BOOM! My head just exploded. I ran into the https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/ I personally owned a bunch of ridiculous urls.(they were free forever, then you had to pay a dollar for some guy to record it for you). My favorite was hydrogenbomb.com. I had the federal gov. technical instructions on how to build one. Yes, we were like that... nobody could touch us.

I just wet back to 1999...so many memories the fucking matrix came out I was working at mad catz for 11 bucks an hour as a designer. One of Electronics engineers acquired a CD of the matrix on a trip to china (yeah, if you wanna go to China and buy it and then come back). All the engineers(these guys were serious. this guy had like a 386 computer in his car and he built his own navigation system into his piece of shit car) it was mind blowing to us a the time.

Right around this time was when the first serious web designers came out and people started showing your skills websites. Isometric pixel people was a thing. Oh, David Carson and Raygun magazine drove the design movement almost all by himself. emigre fonts, Macromedia flash was amazing, High speed t-1 ad cable came out. We would've paid whatever they charge it didn't matter to get that Internet access to get off phone lines.

I was just graduated college in and 98 on my cable modem on a G4 sawtooth, rocking 250 MHz. I upgraded to 450mhz for 14 bucks.

Golden Age It was.. It was more art than function. I would visit a site and could not figure out how to use it. they were all puzzles . The sad part is the most complicated and interesting sites I ever saw went up and then got taken down for whatever. What's your demos? Whatever you're trying to demo you moved on to the next thing.... no one thought it would be some sort of history. I did find my PayPal mastercard from 2000 today. premier business. ohlala.

there was no regulation, here was no censorship, the digital gatekeepers kept it to the people who are online were creating and not just making pictures of tits. It was still uninteresting to the average person. They would have the same reaction if you showed them a book. It made a wonderful place. I can't even explain it to you. Zero fear. zero concern.

Pay attention to the small people you don't know they were the rad ones; K10K, surf station, linkdup, isometric pixelpeople, everything was focused on the pixel. the building block of everything. // the big companies came in and copied them. fuck those guys.

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/golden-age-of-web-design/page/4?ordr=nyear

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history

All hail Design is kinky

I still sometimes look up the old URLs to see if they're there they never are, but I still do...

life..