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This strip made me nostalgic for my first website.

Oh jesus, me too. Using only the primary colors, I created something physically painful to look at.

I'm not sure if I was that advanced, but I made some terrible ones. It took me a long time to figure out that just because I could put something after <BODY BACKGROUND=, it didn't mean that I should.

But hey, at least I never used <BLINK> or <MARQUEE>.

I used <MARQUEE>

I admit it. I am not ashamed.

Are you sure?

Can I get a shoutout to mah boyz Geocities and Angelfire?

Word! And we definitely got Tripod up ins . . .

dude are you trying to say myspace is anything but a quagmire of shit with that lame

Assuredly, MySpace is a travesty, a crime against god and nature. But, his was a shoutout to the old school, of which MySpace is not.

Man, this harkens back to lunch money days. I switched to Angelfire after a boy who liked me "hacked" my Geocities website. Oh, 7th grade.

what was your geocities password? you can disclose it now, it's safe for us.

does anybody else remember Homestead? It was insanely easy, I think you could just drag-and-drop GIFs of screaming skulls to your heart's content. My site was about Space Ghost, Petz, and Creatures, with a strong focus on breeding Norns to have fun colored fur.

Yeah dude Homestead was the shit.

Awesome

I died when I first read this strip.

"I AM in hell, when I look at your website."

hell of flashing gifs on geocities and angelfire pages.

This stuff is still out there.

Lyyyyyyyyyle

God he is so awesome

Lyle isn't one to "try" things.

I start out feeling bad for Teodor b/c Lyle is harrassing him, but the last panel shows that his website warrants nothing but criticism.

i have been to that website and back many a time. it is of a foul breed.

And still, in this day and age, there are people who insist on creating content that is impossible to view on any level.

..and then they started myspace

The more things change.

lyle is such a dick

Dancing baby: already old in 2001.

I made my first website in 1999.

It was about Pokemon.

My first website contained only the lyrics to Eminem's 'The Real Slim Shady'.

Now I do it for a living. Coincidence?

Do what? Transcribe song lyrics from CD liners to webpages? Write rap music? Took over as Slim Shady?

Mine was about Wallace and Gromit. For a sixth grader, I at least had taste. I stand by my love for Wallace and Gromit. (Not so much by my usage of animated GIFs of said Wallace and Gromit.)

Oh yes how I used the Animated GIF.

I made my first HTML website in 5th grade and linked GIF images of Pokemon cards. All of my backgrounds were solid colors. Gimp websites ftl.

I fuckin' HATE artsy-fancy web designers who design for each other and THE HELL if any of us can actually USE their sites.

The font is probably also "Papyrus."

Or the broken typewriter font.

or comic sans...

If Comic Sans is the disease within our community, Papyrus is the congenital defect.

the burden of webdesign...

Hella poignant.

I am thankful for this strip, as it demonstrates the perfect comeback for "Go to Hell." Nay, the only comeback.

"I AM in hell, when I look at your website!"

That was when I knew I was sticking with Achewood 'til the end.

Hell is other people's websites.

Did anyone else ever use Expages? Where you had to create a whole other account if you wanted your "website" to have more than one page?

I love it when Lyle is just SUPER unreasonable.

I am so ashamed of myself that my eyes have vanished.

Why is Theodor programming the website of a bible-belt housewife's craft store?

Teodor's angry frustration in panel four is terrific

I fondly remember ear-shattering MIDI music pouring out of my machine on many an Angelfire page. Oh, and rotating icons that went really slow or changed the Earth's sidereal rotation with their speed.

I miss hosting a Placebo fan page featuring my own angsty poetry, I really do. And is it just me, or does the dancing baby make anyone else throw up in their mouth a little because it reminds them of Calista Flockhart?

I only knew of it because of Calista Flockheart, and I HATED Ally McBeal. I wanted to climb into the TV and beat the whine out of her. Hell, I'm getting irritated just remembering that show even existed!

Oh hell, how can we amateur linkers compare with Brian Molko's hedonism, though?

Lyle's witty repartee makes me giggle.

I AM in hell!

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