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A guy emailed me in 1998 about my GeoCities fan page and his one line still rattles around my head
I ran a little tribute shrine to a local arcade in my hometown of Dayton that only got maybe 40 hits a month, and one night a stranger named Dave emailed me to say the blinking text and rainbow dividers made his eyes hurt but he stayed for an hour anyway. He ended it with 'don't ever clean this up, it feels like a real place someone lives.' I still think about that whenever I see a slick modern site with nothing weird on it, so what random visitor comment stuck with you from back in the day?
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garcia.charles1d ago
Don't ever clean this up" hits hard because most of the old web got wiped by people who thought messy was the same as broken. The sites that felt lived in are the ones we remember, and a spotless page never made anyone stay an hour.
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