Asklemmy

Heres a site in the similar vain, https://anarchymeanything.com/

Guest book,

Webring

Visit counter

Good luck, i like the older internet so much nostalgia

CSS Snowflakes

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

It should work at 640x480 and no other resolution.

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.

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"

Can we have a globe please that magically spins?

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

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

That cat is way too high res

@ajsadauskas @asklemmy iframes - you definitely need them

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 @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.

Adobe flash.

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!

Spinning wordart!

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

Background audio player that automatically plays some crusty grunge midis

Comic Sans MS

Fun idea. ASCII Art!

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

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

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

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

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

Needs more dancing Jesus

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.

This is going on my bookmarks toolbar. Thank you!

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.

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

You might get some useful ideas on [email protected] (although it seems abandoned now)

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

You need to offer something banal for download with a spinning stiffy disk gif.

@ajsadauskas @asklemmy (Trying to remember my own GeoCities site from back then), Many had a “best viewed on Netscape” icon

I think mine had mostly my own song lyrics, with a different background for each page, with a menu page and forward/back links on each lyrics page.

Were frames 90s? Friend of mine used frames to make his site look like a console from Star Trek TNG