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Cameron
Personal blog · cameronsworld.netculturedesign
Cameron's personal blog at cameronsworld.net covers culture and design. Since 2015, 43 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “Cameron's World – A love letter to the Internet of old”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
🌍 A web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of GeoCities.
Most-linked posts?
- Cameron's World – A love letter to the Internet of old27 people · 28 mentions · first linked 2018-10-01
- A Love Letter to Geocities Sites12 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2020-10-30
- Cameron's World3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-08-19
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-25
What Hacker News says?
You might like this website: https://www.cameronsworld.net/ It's a Geocities archive containing websites hosted on the platform from the 90s/00s. I really like the creativity and authenticity in the archived sites, it's like looking at a mirror into the past.
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on “IMG_0416”Submitted A Love Letter to Geocities Sites as a story · 269 points
HN discussionI do not as global warming has caused my servers to dissolve into ash particles. You can try to find me in your favorite code editor (I live there now), but alas...to answer your question - if you are genuinely curious about the type of work I can do, please see Cameron's World[0] as it best reflects my approach to brandable (and sustainable I guess) web design. [0]: https://www.cameronsworld.net/
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on “I regret my website redesign”Submitted Cameron's World as a story · 249 points
HN discussionIf you're looking for another dose of nostalgia: https://www.cameronsworld.net/ .
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on “Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?”Submitted A Love Letter to the Internet of Old as a story · 211 points
HN discussionSome more lightweight old-fashioned internet portals other than the ones mentioned before: https://marijnflorence.neocities.org/linkroll/ https://neonaut.neocities.org/directory/ https://webring.xxiivv.com/ https://dreamwiki.sixey.es/welcome.dream/ https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html https://www.cameronsworld.net/
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on “How I Experience Web Today”Submitted A love letter to the Internet of old as a story · 9 points
HN discussionHere's one of my favorites: https://www.cameronsworld.net/
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on “Yamauchi No.10 Family Office”Submitted Cameron's World: Web-Collage of GeoCities as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor more nostalgia check out https://www.cameronsworld.net/ . Great curation of old geocities websites complete with a Netscape navigator lookalike.
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on “90s Cursor Effects”Submitted Creativity in the form of archived web pages from the dawn of the internet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou'd probably enjoy this collage of GeoCities vibes: https://www.cameronsworld.net/
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on “The 88x31 GIF Collection”Submitted Cameron's World as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://www.cameronsworld.net
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on “Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?”Submitted Cameron's World (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRelated: https://www.cameronsworld.net/ A great mural of old internet gifs, and autoplaying MIDI music.
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on “Make Front End Shit Again (2018)”Submitted Cameron's World – A love letter to the Internet of old as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://www.cameronsworld.net
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on “The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want”Submitted Cameron's World: A love letter to the Internet of old as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSpot on. This is just the anti-trend to minimalism, which again was the anti-trend to what I grew up with: https://www.cameronsworld.net/ (which was the anti-trend to the original, booooooring beginnings of hypertext) 'All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.' — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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on “Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?”Submitted Cameron's World as a story · 1 points
HN discussionGonna hijack the top comment and share one of my favorites :P https://www.cameronsworld.net/
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on “Welcome to the Old Internet Again”Submitted Cameron's World as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://www.cameronsworld.net
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on “Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019)”Submitted Camerons World as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOk, this is a long shot, but if any forum is likely to know, it's HN. I first got my start in web development when I was around 8 (early 2000s) thanks to a very large (or at least it was to an 8 year old) purple book on HTML. There was one passing mention of how animated GIFs might be added to websites with an IMG tag. The example of the animated GIF they showed (they exploded the frames) reminded me of this image […
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on “A Love Letter to Geocities Sites”Submitted Camerons World, a Geocities web-collage (warning:sound) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI always love having an excuse to repost this: https://www.cameronsworld.net/ This is my idea of the personal web.
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on “Let's make the web personal again”Submitted Cameron's World: A collage of text and images from GeoCities as a story · 1 points
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