TIL my old Geocities site was more honest than my current portfolio

Had coffee with an old college buddy last week and he brought up my old Geocities page from 1998. He remembered the sparkly star cursor and the MIDI file that auto-played every time you loaded the page. But what hit me was when he said that site felt more like me than the polished portfolio I have now. I spent hours on that old thing just figuring out HTML tables and picking animated gifs that matched my mood. It was messy and full of typos but it had personality. My current design work is clean and professional but something got lost along the way. Has anyone else felt like their old school sites had more soul than the modern ones?

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anthony88315d ago

Nah you're right, Geocities was pure unfiltered chaos and I miss it.

max80814d ago

Geocities was the wild west of the internet. You never knew if you'd get a sparkly unicorn page or a blinking neon monstrosity. Everyone just did their own thing with no rules. Made the whole web feel alive and unpredictable. Can't get that vibe back.