On the flip of the millennium, websurfers celebrated Halloween with a lot of animated GIFs, gaudy repeating backgrounds, and creepy MIDI music. As an homage, we combed by the GeoCities archives to search out some nostalgic Halloween web sites from the late ’90s and early ’00s. Every of them is a priceless time capsule of the previous.

The Chavtur Household’s Halloween 1998

Within the ’90s, many individuals created private web sites for household picture albums. Pre-social media, that is how folks shared household occasions with buddies and kin on-line. This GeoCities web page paperwork the Chavtur household’s 1998 Halloween celebration in photos, full with pumpkin carving and costumes.

Mark’s Haunted Storage

Mark Allen has hosted a haunted home in his Penfield, New York storage for practically 30 years. His private GeoCities web site documented in photographs the format of each single one, all the best way again to 2001.

Amazingly, after GeoCities shut down, Allen (who’s a pc programmer) continued to replace his web site by way of a distinct host by final 12 months. Sadly, 2020’s haunting has been canceled as a consequence of COVID-19.

Haunting Sounds

It was frequent within the ’90s to deck out your web site with some MIDI theme music. It performed within the background whereas guests browsed your web site (though, many individuals discovered it annoying). The Haunting Sounds web site has a group of Halloween-themed songs, together with the themes from Beetlejuice and The Addams Household, in addition to some creepy WAV file sound results.

Halloween 1998 on the Police Division

On the finish of the 20th century, even native police departments hosted their very own web sites on GeoCities. They posted updates, similar to a contemporary Fb feed, and generally, these have been unintentionally creepy.

For instance, the Halloween replace from 1998 options Dita Virtuoso, a regulation enforcement assist technician, dressed as a clown. So cheerful and enjoyable. Not!

Comfortable Halloween with Mother Graphics

Many Halloween-dedicated websites again within the day included details about the historical past of the vacation, costume suggestions, and recommendation on which sorts of sweet handy out.

That’s simply what you’ll discover on this cute web site embellished with 1990’s mother graphics, full with an animated glowing background. As the youngsters say at present, it’s an aesthetic.

Haunted Mansion 3D

Should you’ve by no means ridden the well-known Haunted Mansion trip at Disneyland, you’ll be happy to know somebody re-created it as a downloadable map file. It was for probably the most cutting-edge 3D simulator obtainable on the time, Duke Nukem 3D.

Fortunately, somebody filmed a tour of this “cyber-space” model of the trip.

Halloween Graphics Assortment

Should you’re itching for some ’90’s-style animated GIFs or creepy banners on your Fb web page, look no additional than the nostalgic collections on GeoCities.

There are a ton of classic collections on there; to search out them, simply sort “halloween graphics web site:oocities.org” within the Google Picture Search. You’ll have a spooky good time shopping the previous.

Comfortable Halloween!

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