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Acererak's AngelFire/GeoCities Nostalgia Thread
Do you miss the days when your Internet connection was slow, fragile and could be interrupted by a phone call? Do you miss it when the only reliable way to get around fandom sites were through links to other sites? Do you miss the days when any man (and sometimes a woman if you went on those New Age sites), from the sweatiest Godzilla fanboy to the most drug-addled conspiracy theorist, could own his own piece of the Internet? When Yahoo was ruler of the roost, Something Awful was in its infancy, and Tumblr was just a weird typo?
Long for that glorious, badly-formatted past no more! In this thread, we take a look at some AngelFire/GeoCities sites that I managed to dig up somehow.
Don't misunderstand me: this isn't a shitting thread. I'm not here to deride these sites. They were a valuable part of my first days on the Internet. Think of this as a celebration of a culture that soon grew into something much, much larger and forgot its roots. (Maybe for the better, sometimes.)
(Disclaimer: Yahoo is actually fucking horrible and I hate it.)
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-John V
3/26/01
still the best website on the internet.
even though it doesn't exist anymore.
it contained Mega Man series music tracks, in MIDI format. They could be downloaded individually. One of them autoplayed on the page; that was Gravity Beetle's theme from X3.
At the time, SPCs did not exist, and I couldn't otherwise listen to that beautiful music from Mega Man X3. Then I discovered that page. And I cherished that MIDI of Toxic Seahorse's theme so much.
It even led me to a MIDI rendition of the Rockman X4 intro theme (Japanese version), which turned out to be a J-pop song that I quite enjoyed.