Welcome
This is a single‑file retro testbed: DHTML tricks, starfield, Matrix rain, cursor trails, snow, a guestbook, a fake hit counter, a draggable window, and more. Upload anywhere and it just works.
Hackpen / JokerJonny — Old‑School Cowboy Bio
Since 1996 we built the web the cowboy way — mixing scripts, breaking limits, and duct‑taping magic together until it worked. We shipped at 2 a.m. over dial‑up, then prayed IE4 and Netscape 4 wouldn’t explode on load.
GENNOW — Generation Now was the banner: build what’s next, not what’s allowed.
Greatest Hits of the Era:
- DHTML stunts (layers, rollovers, typewriter text, floating windows).
- FrontPage 97/98/2000 & Dreamweaver 1–2 — WYSIWYG meets hand‑coded rescue missions.
- Flash 2 intros, Shockwave embeds, and the infamous “Skip Intro” button.
<table>layouts, spacer GIFs, image slicing, and bevel button sprites.- Inline frames, framesets, and frame‑busting JavaScript when things went feral.
- CGI
formmail.plon Perl, early PHP3 mailers, classic ASP + SSI includes. - Guestbooks, hit counters, webrings, and GeoCities/Angelfire deployments.
- Browser‑sniffing for IE4 vs NS4, CSS hacks, PNG alpha “gotchas”.
- Background MIDIs, comet cursors, blinking banners, marquee scrollers.
- FTP at midnight, rollback by hand, and README.txt as our CI/CD.
This page is a salute to that era — rebuilt clean so the nostalgia slaps, but the code doesn’t.
Contact (Web‑Mail Demo)
Server options: Perl CGI (formmail.pl), PHP (PHPMailer), or serverless (Netlify/AWS/Cloudflare). Replace form.action and swap the JS fetch() in the script below.
Guestbook
Effects
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