yes, I have one...

[blueminder]

In a time so long ago in the history of the Web, every prepubescent male teenager signed up on GeoCities (affectionately named GeoShitties at the time) and Angelfire to make their rendition of "TEH WORLD'S BEST WEBSITE EVAR!" complete with badly tiled backgrounds, countless animated GIFs and annoying MIDIs playing on page load. As an aside, I was

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[vinz_clortho]

Your assimilation was delayed but inevitable. Rejoice.

[teh_goat_girl]

Yeaaah. I gave in a while ago, but I continuously forget about it. :O

[princessleia2]

Wow, way to be sexist.

I had one of those awful, tiled background, angelfire sites in 1999 too! And it was a female friend of mine who first taught me HTML. Back in IRC those days more of my female friends had websites than male friends (and I always had more male friends).

...filling their profiles will so many animated GIFs...

And they're all hotlinked since apparently MySpace doesn't offer image hosting? I finally had to serve up a no hotlink image to MySpace users because so many of them were stealing so much of my bandwidth.

[blueminder]

You're right, I was being way too stereotypical and sexist to what I've seen in the past. It's only what I've noticed around me that I was trying to illustrate. I'm even annoyed by the videos and music that play, though now that I read back on it I don't think I emphasized that enough.

Alot of people use imageshack and photobucket, though there's a ton of hotlinking since you have people who are so fatally ignorant to HTML and scripting that your browser crashes, it just comes with the territory.

[thestormsurfer]

Your comment, if in correspondence with the facts, is an interesting observation on gender in cyberspace.

[blueminder]

Well, it has to be about as unscientific as an observation can get, I certainly never cared enough to conduct an in-depth study, heh.

[ivenopride1313]

Go buy the wilco live cd. It's awesome.