Link's Oracle: The Best Zelda 64 Site Out There

This image is broken but it used to be a one of those all-time visitor counters!

Welcome Message My first foray into client-rendered web development. I remember this being a huge achievement for me, capturing your name and using cookies to remember your visit count! Yes, the popup is very annoying now, and it really should be on the main wrapper page so it only triggers once rather than every time you visit the home page.

Hey webmasters!! Want 100,000+ hits more per month? Join this program and get your site listed #1 on loads of sites!!! Just sign up and follow instructions! Awesome! Click Here!

Not sure what 'The Zelda Oscars by Zelda-Temple' was, but this broken image used to point to a file called oscarsmallbutt1.gif and I am really curious what that was.


Link's Oracle- July 8/1999

Big News I kind of enjoy how I had this "news feed" component here. I would post changes into this table after copying the old message into the archive ("Link's Journal", in the menu). No CMS powering this, no portal to enter it, just copying and pasting the old text into the other HTML file.

There's definitely some fun stuff to unpack in here, too, like "updating 200 numbers everday" (see the Hyrule at War page), and that mysterious send off teasing a future of web development. Why did I call myself Ganon?

Hey, big news. I will not be updating this site anymore. All the neccessary info is up and you can still use this site but I will no longer be updating any links, quiz resuslts, or Hyrule at War. The Game is too much for me to handle and No one else understands it. If you check out that section I am putting up a legacies section and keeping the links section up so you can still play Zelda Games online. No forms will be answered and I will check my email once a week now. I know I am dissappointing everyone but if you had to update 200 numbers everyday you'd get tired of it too. Well So long, and perhaps there will be more sites from the famous Ganon...

This broken link appears to have been some kind of 'Vote for the Best Website' Widget.

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Custom Email I remember this being a big deal, a service that could provide you with your own email address, with the added benefit of having a custom domain. It was normal at the time to have something like yourhandle@hotmail.com but getting something in your other side of the @ symbol was a status symbol. And with this, you used to be able to offer your users their own email on your subdomain. Epic.

I've disabled the form submission and links for safety, but that sure would be cool if I could log into that account again.

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HWF What

Hyrule: Home of HWF (Hyrule Wrestling Federation)


Webring This right here was peak Web 1.0. These webrings were similarly themed websites banding together to promote their joint discoverability. Submit your site with a banner to the exchange, and then post the banner on your site. When a visitor arrived here, they'd be shown a link to another partner site.

Bots would destroy something like this today and algorithms have made them irrelevant on your various social sites, but wow was there something to be said about the human curation here. I miss it!

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Browser Wars Hard not to say anythign about this! At the time I was a big fan of Internet Explorer over Netscape because of all the extra bits it supported, when Netscape did not! Looking back now, I know a lot more about what was happening here and I'd surely have been rooting for Netscape, but the culture at this time was very bitter between these two competitors and the internet was in flux! Looks I'm on record for which side I took!

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