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rom-antics
Yvette and Ling would be perfect for each other. https://www.lingscars.com/
actually_a_dog
Can George Hutchins come over and play, too?

http://www.georgehutchins.com/

wyclif
"A Concusses Will Be Taken To Represent The True Desires Of North Carolina 4th U.S. Congress District Voters."
AnnikaL
GEORGE HUTCHINS U.S. CONGRESS WEBSITE RETURNING SOON !!!

GEORGE HUTCHINS U.S. CONGRESS VIDEOS RETURNING SOON !!!

HUTCHINS U.S. CONGRESS MESSAGE BOARD RETURNING SOON !!!

RajT88
Damn My Eyes!

I was completely mystified by this, until I got to the "Panama City, Florida" part.

This is not even the usual indictment of Florida. This captures the general mood of the Panama City Beachfront area.

a2800276
Florida woman! But gotta say, while the site is showing it's age a bit, it has character and Yvette's looks like a fun place.
ISL
This link may have triggered my chrome-mobile browser to make a download?
zoklet-enjoyer
Same. Midi file. Music only started playing when I clicked on a link to another page
blondin
yes. i have not seen this in a very long time! it is supposed to play the midi file. in fact, it works on the other pages. but when you have you html wrong, the midi will get downloaded instead. that's what is happening on the index page.
denkmoon
The strangest part of all this is why there is a random screenshot of Flight Simulator... Really adds the cherry on top.
paulgb
And some old screenshots of Blender!

I’m confused by what they’re doing there but it all does seem to work and I love it.

mrweasel
I think that's the logo of the designer: Dude Otep.
sircastor
Click on the link and could not help saying “woah”.

Also reminded of lingscars.com

actually_a_dog
Hah. I knew what this was before I clicked on it, and still said "whoa!"
100pctremote
Thank you. Although I never bookmarked that site I've never forgotten it.
ecshafer
This is a great website. It also makes me nostalgic for the old internet, where it was more amateur and novel.
calderknight
http://wiby.me/ is a search engine for finding these sites. You can use the "surprise me" button to be brought to a random page.
Waterluvian
It loads fast.
irrational
That’s what I noticed too. Imagine if the whole Internet loaded this fast?
userbinator
Not a single piece of JS. Also, nearly everything is in absolutely positioned divs, leaving the browser very little to do in the way of layout.
speed_spread
And not a single line of JavaScript in sight.
andrewstuart
Genius. I don't know if anyone could deliberately design this, could they? Seems to be a natural thing that an amateur coder somehow puts together. Everything on geocities was a bit like this.

Makes me think of the asian "visually busy" websites like https://kakaku.com/

userbinator 

    <meta name="generator" content="Yahoo! SiteBuilder/2.6/1.5.0_02">
Judging by that and the content being almost entirely within absolutely positioned divs, I suspect the author just dragged and dropped all the images and text boxes whereever she thought would be a good idea, in the style of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collage .
userbinator
I recognise the title, and remember the experience --- one of those sites where you know exactly what they're trying to sell.
nwacct_324
Here’s a website for a pizzeria in Seattle with some of the same early internet aesthetic: https://www.dinostomatopie.com/
theonething
This is fantastic. I want to try it just because of the website.

How's the pizza there?

uxamanda
Delicious. They also have another pizzeria called Delancey. Dino’s is old school east coast. Delaney is thin crust Italian.
infinitezest
According to their website, "our menu is actually good".
kodt
I love how it is responsive
petsormeat
It's great how the copy sustains the mood of nonsensical good cheer: "Life is rich and sweet and good and healthy like a warm, soothing, scented essential oils massage in a steamy hot~springs bath~house ~* Aspen, Alice, Alpine"
coreyp_1
Thank you! I have been looking for this website for years! I remember it from so long ago, and then I couldn't find it again. I was even telling someone about it the other day. You actually made my day by posting this! LOL
Nition
Just a note, the real thing disappeared a few years ago unfortunately, but the one I've linked is someone else's kindly archived copy from 8 April 2010.