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MLHH turned 25 today!
The very first message was posted on January 22nd 1997. A so long longevity for a community website is not common.
I wish a long life to the MLHH.
I wish also thanks this website for existing because I had found a supporting community who are like me and I don't feel alone with my long hair.
Yes, happy b-day from me as well. I guess if it started in '97 I was one of the earliest visitors. I started using the web via a text version in the mid-90s, and by '97 I was active on newsgroups and the full web of the time with my early Frankenstein IBM PC clone with Windows 95.
I rather like that this site has remained in the single forum format, which is quite rare these days. So many sites have chopped themselves up into a hundred sub-forums where the community gets lost. MLHH is simple, works right and feels like home.
Best long hair site o the web. No over priced hair ties or macho men trips like hair whips!
Darrin
Thank you for the acknowledgement of this MLHH milestone Jesus Forain.I do remember the early days of this site in the late 90s but didn't become really active until around 2005.Back then before FB and other social media options we were way more active as nowadays its much slower but thankfully still alive and kicking.As long as you guys keep using the site I'd like to see it remain available and who knows maybe activity will pick up again.Anyway appreciate you bring up this up.Cheers
Mârk
It makes me wants to pull out my old 56K modem and Windows 98!
I went for the first time on Internet in September 1999. Despite it was slow with the dial-up modem, I found it was better than now. There were a lot of personal websites, most of them on Geocities that doesn't exist anymore. Each of them had their own graphics design, most with plenty of animated GIF and flashy images. People used to browse on Internet.
Now, everybody stays jailed by social networks and don't browse on Internet. On these social networks no page personalization are permitted: except the topic, all others graphics are all the same for everybody.
And now the worst thing is that there are services like Snapchat or WhatsApp only available with a smartphone app, so you can't access them with a computer, and it's not for technical reasons. In the future you'll have an internet for smartphones and another one for computers, it's a problem for net neutrality because access to a service relies on the device type.
The MLHH is a survival from the early web! I saw the same issue on others websites and forums, they are deserted since everyone is on FB. But I prefer a website to FB because it's more friendly, it's a community focused on one theme, and it doesn't have all these ads and trackers for spying you. Moreover, it's not controlled by an AI or other stupid bot which sometimes delete your post for no reason; there are real humans to speaking in case of problem.
