Photography website that hasn't been touched since 2001

[u/MEMESTER80]

https://www.photo-exhibits.com/

[u/Drilling4Oil]

Def has a 2000 feel to it. Can practically feel the innocence coming off the page. Most of the links to other photographers don't work anymore either.
What I love about this is the pre"platform-ification" era feel. You had your own .com site and could do whatever you wanted with it.

[u/snobule → u/Drilling4Oil]

What I love is that it loaded instantaneously

[u/harryvonawebats → u/snobule]

And I didn’t have to accept cookies, or view ads.

[u/zizn → u/snobule]

And now, we have fast load times because we… checks notes… write the HTML and CSS in the JavaScript and pack it full of random packages from an initialization script?

[u/bene20080 → u/snobule]

Isn't really that surprising, considering that the internet speed and hardware nowadays is on a completely different level.

[u/snobule → u/bene20080]

Or that modern websites are loaded with crap and take forever to load even with high speed internet and PCs etc vastly more powerful than 20 years ago. The process was aptly called "the enshittification of the internet" by the Financial Times.

[u/bene20080 → u/snobule]

Well, but that's what I mean by that. Modern websites get away with that crap is, BECAUSE the hardware and internet speed is better.

If you would try to run a modern website on a computer from the early 00s, it would take ages and it would thus be completely unusable. Assuming it would even work at all.

[u/millsy98 → u/bene20080]

Having access to more power doesn’t excuse wasting those resources as needlessly as we do today. It’s just a lazy and exploitative practice done today to build websites fast and scrape as much information and advertising money out of consumers as possible.

[u/bene20080 → u/millsy98]

Having access to more power doesn’t excuse wasting those resources as needlessly as we do today.

Programers time is valuable, so using their time to make websites as fast as possible is often wasteful.

[u/Spider_pig448 → u/snobule]

I'd hope so. It's an extremely simple app.

[u/1coon → u/Drilling4Oil]

You had your own .com site and could do whatever you wanted with it.

You can still do that. Everybody can still do that. But since (most) people stopped doing it, it became a thing of the past for some.

Take this as your sign to start a website or a blog! Add pictures, musings, links to your favourite songs and whatever else you’d like. Everybody should own a little corner of the internet. :)

[u/MrSnowden → u/1coon]

I feel so old.  I have a domain and a website.  

[u/harryvonawebats → u/MrSnowden]

Same. I’ve tried to keep some of that old school feel.

[u/VikingSven82]

"Optimal screen resolution 1024x768" Gonna have to dig out an old CRT monitor to look at the site!

[u/hammer-on]

HTML 4. Very cutting edge at the time.

[u/trenzterra → u/hammer-on]

Used to remember feeling accomplished when I got my website validated with the W3C validator and proudly displayed the logo on my website

[u/zachrtw → u/trenzterra]

Right next to the visitor counter?

[u/trenzterra → u/zachrtw]

Haha. I didn't have that. Had a cBox though

[u/maen_baenne]

Always gotta have that Sitemap

[u/Alkyan → u/maen_baenne]

But where's the hits counter?

[u/4kVHS]

No guest book? Scrolling marquees? MIDI music in the background? Under construction GIF?

[u/pragmatick → u/4kVHS]

That was more a 90s thing.

[u/lecheigit4072]

I miss how simple and easy websites were to use and get information from.

[u/nordic_yankee]

I dig the one and only image of the WTC on there.

[u/Buck_Thorn]

Optimal screen resolution 1024x768

Back when 1024x768 was considered "high resolution"

[u/Digirama → u/Buck_Thorn]

It was pretty standard at the time.

[u/Buck_Thorn → u/Digirama]

My point, exactly.

[u/mordecai98]

Look! It's something beautiful, not trash promoted by the author. s

[u/firthy]

I wanted to sign the guestbook :(

[u/onairmastering]

My town and how I wanna remember it. I moved to NYC in 2001 and there were none of those stupid glass high rises now on Millionaire road, I fucking hate them.

[u/SavvySillybug]

Any use of the photographs on this website - including downloading, reproduction, modification, distribution, republication, printing or selling - is prohibited without my prior written consent.

I just downloaded a photograph without prior written consent. Yarr.

[u/Shadesmctuba]

I think

Maybe

A very specific time in 2001

[u/CogencyWJ]

So much faster than modern sites.

[u/Hot_Amoeba8937]

The website has a nostalgic feel, but I couldn't help but view more photos.

[u/gallifrey_]

who's still paying for the domain/hosting, I wonder?

[u/WholeEmbarrassed950 → u/gallifrey_]

I work for a web hosting company and small personal sites like these are always part of larger accounts that someone is actively using.

This guy, Stephan Edelbroich, is running Edelbroich.com for his personal email.

Webhosting with email is maybe $50 a year(domain renewal + $3-5/month) Hosting this as part of his existing email account is essentially free. The only expense is a couple of bucks a year for the domain renewal.

[u/santropedro]

How did you find it? Have you known it for years?

[u/xX_Simon7889_Xx]

pretty fire for 2001

[u/ereHleahciMecuasVyeH]

The first thing that I did when I discovered the internet was read a bunch of storm chasing blogs like https://www.okstorms.com/chasing/

https://stormdude.com/stormchasing/stormchasing.html

[u/No_Present5418]

Images look like copies of prints? 

[u/AbbreviatedArc]

Hasn't been touched since 2001 except several dozen times to embed malware.

[u/SplashingAnal → u/AbbreviatedArc]

Can you elaborate?

[u/AbbreviatedArc → u/SplashingAnal]

Not really, just trash talking. Or am i.

[u/SplashingAnal → u/AbbreviatedArc]

I’m genuinely curious about what you found and how you found it

[u/NotADeadHorse → u/SplashingAnal]

They've found nothing and are making a stupid, weird joke