Expage and Geocities
Posted by evie001001 on September 14, 2007
I have been musing over old memories in the past couple of months. Does anyone remember the rubbish old expage sites everyone had around the year 2000? Oh how i loved them. And hated geocities. It was a kind of rivalry for the young computer geek generation. We all signed eachothers guestbooks with comments running along the lines of ‘gr8 site, love the layout. Visit my site and dont forget to sign the guestbook! PS: Wanna do a link exchange?’ And the best sites had the highest number of hits and the most link exchanges. Guestbook entries were gold. I know this all sounds very wierd to most people, but does anyone remember?
Wow i probably was the saddest teenager.
I came across a printout of an old website i did when i was 15. It was from e-lusions.com (my first domain!) and was a div layout over a mystical image with fairies and stuff on it. I can honestly say it was better than any website i can do now. I’ll have to post the image here one day.
Its funny how if you stop doing a hobby it takes a long time to get back into it. Fine Art which i did at college would be difficult to get back into. Does anyone else get that? Or perhaps its something to do with learning when you’re young?
Speaking of past times, does anyone remember Pogs and Slammers?! Or Power rangers, or Saved by the Bell? Or the old Goosebumps books – I remember them being amazing, until i went on holiday last summer and found one at the old cottage we were staying at. I read it in about an hour, it was rubbish. Say Cheese and Die or something, i cant remember.
I’m only 20, i’m sure when i’m 40 i’ll be talking about the old Nintendo Wii’s, I’m a celebrity and Harry Potter books.
matt said
forget expage and geocities; fortunecity and angelfire were the big dogs
the fact that you could pick a ‘region’ in fortunecity made it easily the most entertaining.. i think i had a site on fulton street in the entertainment district. brilliant!
humble beginnings and all that..
evie001001 said
Ooo yeah fortunecity and angelfire, must credit them! Brilliant!
Samantha said
I will never forget expage days..er…I mean years. Those were times of learning and, for some people, not learning. There was a big change for me when I switched to a mac and suddenly everything looked different, but I still carried on trying to use the silly expage coding, but not sure if anything ever looked good on the other side of things (Windows, IE, etc.). My favorite thing was to write “gbook” messages back and forth like it was email and comment on as many new layouts as I could. What was your page name? Mine was sillietree.
You’re looking ahead to talking about the Wii? I feel old just raving about N64 and Sega Genesis. Reminising about the past is what I tend to do often, honestly.
evie001001 said
Yeah, good old guestbooks lol. Mine was called Angel Dust!! haha. And then I think I also had one called e-lusions… MyStiCaL lol.
Lisa said
Yeah, I remember old Expage years. They were awesome. I used Expage and Freewebs and my site was called Sapphire Desire.
Goosebumps books are rubbish but they were great back in the day.
MaryJo said
I used to have two expages! oh good times. Expage isn’t even around anymore.
Shari said
does anyone remember how to get to the old expage site? it comes up as some business thing now
links?
erica said
i miss it now the site i had on it then was dumb but now i cant make a cool one because its gone
don said
yeah. expage rocked. wish it was still alive
Grace said
Have been reminiscing about the past.. It is funny how webpage designing was all the rage than but wordpress came along & changed everyone…
Smurfy said
Man. I miss my old expages.
2000 was a good time.