People need to bring back cheesy personal websites, banners and forum signatures…
There are still some corners online where you can find and make those, even if you don’t have the money, time or knowledge to host one yourself. For example:
Neocities (yes it’s like Geocities)
I am obsessed with those sites. It’s like the internet back in the day when I was a teen. I hope the social media and content creator sludge never overcomes it…
Shameless plug nx2.site (it has no ads, but also unfortunately no real content)
I like the different colors on load! I need to figure how to do this article links with the border and rounded corners
“Normal guy in 2000”
as someone who was into computers and in high school in 2000, that that was not normal.
even if yo mean normal computer literate person, not even then… Most people did not run their own servers, was it more common, yeah, but it wasn’t a given.
Things were only free if you were into piracy, everything cost money though without as much marketing, but then it wasn’t a huge market…
Also ads were everywhere and worse…
The weirdo content creators on Newgrounds and eBaum’s World were still better than 90% of content creators that exist now.
Hell, many of those same content creators are the 10% of the not-shit YouTube creators now
And that’s why I avoid YouTube like the plague. 10 minutes of BS for 2 minutes of content. Fuck google for tying adspace (video length) to search returns and suggested video priorities. More BS = more adspace = puts your garbage video at the top of the list.
