Comments on: If You Had a Website in 1998…

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:38:18 +0000

Wow, what a blast from the past.

This email took me back to the days of learning html and building the first web pages, to learning C++, Cobol and Javascript and more.

I also remembered the sites I was building back then and was able to look them up. Much to my surprise, one of them (freebie site on tripod.com was still there!! LOL!http://www.members.tripod.com/accardolucia/root/index.html
The site was a compilation of my friends, family, dating my husband – so pics of us on vacation, etc. I had also created a page updating people on my pregnancy – my daughter was born in June 1999. I posted pics of my wedding, etc. Talk about laborious effort to share some photos and information with our friends, nowadays, facebook and twitter do all of that for us.

And yes, I used Front Page as well!! If you’re from NY or Connecticut – you’ve probably heard of Metro North Railroad – I was part of the web team… my job was pretty much creating and maintaining all parts of the web site… I hadn’t looked back in years, but did so just now and sure enough, the old ‘archive’ pages are still up there somewhere!! Take a look…
http://web.archive.org/web/20000821225738/www.mnr.org/mnr/index.html

Lisa, thanks for the trip down memory lane. You’ve done a fine job with your work and expertise over the years. I too work from home and love when other women entrepreneurs become successful!! You are fabulous!!!

By: Aeja

Aeja — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:01:28 +0000

I had made website back in 1997 or 1998 at fortunecity. I was just learning HTML and was so eager to make sites…it was easy everything back then and simple. You made me remember the pure enjoyment of learning new subjects. Thank you, Lisa.
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By: Frank Carr

Frank Carr — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:41:29 +0000

I came to your site looking for examples of circa 1998 websites and got treated to a trip down Internet memory lane. Fun stuff.

I wish I had bought some of those $30 domains back then because today they would be worth thousands. Then again, I could have a domain as worth as much as my WebVan stock certificates.

Believe it or not, there’s still a demand for websites created with FrontPage. I guess a lot of people got used to it and still make HTML pages complete with ugly tables. But, I guess enough people put it down so they had to change the name to Expressions.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:41:02 +0000

Reading this post brings back sweet memories of surfing the web in 1996-98! Back then I did all my Internet searches through Yahoo and Hotbot, plus the occasional search through Excite. Most of these searches were done at the local library’s Internet kiosk, where I would get kicked offline every few minutes through the dial-up connection. ICQ and AOL IM were the top instant messengers of the time and were nowhere near what IM clients are now. Also in 1998-99, I had my websites hosted on GeoCities and AOL, which only had a 3-5 MB storage limit. It’s definitely far easier to make a website now than it was back then, although they were much easier to navigate and load without all the graphics websites have now.

Oh and a belated congrats on the 10th anniversary! Here’s to your continuing success and all the best!:D

By: shawn

shawn — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:46:28 +0000

I remember using an html editor called hotdog in 1995. i was still in highschool at that point. It has changed alot since then…

By: Linn

Linn — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:36:20 +0000

ahah.. hey, u and I may have used the same hosting that time LOL.
yes, i bought a couple of domain names in 97 and $35 was the price at network solutions. hotbot was my favorite search engine..

And I never had FFA links setup on my page and I get like 5GB traffic a month and I was so happy, but can’t figure out how to monetize from it LOL..

and I used coffecup html that time.. and of course, tripod and geocities are the two sites that comes to mind before I own my own domain

it brings back alot of memory, thanks for sharing

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:26:17 +0000

Hehehehe. I’m kind of glad I didn’t start then, but…. man. You can get a great presence after all that time. You’ve done fantastic though, obviously.

I didn’t even realize that about the hosting though. O.O Wow.

By: websitebabblevisitor

websitebabblevisitor — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:31:23 +0000

hi lisa !

oh my god ! !

i was using netscape back then to make free web sites !
and i think geocities too, actually geocities hasnt changed much since back then ! oh my god !

i mainly remember netscape back then, how interesting it was.

and oh, no youtube too ! !

By: Nora

Nora — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:42:37 +0000

I love this post! I was very young back then and was only allowed 30 minutes online every week. I would use Frontpage all the time without publishing any sites (my mom still uses the old version to build her websites). I really like browsing through sites at the time using Archive.org, it’s funny how plain websites were back then.

By: R.J.

R.J. — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:27:52 +0000

Wow! You actually were at one time into link farms? BTW, thanks for showing what they are on your forum. Everybody condemns these Splinks(spamy links). But I was like “what are they?” Now I know their “Top Sites”.:)