★ ☆ Pixel-Perfect Paradise ☆ ★

Hello World!

The World Wide Web is a place where creativity flourishes, where ideas are spread, and where community is cultivated. People’s innate desire to establish meaningful connections with one another has naturally extended itself into the digital realm, and the Internet, (particularly, the Web,) is the product of that. Since its inception, the Web has greatly changed from an expressive, unique, and optimistic place to a bland, centralized, and consumerist landscape. This earlier period of time, known as the Old Web or Web 1.0, is rightfully missed by those who were there to experience it, and this way of doing things deserves better than to be relegated to faded memories; it deserves to be immortalized, and furthermore, to be rebuilt. This site is dedicated to both showcasing the Web of the past and spotlighting the pathways to the web’s future. On it, one will find sections pertaining to:

  1. a timeline of landmark ‘internet’ events,
  2. a compendium of commonly misused or misunderstood terms,
  3. a comparitive analysis of modern websites and their early counterparts,
  4. a showcase of Old Web archival attempts,
  5. a selection of notable still-running Web 1.0 remnants, and
  6. a conclusion looking onward.
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A Little About Me

Hi, my name's Griffin, and I was born and raised in Virginia. Ever since I can remember, I've always taken an interest to 1990s youth culture: Gameboys, Tamagotchis, Furbies, skating, computers, et cetera. I wanted to make this site to pay homage to the web culture of the '90s and early 2000s, before the highly-interactive social media sites of today gained popularity.

While some know the web before social media to be called the 'read only' web, I'd argue that there was actually a lot of interactivity in websites at this time. There was just a barrier to entry, and that was you had to actually learn HTML. Not entirely hard, even then before there were online tutorials for everything, but still it was a commitment. The site you're reading from right now is the product of that sort of commitment, serving as a proof of concept that it can be done WITHOUT any preexisting technological prowess. You just have to get out there and do it.