Working on a website for my sister. I got some grainy gifs and a visitor counter. What else?
Webrings.
1337 h4x0r 5p34k
guest book
Animated dividers. Like the blood dripping bar or the pulsing neon one. Or both if you were me.
Autoplay a song and make the player controls tough to find
Two paragraphs talking about how great you feel about finally getting on the World Wide Web. Include as many typos as possible.
A dozen links to other websites (make sure at most only 2 of them actually work).
Excessive use of the BLINK tag in titles.
Copy and paste some random Ascii art but make sure not to use the right font so nothing aligns properly.
Real Audio music files.
For me it’s webrings. And, they’re back. I’m in a hurry so fame l can’t research for you, but, they exist.
Lot of people on neocities.org use them!
I love that who gets added to the webring is exclusively in competence of the existing members, and it’s just a question of convincing any one of the existing members to link to your site. It’s a mathematical property of their structure and it must lead to some interesting power dynamics.
From what I’d read about it, search engines have become kinda shit, focusing on SEO and paid sponsored results than actually showing what someone searched for, so some small websites form webrings to help people find similar websites/interests while they’re on their site. I think it’s pretty cute/fun.
Guest log.
Web rings.
“Secret” links like clicking on an unassuming graphic takes you to a secret page.
Contact info that includes a fax machine phone #
👉CLICK HERE to E-MAIL👈
Email is the link, not the words click here and certainly not the entire thing.
“You are visitor #36,738”
Congratulations! You won!
guest book
With a unsecured mysql database in the backend…
ahhh, that dastardly Bobby Tables!
My provider has a shared CGI script that added the post at a special tag in your HTML file.
…and because of poor permission handling everyone just had write permissions to these files for anyone to edit.
The pride of our nation, Internet Mahir: I kiss you!
https://web.archive.org/web/20020726141104/http://www.istanbul.tc/mahir/mahir/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahir_Çağrı
Dude was probably the first internet meme.
His page Seems like Fb of nowadays 🤣
A CGI web-counter.
Good luck though, I found one page talking about them, it had 11 dead links to web counter pages.
One page, one really long page, then the links to other pages have to go to under construction, or have 5 lines at most with no menu
Repeating background texture that makes the text a bit hard to read. Begging visitors to sign the guestbook. ‘Under construction’ gif for pages that aren’t done yet. Autoplay midi (probably not possible nowadays).
Tiled backgrounds but not repeating pattern
