Cool Web Site from 1996!
Cyber-beach is a legacy site from the beginning of the pop web culture - went live: September 02 1996.
It has remained online and unchanged as a web museum! It is one of the oldest privately created web sites still on the net today.
Back to the days when electric postcards with Supermodels like Pamela Anderson, Cindy Crawford, Elle McPherson and even Lara Croft were all the rage. A personals page and Jimmy Buffet, Blues Festivals, spring breaks, beach bars and the Tampa Bay Blues Festival and Guavaween are in the limelight. Some of the technology is no longer functioning and some links are long gone.
When This Site Was Built -
- Netscape Navigator was "the only" browser - and it cost $89.00!($189.41 in today's money)
- Yahoo! was the only serious "search engine".
- Actually, Yahoo wasn't a "search engine" then - it was a directory
- I used to phone in new sites to Yahoo - for indexing!!
- There was no such thing as SEO
- There was no such thing as spam
- Hundreds of thousands of people sent
Lara Croft Postcards from this site - every month!
- There was no such thing as profit
- But nobody got viruses ;-}
- Check out the campy, retro, 90's design style here -
St Pete Beach / Beach Bars, Circa 1996
© 1996 seUP.net
This site is not "Mobile Friendly" - In 1996 the most advanced mobile phones only had text messages and voice calls. There was no concept of "smartphones", the web was still a new frontier for tech nerds. The most fascinating advancement in cell tech was the Motorola Star TAC.
Images here (.jpg. .gif. .png, etc) are small by today's standards. The average cathode ray computer monitor screen was only 640X480. The classic 640 × 480 VGA configuration remained dominant until the mid-1990 shift toward 800 × 600.