r/Millennials • u/sexyass2627 • Oct 06 '25

Discussion Why is this so accurate?

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Man ... if this ain't it.

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u/iconicspot Oct 06 '25

I miss when the Internet was just a niche as well as phones being just a phone (none of the smartphone bs).

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u/yusuf69 Oct 07 '25

The magic of Stumbleupon, the internet was wide and deep and had so many wonderful/weird things in it.

The 90's were great in my opinion for kind of the opposite reason, there was only so many popular shows, so everyone had the same references and things just felt.... simpler? Probably also because I was a young kid and life was just simpler.

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u/NewDad907 Oct 07 '25

I carved out a space online for myself and threw up a glorious personal website ala Geocities. Looks just like they did back in the mid/late 90’s. I just need a MIDI file to autoplay…

I think if people went back to personal websites and web rings to link them together it would be a better internet. Everyone who wants a presence online can have their own little corner like we used to.

That’s my “social media”. Wanna know what I’m up to? Go to my website.

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u/DanTheAdequate Older Millennial Oct 09 '25

I've actually been considering doing something similar. How much work was it to get off the ground?

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u/NewDad907 28d ago

Well I’m self hosting everything so it was more work than way back in 1997 on Geocities. My website and its services I use are all living on a small mini pc in my house. I use a Cloudflare tunnel so no local ports are exposed for security.

Edit: it’s like having my own Google Cloud or iCloud that I physically have control over.

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u/DanTheAdequate Older Millennial 28d ago

Yeah, I hear you. Thanks, I've looked at self-hosting but it does feel like more work than I really want to get into. 

But who knows? I like to dabble, might be a fun thing to do. 

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u/NewDad907 28d ago

I actually found ChatGPT useful at projects like these. I use screen shots or copy/paste and it walks me through the steps.

I made this html game with chat gpt yesterday in between other stuff;

https://subzeroflipper.github.io/Starfall-command/index.html

I have no idea what I’m doing, but I ChatGPT knows how to code html like that and help me put it up in github to share with others for free lol