Chris Higgins
The Geocities-izer
by Chris Higgins - April 27, 2010 - 3:06 PM

Remember 1996 — or, as I call it — the golden age of websites? In those days animated GIFs reigned, MIDI soundtracks spiced up pages, and you actually cared what Geocities “neighborhood” your site was in. Fourteen years later, Geocities is dead, animated GIFs have been replaced with Flash, and MIDI soundtracks…well, those are still awesome. If you yearn for a taste of the mid-90′s web, try The Geocities-izer, a site that can “make any web page look like it was made by 13-year-old in 1996.” Above we see what twitter.com looks like when run through the Geocities-izer. Try out your favorite sites and see what happens!

WARNING: The Geocities-izer adds music to pages! If you’re at work, turn off your speakers. Or turn ‘em up, if you want to enjoy a smooth hit from the mid-90′s.

(Via Waxy.org.)

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Comments (9)

  1. link doesn’t work :-(

    posted by where is carmen san diego on 4-27-2010 at 3:24 pm

  2. Hrmm, the link is working for me but is real slow. Perhaps we’re crushing their server. :)

    posted by Chris Higgins on 4-27-2010 at 3:40 pm

  3. maybe it’s suppose to be slow as everything was in 1996!

    posted by Katie Rose on 4-27-2010 at 4:17 pm

  4. Wow, that’s even better than I imagined! It’s crashed!

    That brings back memories.

    posted by Scotty A on 4-27-2010 at 5:06 pm

  5. All that Comic Sans just made me throw up in my mouth a little.

    posted by catherine ann on 4-27-2010 at 5:31 pm

  6. I feel right at home since I am using a computer from 1998. It’s the same one I purchased through my college before my first semester. I think we were the first class to be required to own a computer. Next class got free laptops, those spoiled brats. Every time it turns on, I consider it a minor miracle. My monitor recently gave out (R.I.P. June 1998 – March 2010) and I know the computer’s days are numbered.

    posted by Kedar on 4-27-2010 at 5:50 pm

  7. Try it with mental floss. What a hoot!

    posted by Miss Cellania on 4-27-2010 at 8:59 pm

  8. Hey, *I* was 13 years old in 1996!

    But I didn’t get my first PC until 1997 or begin Web programming until a year or two after that.

    Still, man, I remember…

    posted by Jon H. on 4-29-2010 at 11:23 am

  9. it didn’t add any sound at all… :(

    posted by Mama9cats on 4-29-2010 at 12:46 pm

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