I was going down memory lane, I graduated in 96. But Internet culture of the mid 2000s to mid 2015. Seemed like there was always some stand out video or event ranging from chocolate rain video, nyan cat, amazing horse, I like turtles, why does the Internet seem so stale lately? I just realized a lot of this fun stuff stopped around 2014 or became less prevalent the closer we get to events that started dividing us, like gamergate, Trump canidancy in 2015. God this last decade has just sucked and it just keeps getting worse. How did we go to so much hope and promise to where we are now? Even reddit sucks now

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    19 hours ago

    Check out neocities. It has some of the fun again.

    Theres a lot of corpo trash out there. Find the fun.

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      19 hours ago

      I will. I did a nostalgia trip tonight because I had a panic attack when I realized this year is my 30 year class reunion. I have no intentions of going in a class of 28, the 5 that I remained in contact with went hard core maga including my best friend. The other not very close but will talk every few months or so.

      Just freaked my self out, HS literally feels like a lifetime ago. Hell my mid 20s to 30s feels like a lifetime ago. I need to invest more in myself now I’ve realized

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      Ah, neocities, had a site there for some time, it’s very good. It truely revives the feeling of “surfing on the web” that geocities gave with thoses 88x31 buttons, thoses flashy gifs and thoses bright colors everywhere.

      It was at around 600000 websites not long ago and got beyond 1 million recently, seems like it’s blowing up in popularity (I hope for the better).

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        when I was a kid I cared deeply about making a super awesome, aesthetically-pleasing site but I had no life experience or knowledge to actually put on it. Now later in life, I have some meaningful things to put on there but I couldn’t give a hoot about aesthetics. I don’t even see the point of using CSS.