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My first HTML project from 1999 still loads, should I update it or leave it as a time capsule?
I dug up my old personal homepage on GeoCities tonight, the one I built in Notepad back in high school. The guestbook still works and someone actually left a message in 2022 asking if I was still alive. The GIFs are broken but the basic layout is there, took about 4 hours of digging through old floppy disks to find the original files. So do I polish it up for modern browsers or keep the 56k modem era look for archival purposes?
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eric_carr6h ago
GeoCities might've been the host back then, not the domain name you typed in.
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perez.christopher22h ago
someone actually left a message in 2022 asking if I was still alive" - that's hilarious and also kinda sad lol. But seriously, I'd say keep it as is. The broken GIFs and all that add so much character. You can't fake that authentic 1999 vibe. Clean it up too much and you lose what makes it special.
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