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Yesterday I found dvd-r with backup of my 'startup' project sources (entire repository). It was around '07-08, I was 20+. Should give it a try, hope I can survive after that many facepalms.

Sidenote to newcomers: burn them dvds periodically! (oh, no, ultrabooks...)

True story, but I guess most stuff I did back in the days could be replicated in >1h haha

I think you have that sign flipped, you're probably looking for < - "less than".

yes :)

I remember how much work I put into my Geocities site. Many many months. I look at it on the wayback machine now, I can bang that entire site out in about 2 hours now.

Yes but for comparison you would need to code something in Go that's really complicated now. At the time being a Geocities user put you in an extremely rare cohort, which is of course why they originally sold for a billion bucks. Those of us who used it were extremely valuable users from a long term point of view. The first people on the internet who made their own websites AND linked all of the relevant stories everywhere else on the internet.

Trust me, you really don't.