Whatever happened to the superstars of the dot com boom?

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 4 March, 2010 to the web subset

Take a trip back in time to the hey-day of the dot com boom, while also finding out what became of all the web 1.0 superstars.

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Geocities may be gone but you still listen to the old MIDI files

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 17 November, 2009 to the web subset

Ten of the most widely used MIDI-format music files from (pre Yahoo era) Geocities websites, courtesy of Jason Scott who had been archiving the now deleted Geocities sites this year.

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I visit Geocities websites for the content, not the design

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 5 November, 2009 to the web subset

A sample of nine Geocities webpages which were among the one million archived before Yahoo closed down the old web communities.
Before iPods and Y2K, GeoCities was a quantum leap: The average person could create a web site for free, no questions asked. People took the opportunity and ran with it, building millions of pages [...]

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Under construction, a blast from the past is coming soon!

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 14 October, 2009 to the web subset

I’m pleased to say none of these once all too familiar images (may take a minute or two to load) ever graced any of my websites back in the day.

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