evacide

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What you need to understand about the World Wide Web in 1994, is that it was incredibly ugly: www.fastcompany.com/91140068/how...

Jul 05, 2024 at 19:48 UTC

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Time Spinner @spinny.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:59 UTC

Have you ever felt nostalgic for the feel of old tech? You will.

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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:54 UTC

I remember when that web in the article was amazing those of us who were there pre-websites. Like the GEnie bulletin board system.

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chris @intergint-systems.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 14:01 UTC

The irony of trying to read this article on mobile is delicious

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Otis B. Driftwood @obdriftwood.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:54 UTC

Anyone who experienced Geocities would never ever EVER want to go back there.

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SpookyTeapot @spookyteapot.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 21:05 UTC

Also very very slow, even on a university network.

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R.J. Huneke @rj.rjhuneke.com
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:41 UTC

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:25 UTC

3 years later though www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs34...

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ten s-net🎼🕯 @btmn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 21:57 UTC

kids today don’t know how privileged they are to have iframes

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Andrew @andrewgowen.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 08:38 UTC

Not ugly; it was utilitarian. It was also relatively fast, given the bandwidth available and to a very large degree, it was ad free and cookies didn’t follow you around spying on your every move. I’d happily give up “pretty” for “private”.

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Patrick Ziselberger @ziselberger.com
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:54 UTC

Pre-CSS! Your font choices were serif and sans serif. There were 215 cross-platform web-safe colors. Small image size was more important than quality, since almost everyone was on dial-up.

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atreides nuts @afivegantenna.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:52 UTC

this feels like gaslighting i am literally being hit with video pop up ads as i try to read this article

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Matt Gordon (He/Him, mostly) ✡️🏳️‍🌈 @drmattyg.com
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 21:22 UTC

My 1994 personal web page had a brick facade background with white text and pictures of Beavis and Butthead on it so, yes.

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Aaron Bourque @afbourque.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 21:34 UTC

So were pre-human primates, and yet we evolved from them.

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Mirjam @mirjam.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:58 UTC

So it still was in 1998, 2002, and 2005. Though I do miss the Geocities/Angelfire DIY esthetic sometimes

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:06 UTC

I believe you mean “classic”.

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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 21:13 UTC

yes, incredibly ugly, as you say. a veritable pain for the eye. pixel salad.
but then we had nicolas pioch's wonderful weblouvre with lots of (almost) hi-res images (saved here for posterity > www.ibiblio.org/wm/) that took ages to load.

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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 08:44 UTC

Recall that certain browsers - Cello, for example - didn’t support graphics? Also, that much of the content was written by hand using simple text editors. I had one of South Africa’s first web pages - on Ebola and other HDVs, in fact!

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Emil @emilgson.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:38 UTC

Was Still better than it is now , like maybe by a long long mile . Now you have ads and auto playing videos plastered over every fucking thing and you get a little port hole to watch through. Some sites are so bloated with crap they crash if you scroll too fast cuz the takeover ad fucks up.

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Marco Jardim @marco.jard.im
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:22 UTC

I miss some things about the old web. I do not miss table-based website layouts. I will say though, that during the 90's and early 2k, accessibility was on the rise and common practice for most developers. Ever since Web 2.0 it's been in steep decline, and that sucks.

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