The time I bookmarked a 2003 Geocities page about lizard care and it's still online somehow

I was cleaning out my bookmarks yesterday (which I do about once every 18 months, honestly) and found this ancient bookmark from like 2006 called "Lizard Lair Central" or something. I clicked on it thinking it would be a dead link for sure, but no, it loaded up perfectly. The background was this hideous lime green with fire animations, the text was Comic Sans, and there were like 5 broken image icons of what I assume were iguanas. What really got me was the before and after difference though - the page looked exactly the same as I remembered from high school, but nowadays it feels like a time capsule from another planet. I spent 15 minutes just scrolling through this guy's tips on heating lamps and substrate choices, all written like a teenager who just discovered the internet. The wildest part? There was a hit counter on the bottom that still worked and showed like 47 visits this month. Has anyone else gone back to an old bookmark and found a page that's been frozen in time for 15+ years with zero updates?

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pat3607d ago

Don't you love how some stuff on the internet just never disappears?

abby_martin286d ago

Think about those old YouTube videos from 2006 that still pop up in random search results. Even if someone deletes their account, the content is still floating around on someone's hard drive or cached somewhere. It's honestly wild how once something is out there, it's basically there forever whether you like it or not.