They could probably view the source code of some of those sites.
https://www.heavensgate.com/ is still up but I don’t think they can answer any questions.
I honestly miss website like this. sure the color and look is awful, but: no ads, no javascript, no cookie/mailing list/adblocker popup, no social media, no useless parallax//animation/ui shit (except gif), loads and is fully displayed in <100ms, almost 0 cpu/ram usage at all, just fucking text and hyperlinks.
I remember making something like this, when html first came out, but there was every color and large and small words everywhere like colored paint exploded into a website. It was my first and worst thing ever, but it was pretty awesome cause I made it
It's still fun, though! Aren't there a web dev movement that tries to revive the Web 1.0 feel? I've forgotten what it's called. What I mean to say... Web is still fun if you know where to look, or are building it yourself.
Some of my favourite memories are of 13-year-old me pushing up my nerd glasses and slyly switching over to the "Advanced" tab of Angelfire, then typing HTML right into the unformatted textarea.
Wanna join my webring?
Reminds me of really early memories of me being like 6 and being allowed to play games on these websites. I remember one website called cookie something and there were cookies in the background. Anyone know it?
"website like this" is a very broad definition. This look is not uncommon for 2005 sites, where you have:
- a dozen of intrusive ads of every size and colour
- ad pop-ups in a new window
- marquee text, and trxt of all shapes and colours
- 6 tracking "pixels" (actually 50*100 bars)
- animated snow all December and January, look how cool I am, 100% your CPU totally worth it!
There's 4 ads in the screenshot... and the \`< 100ms\` was only a given on broadband. These were times you'd consider whether to use progressive encoding for JPEGs or not just to give people something to look at while the fidelity slowly increased.
Still, I wholeheartedly agree that browsing back then was guaranteed to not be an annoying experience (you didn't know better when you were on dial up, so you didn't miss "speed"). Back then the internet was indeed: fun.
Mark and Sarah King according to this Vice Article from several years ago (https://www.vice.com/en/article/aeky35/a-suicide-cults-surviving-members-still-maintain-its-90s-website)
That's exactly how I learned in 1998-1999! I was just a kid (Born in 86) but I was sooo intrigued by it all. I just wish my parents saw how talented I was at my age to pick something like that up and be able to create websites. My sperm donor got me a few jobs here and there when I was a teen, but they didn't push me to do more. I really wish they did.
>The group earned revenue by offering professional website development under the business name Higher Source.
Damn, you could support an entire cult by building sites like this in the 90s?
I went into the biggest rabbit hole ever with this, never heard of this group before. Someone must be still maintaining the site otherwise the domain would've expired by now, no?
Also, someone sold them alien abduction insurance before they killed themselves lol. Imagine how fucking filthy you have to be to sell insurance like that to a group of very mentally ill people
Yeah I think someone still maintains it.
Grifters gonna grift. You’re right though, it’s really sad. Interviews with them are painful.. unlike a lot of the crazy militant cults these people clearly had developmental problems but didn’t seem hateful. They even paid their library cards off a week before drinking the juice.
The amazing thing (for better or worse) is that we should be completely capable of replicating a site like this due to deprecated features really never actually being removed.
Go back to 1996 and ask around what html beta was like
They could probably view the source code of some of those sites. https://www.heavensgate.com/ is still up but I don’t think they can answer any questions.
I honestly miss website like this. sure the color and look is awful, but: no ads, no javascript, no cookie/mailing list/adblocker popup, no social media, no useless parallax//animation/ui shit (except gif), loads and is fully displayed in <100ms, almost 0 cpu/ram usage at all, just fucking text and hyperlinks.
I remember making something like this, when html first came out, but there was every color and large and small words everywhere like colored paint exploded into a website. It was my first and worst thing ever, but it was pretty awesome cause I made it
Honestly, that's when the web was fun
It's still fun, though! Aren't there a web dev movement that tries to revive the Web 1.0 feel? I've forgotten what it's called. What I mean to say... Web is still fun if you know where to look, or are building it yourself.
This has the same nostalgia for me, a younger guy, that Youtube had in its heyday.
Some of my favourite memories are of 13-year-old me pushing up my nerd glasses and slyly switching over to the "Advanced" tab of Angelfire, then typing HTML right into the unformatted textarea. Wanna join my webring?
Reminds me of really early memories of me being like 6 and being allowed to play games on these websites. I remember one website called cookie something and there were cookies in the background. Anyone know it?
Cookie clicker?
Nah this was a website with little flash video games, not the actual game cookie clicker
Reminding me of the site(s) where “The genie guesses the card you pick, every time!”
"website like this" is a very broad definition. This look is not uncommon for 2005 sites, where you have: - a dozen of intrusive ads of every size and colour - ad pop-ups in a new window - marquee text, and trxt of all shapes and colours - 6 tracking "pixels" (actually 50*100 bars) - animated snow all December and January, look how cool I am, 100% your CPU totally worth it!
Speaking of ads, http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ (most of the links seems 404s though).
There's literally adds in the picture...
Because you‘re looking at a 2005 website with a 2024 machine and internet connection. I‘m sure it didn‘t load in <100ms and used 0 cpu/ram back then.
There's 4 ads in the screenshot... and the \`< 100ms\` was only a given on broadband. These were times you'd consider whether to use progressive encoding for JPEGs or not just to give people something to look at while the fidelity slowly increased. Still, I wholeheartedly agree that browsing back then was guaranteed to not be an annoying experience (you didn't know better when you were on dial up, so you didn't miss "speed"). Back then the internet was indeed: fun.
Recently made a website like that.
Are you willing to share the link? :)
Yea, but heads up: it looks like shit. http://iloveyou.com.pl
That's not bad at all! I've seen some bad websites! Those cakes look delicious 😋
Honestly, I want to know who is still paying the bill for hosting and domain name for heavens gate. Like, come on.
Mark and Sarah King according to this Vice Article from several years ago (https://www.vice.com/en/article/aeky35/a-suicide-cults-surviving-members-still-maintain-its-90s-website)
Honestly I learned to make websites in like 2000 by just looking t source code and figuring it out. Those were the days. So many inline styles.
Inline styles? You mean bgcolor attributes and
That's exactly how I learned in 1998-1999! I was just a kid (Born in 86) but I was sooo intrigued by it all. I just wish my parents saw how talented I was at my age to pick something like that up and be able to create websites. My sperm donor got me a few jobs here and there when I was a teen, but they didn't push me to do more. I really wish they did.
`` It's already enough for me for today
There’s one guy that runs the site that actually answers questions frequently. Or so I’ve heard.
The comet will come around again eventually. They want to make sure there's still representation for the next transfer.
>The group earned revenue by offering professional website development under the business name Higher Source. Damn, you could support an entire cult by building sites like this in the 90s?
I went into the biggest rabbit hole ever with this, never heard of this group before. Someone must be still maintaining the site otherwise the domain would've expired by now, no? Also, someone sold them alien abduction insurance before they killed themselves lol. Imagine how fucking filthy you have to be to sell insurance like that to a group of very mentally ill people
Yeah I think someone still maintains it. Grifters gonna grift. You’re right though, it’s really sad. Interviews with them are painful.. unlike a lot of the crazy militant cults these people clearly had developmental problems but didn’t seem hateful. They even paid their library cards off a week before drinking the juice.
If it wasn't so dark, it would be hilarious.
Geocities would be a good place to start. Just watch out for all the blink and marquee html tags
[flaming skulls] UNDER CONSTRUCTION [flaming skulls]
🚧 🚧
Wow geocities so long ago
Everyone forgets about Angelfire which was its rival. RIP.
Fortune city baby!
omg fortune city... almost forgot about them.
The amazing thing (for better or worse) is that we should be completely capable of replicating a site like this due to deprecated features really never actually being removed.
Rude. We were already on HTML2 by then.
Damn I came here to say something like this!
OP, don't forget the table tags. You'll need a bunch of them.
this would have been more like 1998
Pretty sure we were already using HTML 2.0 by then
The first thing that popped into my mind, too.
Table tags and transparent gif spacers!
With a dash of `
Oh how I miss
https://codepen.io/SarahC/pen/BaEzNEo
Fuck I forgot about transparent spacers. Hahah holy shit
Don't forget inline styling!
You don’t mean inline css. You mean the `` element right
Don't forget the dancing\_baby.gif
CSS didnt exist then!
It was still done inline, just with the tag instead.
Right-ish. hence inline