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Found a link that turns your browser into a 1994 GeoCities ghost town
I was cleaning out some old bookmarks on my work computer last night and stumbled on this site called 'Neon Dinosaur World.' Clicked the link and my whole browser instantly looked like someone vomited pixelated star backgrounds and Comic Sans all over it. There was a MIDI file of the Mortal Kombat theme blasting from some hidden auto-play player. Scrolling down, I found a guestbook that still worked and had entries from 1998 asking where to download Winamp skins. The whole thing was held together by broken image icons and a hit counter frozen at 1,247. I laughed for a solid ten minutes before my IT alert kicked in from the CPU spike. Has anyone else found a live relic from the old web that somehow still runs without crashing everything?
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butler.shane28d ago
Did you actually sign the guestbook or just stare at it?
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Did you try clicking any of those broken image icons? Sometimes they lead to hidden pages or weird easter eggs that still work. I found one of those retro sites a few months ago and the guestbook had a link to a "web ring" that still redirected to five other active pages from 1999. Also, what was the actual URL? I wanna see if the hit counter is real or just an old CGI script that froze.
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