They did have some good advertising in the heyday though. I can still here 'Lycos, go get it!' to the dog in my head after all these years. But then again, I also can still hear 'Sit Ubu. Sit. Good dog *bark*' as well...

I checked and yes! Both Tripod and Angelfire have kept all the old member sites still alive.


Random examples:
https://members.tripod.com/~john_ludwig_meyer/cls/ <-- some qbasic site
https://www.angelfire.com/ks/qbcentral/ <-- some other qbasic page

If you search with 'site:members.tripod.com' or 'site:angelfire.com' you'll get results. Doesn't look like any of these old pages come up in the search results otherwise in Google. (No surprises there...)


Nothing that I've found so far has been updated in 20+ years though. I wonder if it's a readonly archive or if some people are still updating their old sites (or even have access to do so)?


I tried signing up for Angelfire's free tier but they're not accepting new free accounts and my guess will never again in the foreseeable future. I was interested to see what their 'Perl/CGI' support actually meant. Also, interestingly enough, it's only mentioned on the mobile site. The desktop site only talks about page counter and logs.

https://neocities.org/ seems to be the spiritual successor to the Geocities/Tripod/Angelfire of the past. I've never used it but one of the active QB members on Pete's QB site Mike has a site there and it seems to basically fill the void that those old hosts left... just, like these type of forums, fewer people these days are using that old web 1.0 look and feel.

The saying I like is "do it for the next guy, the next guy might be you 15 years later."

I like that saying too and try to adhere to it as much as possible if I can. That has been me at work multiple times now. I've been working on the same legacy system for I think ~9 years now. Code goes back to the late 90s. I've had to do some tickets and stumbled across some code that looked familiar and was like... "was this me?". Yep. Sure enough, it was me almost a decade ago. I've developed a habit of over documenting things because of having to unwind and re-figure out random convoluted messes of the past so many times now.

Also worth noting the 'Wry: Monochrome' updated version from a few years ago. That was an experience of 'not doing it for the next guy' back in 1999/2000. :) Thankfully for that, I had at least already become somewhat re-familiar with the code from writing the Wry Parser a bit before that.