Do you remember the days of early html?  Do you remember when every website had an “under construction” gif on it?  And, if you were really cool, your “under construction” gif was animated!

Do you remember the blink tag?  Did you use the blink tag?  I did. 🙂

Ah, those horrific, garish, ostentatious webpages of yore.  Now we have the garish, ostentatious webpages at MySpace which emulate the tasteless colors and complete lack of design (with the added element of sound!) of the early 90s personal webpages, but they are too complex.  The kids today have too many choices — it’s too easy to create a loud, flashy and abrasive personal webpage.  We had to really work at it in the early 90s.

Well, while surfing tonight, I found a website that specializes in garish mouse overs!  I went there to find holiday backgrounds (it’s where I found the background I use at the bottom of this page), and I found Text Effects.  Go ahead, hover your mouse over any of my links.

Isn’t it great?!  Can you feel yourself circa 1991?  Are you ready to cruise the usenet for porn now?  That was the only way to get it back then. 😉