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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?

I used the <MARQUEE> to make cockboats float gently across the screen. Oh, the good old days.

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.

Myspace is to bad web design what The Stray Cats are to rockabilly music.

They do it so well, people enjoy it again?

Arguing with yourself?

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.

Oh! Oh, duuuuude.
I have to find my old site.

meh. cant

yeah it definitely took me a hell of long time to pick which "neighborhood" I wanted my GeoCities website in back in the day.

Wow that took me back. Weird to be all nostalgic about the Internets.

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?

I am genuinely curious about the answers to these questions.

i second that e-motion... see what i did there?

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.

Wallace and Gromit are so frigging great. Chubby for your taste in British cartoons.

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.

Mine included Digimon as well. Plans included a mysterious webmaster amed Wargreymon. It was me. I was Wargreymon.

Dude, spoiler warning

Mine I had a Homestead or something, back when it was free, and I couldn't figure out how to use pictures aside from the default clip art of a palm tree. So I just renamed it Digimon Oasis.

I think mostly it was about how that blond kid shouldn't date that one chick.

I love pokemon so much, I am twenty three years old.

How old would you be if you did not love Pokemon?

You can hate pokemon at any age I suppose. I was just clarifying that I love pokemon, and am over the age of seven.

I would be eleven when I did not love Pokemon, because I had yet to learn of it. I remember seeing a box with a large plant monster and strange diagrams in my Nintendo Power, so many years ago.

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?

Oh god expage. Oh god, no.

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.

[IMGS OFF]

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?

When she dances with that spectral milk child it is a thing.

Later it tries to actively skewer her with a spear.

It reminds me of the sacred right to choose.

I dunno, man, back in the day I kind of wanted to, how you say, have lots of sex with Calista Flockhart.

Nah man, she's too bony. Her hips would pierce something vital and then you'd lie there on top of her bleeding to death but she'd be too weak to get out from under you what with all the never eating a single thing in her entire life so she wouldn't be able to call an ambulance and you would die. But then she'd die as well so maybe it's a worthy sacrifice.

Oh sweet, the baby is totally dancing in time to the song I am listening to (King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part III, the version on Absent Lovers).

Chubbied for good taste.

Lyle's witty repartee makes me giggle.

I AM in hell!

"Dancing Baby" is a routine I have a tendency to perform after consuming massive quantities of booze or booze-like substances.

Lyle is a lot more adroit with his putdowns in these heady early days.

As it stands he now needs to add an 'ese' and The Bird to every finisher. Insecure.

i think its impossible for ones first website not to look ridiculous

The Dancing Baby: the birth of the Internet Meme.

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