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Geo for Bootstrap - bootstrap theme

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This is second post in two days[1] and about 10 times[2] it was submitted before you. A few times on homepage.

I dont think it can be used for mainstream, just one time attraction, but from so much re-posting here I can be wrong

[1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5813596 [2] - https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=geo+bootst... and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5508061

I don't terribly mind the repost, I missed it the first time.

>> I dont think it can be used for mainstream

Certainly not, it looks awful of course (but isn't that the point?). I had a good laugh, and a quick trip down memory lane though.

The landing page is missing multiple embedded midi files though.

I disagree that it can't be used mainstream - I think I might take some of these components and use them in ironic anger - my favorite so far is the "Input with Error".

Or it's someone who noticed the same amount of postings that you did with great success and knew they'd get a good amount of rep points for it.

Despite how god damn awful this is by today's standards I'm still experiencing happy nostalgia fuelled memories having viewed your 'homepage'.

Now I'm not saying we should bring back geocities but I still have fond memories of finding fan sites and personal home pages hosted there.

The web seemed more homegrown back then in the 90s - which wasn't always a bad thing.

Nice job!

Back in 1997, I got connected to the internet. Thinking it was owned by a single company, the first time I ran across a site like this... made me want to develop websites. I thought to myself, Why did this internet company make suck a crappy webpage. Then I found out it was a personal home page, and anyone could do it... I then spent the next 5 years making awesome sites just like this, sans MC Hammer.

It does bring back some good nostalgia.

To be fair, back in 1997 the internet was "almost" owned by one company in a way: AOL ;)

I have a tough time taking a lot of those old designs as "crappy" though. I mean some of them were seizure inducing for sure, but there were a lot of pages that were very readable and above all else, very simple.

E.G. http://www.baddesigns.com/

Of course modern sites still carry the spirit in some way. http://stallman.org

Side note: A site sans MC Hammer is not awesome ;)

I remember looking up something for my dad in the mid nineties and the website had a cyan background with yellow text. You had to highlight it to make it legible. At that time before I knew much about HTML / CSS we were like creating content for the Internet must require some über skills if people find it so hard to even make text readable! How little we knew.

Skuemoprhism and Flat be damned! WE HAVE FINALLY ARRIVED AND IT IS GEO!

I'd of subbed the dancing MC hammers with rotating fire skulls, or one of the more common 90s animated gif standbys.

Also for fun: http://www.dolekemp96.org/main.htm

http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

http://www.internic.net/

And the site you're on right now ;)

I'm really sad I lost my first webpage, which I created in ~4th grade on Geocities (or was it AngelFire?)

I can't come to peace with the idea that modern browsers still support <marquee> and <blink>...

The ArchWiki actually has a very subtle use of the <blink> tag on its "Color Bash Prompt" page[1]. While it could easily be done with CSS3, I quite like its use there.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt#A_wel...

Being able to see a website the same way it was supposed to be 20 years ago is one of the best browser feature imho !

I actually turned on my speakers to see if there was any midi in the background. Kind of a let down ;)

LMAO. I had to do a double take and make sure the URL was correct and then I realized what was going on. Great work, you shot me right back to 1997.

Hey, it's responsive

that's better than many sites.

An awesome slice of my childhood! I may actually use the 'input with error' on a real site, that's just brilliant.

Is it just me or does it feel wrong seeing this on a fancy LCD? CRT anyone? :)

I can't believe someone devoted this much time to this...

So who's working on the animated gif icon set?

this made my day. it's so amazing in every way. divshot : good job for bringing the 90's back

This is hilarious!

reminded me of most of the myspace theme.

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