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bertlewirth lemmy.world bertlewirth@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-09-15
#52 · Quote Reply

With a unsecured mysql database in the backend...

ahhh, that dastardly Bobby Tables!

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pHr34kY lemmy.world pHr34kY@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
#53 · Quote Reply

"You are visitor #36,738"

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PetteriPano lemmy.world PetteriPano@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-09-04
#54 · Quote Reply

With a unsecured mysql database in the backend...

My provider has a shared CGI script that added the post at a special tag in your HTML file.

..and because of poor permission handling everyone just had write permissions to these files for anyone to edit.

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PetteriPano lemmy.world PetteriPano@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-09-04
#55 · Quote Reply

My partner has some ideas… https://brosgetstoked.neocities.org/

I love it.

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omigibson aggregatet.org omigibson@aggregatet.org
Joined: 2024-04-04
#56 · Quote Reply

Tell him my favorite is the "visitor number one" part. I made one as well. https://sims2anin.neocities.org/

Cool! (Btw I can only get to your website if I remove the www from the link)

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red_tomato lemmy.world red_tomato@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-30
#57 · Quote Reply

"You are visitor #36,738"

Congratulations! You won!

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Technoworcester feddit.uk Technoworcester@feddit.uk
Joined: 2025-06-03
#58 · Quote Reply

👉CLICK HERE to E-MAIL👈 Email is the link, not the words click here and certainly not the entire thing.

You evil evil bastard.

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Theoriginalthon lemmy.world Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-18
#59 · Quote Reply

One page, one really long page, then the links to other pages have to go to under construction, or have 5 lines at most with no menu

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w3dd1e lemmy.zip W3dd1e@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-05
#60 · Quote Reply

WAIT! I have something for this!

A collection of Geocities sites. Pick a category and enjoy!

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herseycokguzelolacak lemmy.ml herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-06-17
#61 · Quote Reply

The pride of our nation, Internet Mahir: I kiss you!

https://web.archive.org/web/20020726141104/http://www.istanbul.tc/mahir/mahir/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahir_Çağrı

Dude was probably the first internet meme.

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RedSnt ♾️🦋♂️👓🖥️🐧 feddit.dk RedSnt@feddit.dk
Joined: 2023-06-18
#62 · Quote Reply

YESS frames

I do miss the simplicity of frames, but I totally get why

+ CSS replaced it.

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highrfrequenc lemmy.world highrfrequenc@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-14
#63 · Quote Reply

Autoplay a song and make the player controls tough to find

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Wolf314159 startrek.website Wolf314159@startrek.website
Joined: 2024-07-03
#64 · Quote Reply

Guest log. Web rings. “Secret” links like clicking on an unassuming graphic takes you to a secret page. Contact info that includes a fax machine phone #

"Secret Links", Like that one scene in that Sandra Bullock hacker movie, The Net.

https://triviahappy.com/articles/welcome-to-the-net-every-webpage-from-the-1995-movie-the-net

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Newhere lemmy.ml Newhere@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-08-04
#65 · Quote Reply

The pride of our nation, Internet Mahir: I kiss you! https://web.archive.org/web/20020726141104/http://www.istanbul.tc/mahir/mahir/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahir_Çağrı Dude was probably the first internet meme.

His page Seems like Fb of nowadays 🤣

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perviouslyiner lemmy.world perviouslyiner@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
#66 · Quote Reply

The BLINK tag

"Their tags shall blink until the end of days." - Book of Mozilla, 12:10

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dogzilla masto.deluma.biz dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz
Joined: 2024-04-04
#67 · Quote Reply

"Their tags shall blink until the end of days." - Book of Mozilla, 12:10

@perviouslyiner @asklemmy You try to tell kids today that we had a tag and they don’t believe you

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Captain Aggravated sh.itjust.works captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-20
#68 · Quote Reply

Gotta have a really tacky tiled background JPG.

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chmod755 feddit.org chmod755@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-03-03
#69 · Quote Reply

This guy's site: https://dannarchy.com/

Nice. Also: https://fulcrumserver.org/

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Leigh Weigh lemmy.world LeighWeighTacoma@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-08-08
#70 · Quote Reply

Cool! (Btw I can only get to your website if I remove the www from the link)

Good to know, thank you!

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jimerson lemmy.world jimerson@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#71 · Quote Reply

Animated dividers. Like the blood dripping bar or the pulsing neon one. Or both if you were me.

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Krudler lemmy.world Krudler@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-07
#72 · Quote Reply

You evil evil bastard.

I tried so many times to make sense of this reply LOL

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RizzRustbolt lemmy.world RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-06
#73 · Quote Reply

Webrings.

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Krudler lemmy.world Krudler@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-07
#74 · Quote Reply

1337 h4x0r 5p34k

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Captain Poofter lemmy.world FunnyUsername@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#75 · Quote Reply

guest book

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JustPlainDave lemmy.zip JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-09
#76 · Quote Reply

guest book

Also a guest counter.

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chmod755 feddit.org chmod755@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-03-03
#77 · Quote Reply

.wav background music starts playing and maybe you can turn it off. But maybe not.

Random fact: modern browsers don't seem to allow you to autoplay songs when you first visit a page, but it's possible to autoplay music when you navigate to another page on the same domain.

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CanadaPlus lemmy.sdf.org CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2023-06-12
#78 · (edited) Quote Reply

I do miss the simplicity of frames, but I totally get why + CSS replaced it.

Not knowing much about web design: is it just for more flexibility?

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CanadaPlus lemmy.sdf.org CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2023-06-12
#79 · (edited) Quote Reply

mystery-meat imagemap navigation

Oh man, it's been so long since I've seen an imagemap. Or at least one that's obviously an imagemap.

I'm kind of nostalgic for it now.

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RedSnt ♾️🦋♂️👓🖥️🐧 feddit.dk RedSnt@feddit.dk
Joined: 2023-06-18
#80 · Quote Reply

Not knowing much about web design: is it just for more flexibility?

I can't say for sure what the real reason was, but it was rather limiting. There's a reason why any website that wanted to look even a little bit different used flash, it was just easier to work with back then.

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GonzoAtBarstow lemmy.world GonzoAtBarstow@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-10-01
#81 · Quote Reply

Jeff K

https://www.somethingawful.com/hosted/jeffk/

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CanadaPlus lemmy.sdf.org CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2023-06-12
#82 · (edited) Quote Reply

I can't say for sure what the real reason was, but it was rather limiting. There's a reason why any website that wanted to look even a little bit different used flash, it was just easier to work with back then.

Hmm, okay.

Too much freedom to look however you want has been a bad thing, that can be said for sure. You let a random servers render whatever they want to the user, and you get the cancerous slop-clickbait sites that are everywhere now.

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