sacred texts.

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nathan_torres344mo ago

And yeah, that's the thing about old web artifacts. I still tell people to screenshot their own old stuff because the servers will die eventually. That's what I've been trying to tell @dixon.daniel, man. Your guestbook from 2005 is basically a digital fossil waiting to be misinterpreted. You ever actually look back at the cringe you left on someone's site?

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