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-REDDIT-USERNAME- t1_iu9hjx7 wrote

It's stupid how much I miss this era of the world wide web. Everything was fun and new.

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Indie_Undies t1_iu9o4mh wrote

I recommend you to check out sites hosted in neocities. Most people there try to replicate the retro feeling.

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kunegard t1_iuacy3d wrote

Sadly, most of them have just like 2-3 pages including 'About me' and 'Contact', so you read at most 300 words on a whole website : /

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Ripcord t1_iubisjo wrote

And all of them have "welcome to my homepage!" And "don't forget to sign my guestbook!". And I bet a few have "have you considered changing long distance carriers to MCI?"

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ouralarmclock t1_iubu3z2 wrote

“This website is meant to be viewed in [Internet Explorer]”

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turd_boy t1_iud22om wrote

Who has "Internet Explorer"? Everyone has AOL bruh, its the future...

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bmwiedemann t1_iubyrkv wrote

Do they also have "under construction" notices like in the good old days?

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Indie_Undies t1_iuduslj wrote

I guarantee you that you will stumble upon several of those.

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dirtynj t1_iua7fjv wrote

Before ads ruined the web.

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MC_Fap_Commander t1_iuandf2 wrote

That's certainly true, but the arrival of real world divisions also hurt the online space.

At that time, the internet was the tribe. Certainly some exceptions, but there was a general sense of commonality online back then. We were all still sort of the weirdos who made the place go.

As the internet became a widely used corporate mass media space, it seemed to lead to the hostility, acrimony, and division we see in the "real world." I wonder sometimes if the need for market segmentation was pushed online for purposes of creating advertising demographics.

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deathlydope t1_iuav8yn wrote

> As the internet became a widely used corporate mass media space, it seemed to lead to the hostility, acrimony, and division we see in the "real world." I wonder sometimes if the need for market segmentation was pushed online for purposes of creating advertising demographics.

Maybe, but it's just as likely an inherent side-effect of the increase in population online.

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MC_Fap_Commander t1_iuaw581 wrote

It probably makes sense. Early internet was not user friendly or cheap so I think there was a bit of a selection bias in who used it. When online access was made as easy as tapping a phone button, a very different sort of population arrived online. They brought their identity biases with them. For a lot of us in the 90's, the internet was our identity.

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BeatlesTypeBeat t1_iub97p9 wrote

No one claims to be a netizen anymore.

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PandaMoveCtor t1_iuarh4v wrote

This was the era of a thousand non-closeable pop ups and flashing banners. I would much rather a targeted ad than that shit.

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dirtynj t1_iub407f wrote

At least I got free dialup internet with NetZero for have that banner

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RogueDevlin t1_iucd68v wrote

I also hate the "you cannot see this in your region"...

The internet was supposed to be a borderless space...

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2_Spicy_2_Impeach t1_iu9qq98 wrote

It was a fun time. I remember using Angelfire, Xoom, and Hypermart for hosting.

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soursourkarma t1_iu9vftz wrote

Gotta spread your website across several hosting sites because they only gave a few mb of storage each. 🙂

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2_Spicy_2_Impeach t1_iu9wljz wrote

In my younger/asshole years, I used to write toolkits used for nefarious purposes and those files add up. :)

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greenappletree t1_iuaqtt7 wrote

Oh angel fire brings back memory- Infoseek or Alta vista to find it

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ccaccus t1_iua0z9d wrote

Tripod was my host of choice... until I got a friend who let me have a subdomain on his site!

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shinigamiscall t1_iua32bw wrote

The only thing I don't miss from back then is how easy it was to get viruses/malware. These days you have to actively get that stuff on your device. (Or be an idiot)

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return2ozma t1_iuakm9w wrote

I remember discovering the BLINK tag in HTML. Oh man...

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Simicrop t1_iuavbiw wrote

Takes me back to my four person Starcraft clan that needed our own geocities website.

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why_rob_y t1_iuazy5f wrote

This guy's page loads way too fast, though.

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c0ld_a5_1ce t1_iuc4w4v wrote

RIP homestead.com 🥹 It was so easy to make so many fun, funky late 90s websites

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ccaccus t1_iu9fo6d wrote

The one nice thing about every site basically looking like that was everyone who had used a graphical word processor could think, "I could make that!"

Now, I offer my fifth graders the chance to make a website for a project and they all feel like it's inferior.

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RedtheGamer100 t1_iu9nixd wrote

Why is an elementary school teacher on reddit?

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ccaccus t1_iu9okq8 wrote

Never thought I'd run into one of my own students here!

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RedtheGamer100 t1_iu9p7z1 wrote

LOL, not bad.

Do you teach web design?

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ccaccus t1_iu9psar wrote

Nope. 5th grade Reading/Language Arts.

After some of the books we read, students can choose from a bunch of different projects from regular book reports or dioramas to making video games, websites, and movies.

I mean, I'm more experienced with tech than some other teachers. I've made some websites with HTML/CSS/PHP/SQL, coded a few things with C++ and JavaScript, dabbled in Unity, and have a Twitch, so I can help my students a lot and am comfortable offering those projects as options.

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RedtheGamer100 t1_iu9tand wrote

Can you teach me?

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On3_BadAssassin t1_iuakv2w wrote

I have nipples, Greg. Can you milk me?

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RedtheGamer100 t1_iuay3lh wrote

Reported

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On3_BadAssassin t1_iuaygw4 wrote

I’m impressed.

I legitimately can’t tell if you’re a really bad troll or a really good moron.

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RedtheGamer100 t1_iuaylqa wrote

Another report, thank you.

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On3_BadAssassin t1_iub180n wrote

Good!

That’ll teach me.

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RedtheGamer100 t1_iub1lpo wrote

I hope so

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Vanillabean73 t1_iubmqor wrote

Do you go tell mommy when someone says something mean to you on the bus?

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RedtheGamer100 t1_iubnspj wrote

Please, enough hate. I'm tired of it.

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Ripcord t1_iubuy8u wrote

If you're an unapologetic shit, people might not be nice about it. It's 100% on you, not others.

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RedtheGamer100 t1_iubv7lq wrote

Sorry man, was on a swing for a second. I’m back on the uppity 🤪

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jhaake t1_iualipi wrote

What kind of stupid question is that?

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jlanger23 t1_iuauamp wrote

Probably a kid. My students tend to think reddit is a teen thing and seem surprised that I have it. I've been on reddit since they were little kids ha.

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RedtheGamer100 t1_iuay2un wrote

Lol nope.

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Legionofdoom t1_iuau98q wrote

Reddit has been around, and I've been on it, longer than the students we teach...

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ChipMunkley t1_iu9bd11 wrote

The 90s were good times :)

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fsociety091786 t1_iuaeead wrote

People will say you’re being too nostalgic but I too pine for the days when the internet was an amazing invention with unlimited possibilities instead of a lingering threat to democracy, and young middle class people had a good life and hope for the future.

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MC_Fap_Commander t1_iuao1ru wrote

The collective sigh from the world as we appeared to move away from the threat of nuclear annihilation to the chance of a cooperative global system was pretty dope.

Autumn of 2001 to the headlines of today pretty much took away that delusion.

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flipflapslap t1_iu9fuxn wrote

Yea they were. I used to go to the library, cuz they had good internet, and make webpages about bands I liked. What a time to be alive

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ChipMunkley t1_iu9oda9 wrote

I remember LAN parties where a bunch of us guys stayed after school and played Command and Conquer or Warcraft II.

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bsylent t1_iuabqn8 wrote

Oh man, those command and conquer sessions were the best!

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IllyrioMoParties t1_iu9k078 wrote

>filled with animations and pictures
>still loads faster than reddit
how did they do it

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Asyncrosaurus t1_iua1b1i wrote

>how did they do it

Well text and low-res images are very quick to load. They may or may not even be using a database, meaning the loadtime could be entirely on transmission.

Then look at reddits infrastructure. It's a large system with many active componets being engaged with each pageload, built to scale to millions of active users, not for a single pageload score. For such a simple site ("new" Reddits bloated front-end monstrosity notwithstanding), Reddit is deceptively complex behind the scenes.

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rgthree OP t1_iuagxyn wrote

It’s a custom Python CLI that scrapes movie data and generates a static JSON file with the data. Then another Python file that generates all the static HTML files. Some GIFs, CSS, and JS for interactivity. All static and hosted off an old MacBook behind Cloudflare CDN for fast delivery.

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ditthrowaway999 t1_iubgq14 wrote

Yep, my first thought was noticing how lightning fast this page loaded. I am being 100% truthful when I say I actually, truly, unironically prefer this older "uglier" style of web design over the slick-looking but disgustingly bloated sites of today.

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IllyrioMoParties t1_iuciera wrote

Yes, someone else posted all these technical reasons why normal websites load slow but that's besides the point, isn't it? None of the shit that slows websites down is being requested by users, we just want whatever information we're after

"Check it out guys the website takes forever to load but at least we can better spy on you"

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shackles_of_capital t1_iucm391 wrote

It's nothing to do with tracking - that part's actually very quick.

The sluggishness comes from the use of tons of JS, and huge DOM trees.

The JS is there to make the site interactive. Do you want the entire page to reload whenever you post a comment? No? Then you need some JS to make a post request to the server, add the comment to a database, get back an all ok response, and then retrieve that comment to show it to you. Sites with more interactivity will be slower to load, in general.

But that can be mitigated by making the site an SPA, which means a heavier first load, but the entire rest of the time you spend on the site (on the same browser tab), you won't have to load a full new page whenever you go to another part of the site. The JS will reconfigure the page for you. Has many other benefits as well, like making authoring huge, extremely complicated sites a lot easier, faster, and easier to debug.

Users don't temd to have the first clue what goes into making a website. In 2022 web dev is crazily complex, the requirements are just so much higher than they were 20 years ago.

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IllyrioMoParties t1_iucrg6t wrote

Ironically, loading this page strained my CPU so much I had to restart. I assume you inserted secret browser-killing code into your comment? Well played.

Anyway, my point is that just because it's complicated doesn't mean it's not stupid. You've got a bunch of people telling you they don't care for all the modern fancy shit, they just want websites to load fast and convey information. The response of a professional computer programmer - I'm guessing - shouldn't be, "Silence, peasant, the features you didn't ask for are straining our brains!"

Like, who really cares if you have to refresh a page to see new comments? You still have to do that here (except with your own comments), you still have to do that on 4chan, and these are some of the most popular sites on the internet.

Also, I don't know much about programming but I bet most of the code on any website is trying to unfuck something caused by previous untalented programmers. I'm glad Elon is feeding them all to his tigers

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LudwigTheAccursed_ t1_iueb5dw wrote

Yeah i just want more sites to be like this one. You can keep all the excuses why it can’t because it can. Some sites need to be dynamic of course but many more could be simple like this one.

I wasn’t referring to u making excuses btw-

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turd_boy t1_iud293p wrote

Faster than reddit? It took 5 minutes to load a shitty jpeg of a boob.

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panspal t1_iu9sdt6 wrote

I wanted to check it out but that spooky skeleton music scared me off. I'll try later when I'm feeling more brave.

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Keatzuu t1_iu9intu wrote

This could really use a no-right-click script.

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heapsp t1_iuabdi7 wrote

Ahh I remember those. Where you could just left click then right click to bypass lol

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crush2920 t1_iu9ff91 wrote

I love it, and looks good on mobile too!

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newtbob t1_iuawl1z wrote

Tsk. Forgot the "Under Construction" sign with the stick figure shovel guy.

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rgthree OP t1_iuazdwe wrote

Ah, I used a classic 88x31 “caution under construction” banner next to the “works best on browsers” and “best viewed with hi-colors” banners.

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wharsmetoothpicson t1_iua8lfa wrote

My friends and I made a stupid geocities site that had no purpose other than to make each other laugh. It was the most random collection of stuff but hanging around in the forums was one of the most fun times ever. Miss the optimism of that early internet.

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bsylent t1_iuabkyy wrote

Wow, I'm having legitimate flashbacks to the first websites I crafted for no reason whatsoever back in the 90s. Also, excellent list!

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MuffinMatrix t1_iua26oa wrote

Best part of this... it loads instantly. Not even google.com can do that

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Danonbass86 t1_iuarkot wrote

Shit man… I made a fan page for Mega Man on geocities when I was like 9 just because I COULD. So many memories 🥹

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and123w t1_iua8f44 wrote

Damn, this just hit me right in the feels.

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paintedweirdo t1_iuaimvj wrote

I'm a sucker for this kind of thing. So much nostalgia for the little moment in time. I made my own little cruddy page and had music on it. I miss this time period but then again I had dial up and was a super soft cringy teen. Oh fuck it I love it.

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jperezny t1_iuau6x1 wrote

When I was teaching HTML classes back in the day... this was the crap that the cool, smart kids in class would come up with. When I gave them an A+ they would party like it was 1999!

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NedThomas t1_iuaugue wrote

Website didn’t take 10+ minutes to load and I experienced 0 seizures. Immersion ruined.

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soursourkarma t1_iu9vy4v wrote

They should join a webring to get more visitors

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possibleprophet t1_iu9yx5p wrote

Need more of this kind of thing. Then they can make a webring.

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Clarrisani t1_iub2euk wrote

It needs one of those little things that follow the cursor around.

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LudwigTheAccursed_ t1_iu9pwo1 wrote

Damn nice job! Looks incredible on mobile too. Wasn’t reallya thing back then. Great work.

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simplethingsoflife t1_iuacfcp wrote

Sorry, but that table needs to be a fixed width html table that looks terrible on mobile for this to be believable.

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Sinicalkush t1_iu9mdyn wrote

No Monster Squad??? This list is ruined.

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bsylent t1_iuabt38 wrote

I like the list, but yeah that's a glaring omission

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Sinicalkush t1_iuaca3h wrote

yeah the list is fine, I was just being facetious lol. But The Monster Squad does deserve a spot on here.

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victorsueiro t1_iua877k wrote

This is wonderful, I made almost the same thing but with Bootstrap and Nic Cage movies

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imredheaded t1_iub7joz wrote

I'd say early 2000's. In the 90's that 211KB site would've taken like 30 seconds to load

/end stupid nitpick

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furrycodertrash t1_iub88jc wrote

Please tell me this uses tables. I want to believe…

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shoojx t1_iubozww wrote

gifs and midis oh yah

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ivanebeoulve t1_iubuqqm wrote

bro open up a guestbook i use smartgb.com its not ideal but no coding needed

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thanbini t1_iucynib wrote

What Webrings is it part of?

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djd1985 t1_iu9xmd7 wrote

🥲 it’s beautiful

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LaserZeppelin t1_iuae8rd wrote

Oh man this reminds me of the Halloween does we would visit in 3rd grade computer class.

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OJTang t1_iual8e7 wrote

Needs a mobile version

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Pkittens t1_iubjwyh wrote

Were websites really centered like that? I'd assume them all to assume certain resolutions and aligning stuff according to that :D

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ind3pend0nt t1_iubwtso wrote

It’s a responsive page though.

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veotrade t1_iucagox wrote

5/10, no “buttons” leading to affiliate pages.

I had one leading to my Neopets shop, and one to my favorite scifi Browser Game, PlayCybots.

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wildinthewild t1_iucl0o6 wrote

Love it!!! Where’s the guestbook and website visitor counter? I used to make these websites all the time, particularly Harry Potter hogwarts RPGs. Lol

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Haquestions4 t1_iucpt1c wrote

Great idea! Is it possible to add metacritics user rating?

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avetisyan818 t1_iuijg9g wrote

This hits hard. I can’t help but feel Halloween just doesn’t hit the same. Maybe is the nostalgic 90s kid in me

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OceanSlim t1_iu9vwg9 wrote

Made with vscode html 5. Love to see it

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PRSArchon t1_iuadrn8 wrote

“The Others” on maybe? That movie is the shit

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