Sophie Koonin

localghost.dev

Sophie builds fun things out of HTML, CSS & JavaScript, and writes blog posts about tech and mental health.

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Building a website like it's 1999

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I'm on a bit of a mission this year to bring back the spirit of the old web. The creativity and flair of the late 90s and early 2000s. So I've recreated some of that old web magic, in modern HTML, CSS and JS.