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That's an interesting idea. There's something very raw about those university.edu/department/~username pages that existed with the most basic of HTML--unstyled
by et-al 9y ago
That's an interesting idea. There's something very raw about those university.edu/department/~username pages that existed with the most basic of HTML--unstyled tables, blue anchor links, images only when you needed them, and almost no Yavascript.
That rawness, without too many attribute tags let alone CSS, is brutalist.
- kirkules 9y agoBtw, the university pages you mention are still extremely common, at least in mathematics-related fields
- roywiggins 9y agoWhen I'm searching for info on something, if I land on a page with no styling and no multimedia beyond hypertext and images, I know I've hit something good because it's almost certainly an academic's personal page!
- 0xffff2 9y agoYep, "existed" is the wrong tense. My university's entire CS and Engineering schools run on those style of pages.
- lazerwalker 9y agoOlia Lialina has a great piece about the aesthetics of "Prof. Dr. Style": http://contemporary-home-computing.org/prof-dr-style/ http://contemporary-home-computing.org/prof-dr-style/
- et-al 9y agoThanks for this link! Never knew someone gave this "style" a name. (And an apt one to boot)