My old Angelfire portfolio made me cringe so hard I rebuilt it in a day

Back in 1999 I put up this Angelfire page for my freelance graphic design work, all tiled backgrounds and blinking gifs, the works. I pulled it up last weekend on a Wayback Machine crawl and literally laughed out loud at the guestbook where I answered questions in Comic Sans. The layout was a table-based mess with a hit counter stuck at like 1,200 visits, and my bio bragged about my 28.8k modem speed like it was a flex. So I spent Sunday rebuilding it as a modern portfolio for fun, but I kept the same bad copy just to see how it aged. What really got me was how much design changed in 25 years, yet I still miss the chaos of that old web. Anyone else ever dig up their old page and feel a weird mix of shame and nostalgia? How long did you keep your first site online before you nuked it?

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