Asklemmy

You need this image:
http://hwg.org/images/lo-025.gif

You can even go all out and actually join legitimately: http://hwg.org/services/logo/

There is not enough contrast or too much contrast between your text and the background.

What I’m trying to say is that is too easy on the eyes to read the text. 😂

Needs an animated gif that doesn't properly render transparency, so the background is just a solid color.

Needs a blink tag and some old style Microsoft Word art.

Can we have a globe please that magically spins?

Custom curors that animate at rest and during loading so you're not sure which part of the curors clicks, and also not sure sure if something is being loaded or not. Bonus points if the cursor changes to yet another ambiguous animated one as you hover over a tiny button which would pause the midi track.

It should work at 640x480 and no other resolution.

The midi file doesn't play automatically, but I see that's a thing your working on.

Also need gifs of Bart Simpson saying "Don't have a cow man"

Line by line loading images, maybe an error message saying the connection dropped with the modem sound playing to restart the page.

Guestbook didn't work, after recaptcha it just said POST failed. Oh and you need a visitor counter!

@ajsadauskas @linux Image maps? <marquee>? A digital view counter, or one of those gifs of a spinning odometer.
A link that goes to a clip art digger saying 'under construction' in 90s office clip art.

Comic Sans MS

That cat is way too high res

Adobe flash.

You need some “important” data that’s in an unstyled bulky table. You also need some horizontal rules on the page to split up content.

@ajsadauskas @asklemmy iframes - you definitely need them

Fun idea. ASCII Art!

Background audio player that automatically plays some crusty grunge midis

256 colors. Especially for that background. Or maybe even less and use dithering.

Spinning wordart!

That site would have been considered remarkably beautiful and aesthetically pleasing. As such it's not quite realistic.

Much too legible. I recommend less contrast for the text.

I don't see you playing with alignment? I would like more centered text personally. And long lines of text without breaks.

Why not throw in some "lorem ipsum" placeholders.

Are you using a WYSIWYG editor?

Where are your dancing hampsters?

Also is this before or after it became trendy to copy/paste all sorts of scripts into the html? Remember scrolling text on the status bar, how about those ascii things that follow your mouse around?

I'd keep an eye on your page's size, remember we would be loading this on 56k dialup modems... if we were lucky!

Infinite popups, simulated of course now that most web browsers block popups.

This is going on my bookmarks toolbar. Thank you!

Needs more dancing Jesus

I love it! Takes me right back. I was going to suggest adding a visitor counter but you already had it.

use html tables with large borders ... or that is how I feel the old times look

You might get some useful ideas on !oldweb@lemmy.ml (although it seems abandoned now)

Put some more random badges on the bottom
This site has a lot of them: https://web.badges.world/

http://theoldnet.com/

@ajsadauskas @asklemmy You need to change the mouse cursor to anything but an arrow. Bonus points if it leaves a trail. Like a peace sign cursor that leaves a rainbow trail, or a clock face where the numbers fall off when it moves.

BOOTSTRA.386 (okay, on second thought, that's more the 80s and doesn't really fit.)

I had to go dig up the link again. Was looking for this folding license plate step thing I saw once, and found the sellers website. Looks like it is also straight out of the 90's

http://markthree.com/custom_vans_license_plate_steps.htm

Oh man -- you need a blink tag on some of that text. Support for the tag has been removed from all modern browsers.

So you'll need to add it in with javascript that updates CSS or something.

@ajsadauskas@aus.social @asklemmy@lemmy.ml I think I actually have a few of my 90s-era sites archived. One of them should have an auto play midi for the background music. I'll see if I can dig it up!