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Seriously, the Wayback Machine is awesome. Just last week I used it to find a website I made twelve years ago at the ripe age of 10. If there are any maintainers/developers reading this, thank you.

The fact that they were able to preserve a masterpiece like this means a lot to me: http://web.archive.org/web/20010124071800/http://expage.com/...

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Agreed. Back in '96 I was a teenager who spent all his free time running a modest gaming fan website [1]. I dropped it when I went to college a year later, but its nice to know all that hard work will forever be memorialized within the wayback machine. It helps me remember why I became a software engineer in the first place. Thanks for that.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/19970414022225/http://www.scorche...

> Best viewed in 800x600 resolution.

that's great ;-)

i remember questioning whether it was ok to drop 8x6 support. the golden days.

Oh, this was back when we were tired of supporting 640x480, hence the message of "best viewed on 800x600" :)

Personally, my favorite is how NT4 and 2000 Terminal Servers were limited to 8-bit color depth (without Citrix, of course).

Do you still own that domain? It's fantastic.

Thanks! Sadly, I brought on a volunteer who bought the domain in his name. Not a very smart idea in retrospect... but I was young, and not many people understood the value of a good domain name back in 1996 ;-)

We were up to 20k daily uniques when I quit (not bad for 1997). I wrote the forum & related software myself in perl, which was an amazing learning experience.

Clicked on Today's comics and felt very nostalgic when I saw this http://web.archive.org/liveweb/http://expage.com/cgibin/free...

> The fact that they were able to preserve a masterpiece like this means a lot to me

That's exactly the kind of website they should be preserving! The future people will be glad that we kept some ephemera around.

And I love that website - just so blue; and comic sans not used ironically; and animated gifs; and the guestbook.

I find it hilarious that you animated the B flipping between italics and normal

You forgot a DOCTYPE.

Obviously I live on the wild side.

when i was a kid using my parents AOL connection Homestead was blocked by the default AOL parental controls. so i installed a keylogger so i could sneak onto my dad's screen name and make websites when he went to work. in retrospect i probably could have just asked him to unblock homestead so i can make websites.

i realize this is only tangentially related, but your page compelled me to share. :)

Ahhh! Homestead. Thank you for reminding me. I need to check there for archives, too!

Your animated gifs are awesome.

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