If you're anything like me, you are obsessed with the 90's like Graham is with Kit. And if you're even more like me, you might try to recreate or give of that 90's feel in your projects (like your website). But then you realize; "shit. How the fuck do I do that? Everything I look up leads to a dead end that doesnt help me at all!" Luckily, me, DoodleDew155, yours truly, am here to help. I have found a bajillion website to help you!
When you're making a website, you will probably have atleast one piece of text. I know, crazy am I right. I usually like to use gifs and fonts in my projects. For fonts specifically, you can go to fontsinuse.com. Go to advance searcg under the search bar. Then go to "date published", "is" and then any date you want. But if you're to lazy to look it up, here are some fonts that you may recognize and want to use.
Jokerman
Only really works for titles imo. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Comic Sans
The classic. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Cooper Black
Very cartoony, also a classic. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Comiccrazy
One of the fonts from Banjo Kazooie; the other one is "Lithos". The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Curlz
Similar to Jokerman, except you can use it outside of titles (imo). The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
If you want to use text as an image of gif, you can go here for wordart, here for gifs and here for miscellaneous (including the fire text)
Backgrounds With a 90s background, Im refering to a (usually) looping image or gif in the background of a page (like this one and others on my site!). If you have ever tried to look for 90s backgrounds by looking up something like "90s backgrounds", "90s website backgrounds",etc, you know you never actually find the previously defined definition. But dont fret, cause I have found the jackpot; gettsyburg.edu and more gettsyburg.edu A bajillion backgrounds, and from what I can tell, they're majority of them are looping. Some images are duplicates tho. For more backgrounds (or, textures, technically) you can go to Texture Town made by the wonderful Melonking! But if that STILL isnt enought for you, I have here some cherry picked backgrounds from 90's texture packs and other wonderful places!
With a 90s background, Im refering to a (usually) looping image or gif in the background of a page (like this one and others on my site!). If you have ever tried to look for 90s backgrounds by looking up something like "90s backgrounds", "90s website backgrounds",etc, you know you never actually find the previously defined definition. But dont fret, cause I have found the jackpot; gettsyburg.edu and more gettsyburg.edu A bajillion backgrounds, and from what I can tell, they're majority of them are looping. Some images are duplicates tho. For more backgrounds (or, textures, technically) you can go to Texture Town made by the wonderful Melonking! But if that STILL isnt enought for you, I have here some cherry picked backgrounds from 90's texture packs and other wonderful places!
As previously mentioned, if you want gifs, you can go to gif cities. But if you're looking for non-gif 90's esc images or even audio, you can go to discmaster. Discmaster is an "Experimental website to browse and search vintage computer files from archive.org". Although I personally only use it for the aforementioned reasons, but there are a zillion other types of files. There are also probaby html files but idk I never look for those. How the website works, is that you write one word in the search bar like "hello", "dolphin", "tree", etc. Here are some images I found on there!
For something a bit more forgetable, you can get a bunch of icons from old computers at The Iconolog. I don't really see much of a use for this on your website per see, except for favicons. But you could probably use it in your other projects (like art). Note that it's sorted by what the icon shows, not from which system it came from.
If you want to be so retro that your page looks almost exactly like an actually 90s page; then heres what you gotta do. Step 1: you know style.css? FUCK STYLE.CSS!!! Older websites (from what I presume) didn't actually have style.css's. Eventhough the .css format was invented in 1996, a lot of older website to 2001 seem to not use it. But there are luckily still a lot of really really simple things to do with only html:
Colors: <p style="color:[any color];">
Size: <h2>
Image: <img src="image.png">
But if you want to use images, of any kind really, you also need to remember that older website dont have much space. Geocity websites apparently had a max size of 15 MB. Thats about as much as a 3 minute 360p video. This is why a lot of images from older websites were really small. Its also because computer resolutions were smaller back then. So an image that could easily fill an entire page can now fill about 1/4 of the screen.
©DoodleDew155
1990 - 1999
Colors: <p style="color:[any color];">
Size: <h2>
Image: <img src="image.png">
But if you want to use images, of any kind really, you also need to remember that older website dont have much space. Geocity websites apparently had a max size of 15 MB. Thats about as much as a 3 minute 360p video. This is why a lot of images from older websites were really small. Its also because computer resolutions were smaller back then. So an image that could easily fill an entire page can now fill about 1/4 of the screen.©DoodleDew155
1990 - 1999