A brisk, nostalgic look at how GeoCities and Angelfire shaped the early personal web. This comparative analysis traces origins, features, culture, decline, and lasting influence - and explains why messy, pixelated homepages mattered more than we thought.
Internet Explorer wasn't just a browser - it was a time machine. Its quirks, dominance, and backward-compatibility turned the early web into a living museum of glittery homepages, Flash experiments, and stubborn old code.
A nostalgic walk through Lycos's cluttered, colorful homepage that asks a surprising question: what of the 90s web should we preserve, and what should we leave in the era of dial‑up? This post teases out practical UX lessons from an era that thought animated GIFs were a legitimate branding strategy.