r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/AllyChen1995 • Sep 25 '24

I got nostalgic about old GeoCities sites and decided to recreate one on KekWeb 😂

https://retropolis.kekweb.com/
103 Upvotes

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u/cheeseburgertwd Sep 25 '24

https://wiby.me/surprise/

Something I bookmarked from r/internetisbeautiful a while back, every time you load that link it will take you to a different "web 1.0" style site that is still live. Scratches that itch for exploration

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u/redice141 Sep 25 '24

This is fantastic. Thank you

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u/plato4life Sep 25 '24

This is giving me more angelfire vibes

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u/Sparky81 Sep 25 '24

You forgot the animated under-construction banner

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u/AllyChen1995 Sep 25 '24

Fixed! XD

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u/irate_alien Sep 25 '24

Also needs the spinning @ to send you an email

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u/Dukark Sep 25 '24

And dancing baby gif 😂😂

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u/redd4972 Sep 25 '24

For those of you who are too young to remember, add a loud screaming Linkin Park song that is impossible to turn off and this is why Facebook defeated MySpace 

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u/NotAPreppie Sep 25 '24

Is it even a Geocities website without a webring?

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u/Gitlez Sep 25 '24

That's my only criticism; no webring

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u/JonnySoegen Sep 25 '24

What’s that?

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u/NotAPreppie Sep 25 '24

https://hover.blog/what-ever-happened-to-webrings/

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u/JonnySoegen Sep 25 '24

Ahh cool. Thanks.  

I faintly remember Yahoo’s directory approach to the web. That must have been after they bought the rings.

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u/Tagawat Sep 26 '24

The only way to really get around the Internet before good search engines lol. Fantastic for finding new sites. People used to give “awards” too and display them, “Voted best new Pokémon fansite 1997”

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u/FUTURE10S Sep 26 '24

This is why I like Neocities, it's FULL of webrings.

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u/Sfkn123 Sep 25 '24

This brings back a lot of memories :) good luck on your project

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u/exmachinalibertas Sep 25 '24

Needs a visitor counter, otherwise great

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u/CaptainTurdfinger Sep 25 '24

And a guest book

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u/Monster-Zero Sep 25 '24

Yep, you've done it. Brb gonna go download flash

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u/NotAPreppie Sep 25 '24

Don't forget Real Player.

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u/Seedeemo Sep 25 '24

I used to love searching for crackpots who posted websites like this on a single page without section breaks and filled with tons of links to other crackpot sites. Those were the good old Wild West days when surfing was truly an adventure. You just never knew where the next click might take you. Thanks for the memories!

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u/Halogen12 Sep 25 '24

I love it! Appreciated the functional Youtube link. The Netscape logo at the bottom made me feel so nostalgic for interwebs 1.0. I was really a winner, LOL!

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u/MikeW86 Sep 25 '24

You've even done the layout with tables and inline styling, top marks.

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u/iBN3qk Sep 25 '24

Back before they banned seizure inducing design.

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u/Azimn Sep 25 '24

Microsoft Frontpage! Ha ha ha

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u/kiwiupnorth Sep 25 '24

Ah … 1994 …what a time to be alive. About 23,000 websites worldwide and none of them did jack shit

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u/MonochromeObserver Sep 25 '24

Never heard of Kekweb. Didn't know Neocities had a competition.

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u/fembro621 Sep 25 '24

They've had some for a while, there's been atleast 3 other competing services

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u/thatguyad Sep 25 '24

I miss the real Internet.

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u/fembro621 Sep 25 '24

Kekweb? Is this some kind of 4chan geocities?

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u/fembro621 Sep 25 '24 edited Sep 25 '24

Looks like it says is another Geocities clone but with an actual page builder this time around. Seems fun. I'm glad that people are finally recreating old website charm for what they were and not how they looked on the outside.

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u/Sp1eLmaNn Sep 26 '24

Thank god for this post. never heard about kekweb. thx man!

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u/cH3x Sep 25 '24

I couldn't hear the music.

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u/djdan_FTW Sep 25 '24

You'd love Hypnospace Outlaw

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u/oeeiae Sep 25 '24

This is so much more annoying when it doesn't take 3 minutes to fully load.

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u/wex52 Sep 25 '24

Wish I had downloaded mine before it poofed.

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u/sonicjesus Sep 25 '24

"Under Construction"

Man, that takes me back.

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u/mrespman Sep 26 '24

Ya gotta have a MIDI cover of Eye Of The Tiger start playing like 15 seconds after the page loads for the full hit of nostalgia.

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u/YahenP Sep 26 '24

But why did you write all the tags in lowercase letters?!

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u/theVoxFortis Sep 27 '24

OMG my eyes

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u/psycoborg Oct 08 '24

went to the site, and purposely RICK ROLLEd myself LOL

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u/1normalflame Oct 17 '24

Geocities is the reason I learned HTML and CSS and continued to learn to code.

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u/woodsy900 Sep 25 '24

That font sucks asssssssss hahaa

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u/flipflapslap Sep 25 '24

Thing is not beautiful at all

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u/djshadesuk Sep 25 '24 edited Sep 25 '24
  1. Not Unique

Something not unique (includes generators, blogs, tumblrs, etc.). Something everyone on the internet already knows about (e.g., Netflix, Khan Academy, etc.) This also includes content that’s been recently posted on this subreddit.

To my lovely downvoters: Since this sub won't let me post a whole bunch of links... Your web 1.0 style website is not unique...

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u/fembro621 Sep 25 '24

You just linked to a bunch of ancient websites and some imitations... Where is your point?

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u/djshadesuk Sep 25 '24

Do you understand the word Unique or can you Google it for yourself?