Gaze deeply into this loving tribute to the heyday of Geocities web design
Constructing a Geocities website may have required only basic knowledge of HTML, but the actual page designs were far from simple. That’s something underscored by the website Cameron’s World, a loving tribute to both the hosting platform’s heyday and primitive ’90s web design. Cameron Askin, a digital designer from Berlin, scoured the Geocities archives and scraped together a scroll-worthy page which highlights the days when browsing the web had all the subtlety of a Lisa Frank sticker book. “In an age where we interact primarily with branded and marketed web content, Cameron’s World is a tribute to the lost days of unrefined self-expression on the Internet,” says the page’s manifesto. “This project recalls the visual aesthetics from an era when it was expected that personal spaces would always be under construction.”