The OLDEST websites EVER 👩‍💻 #technology #programmer #softwareengineer #coding #software #tech

[cee]

And they don't implement cookies 🙂

[Thunderwolf]

No websites existed prior to 1991, as the HTTP protocol didn't exist. The domain names existed, but they were used for older technologies like WAIS and Gopher, FTP etc. Just because the domain was registered in the 80s and there's an outdated webpage there now, doesn't mean that webpage has existed since the 80s.

[eve__________]

You forgot the Heaven’s Gate cult website from 1997 that’s still up. One member is still alive that maintains it

[dstinnettmusic]

My theory is that someone pays the server costs for these sites to make sure that new JavaScript, HTML and CSS engines are backwards compatible.

[thehowerd]

Honestly these need to be kept around just for the sheer historic/nostalgic value

[oltro]

“Over time it has evolved and this is what it looks like now”

👴🏻—>👴🏻

[ivanc]

On the old internet you’d just read and there was no feed. No doom-scrolling, no cookies, no algorithm. You came there with a mission, an interest and could genuinely explore and have that feeling of discovering and learning new things yourself. Shit wasn’t spoonfed to you by some corporate designed algorithm. Now the internet is no different than the TV. Minimal self decided interaction. Everything gone for the sake of convenience. People don’t realize that the difficulties it took to overcome was what made it fun in the first place. You had to figure it out. It wasn’t annoying in the way ads are. It was just something you had to try and find out how to operate. Finding obscure websites randomly and being the first one in your circle to know about them was a crazy pioneer type of feeling. Exploring links and reading up on stuff you never knew about, finding new interests and fascinations. That’s what really made the old internet what it was. Now we have apps. They all suck ass bc you don’t have any freedom. Everything is compartmentalized and there is no explorable overlap or common layers under the surface. No mystery. You always know what expects you and it’s trash

[milescarter]

Please can we go back? I hate it when I need a couple kilobytes of text information on a congested or spotty data link and the website is loading 100MB of mixed media before it will show me anything. The browser should honestly be allowed to block all scripts so I can grab just the important info I need

[CodingWithLewis]

When Dreamweaver is new technology, that’s how you know it’s old.

[xxczerxx]

I love the DIY quality of the old internet. It had a defined aesthetic and artistic/creative quality. Everything is homogenised by service providers now so the internet is just this massive corporate extension.

[ABW]

Those 80s "websites" were not on the www, and used something else but HTML.

[the-npmr]

Back when the Internet was worth exploring

[X-Gen-]

The net still feels like a recent thing.

[gustavocortico]

The old internet, so earnest and unfiltered. Felt like wilderness.

[bland]

As someone who loves sporks I can't believe I never knew about that website.

Sports are awesome for eating soup because you can scoop like normal but you can also stab specific pieces from the soup.

That's about the only time I use them but I love them for that purpose.

[rproctor]

I remember being 10 and installing a hit counter on my geocities website with animated pentagrams. Those were the good ol days.

[georgehelyar]

Fun fact, if you want to write html for emails you still need to use tables. In fact only a small subset of html 4 works at all in non-browser email clients like outlook. Think maybe it's because outlook uses IE? Wrong, it's because outlook uses word as it's html engine. Also things like Gmail remove style tags so all styles need to be inline, and pretty much every span needs to repeat all its font styles. I work at a company that processes 100m emails a day and this is my personal hell.

[emmafountain]

Honestly being a systems company with one of the oldest websites is one hell of a marketing move

[yellowjackboots]

Megadeath were the first musical artists to have an official website

[TheCerealHobbyist]

“CLAIMS to be the first website”. Tell me you don’t know internet history without telling me you don’t know about internet history.