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I miss the 90s web I used to browse with Netscape Navigator. I really liked static navigation menus where I didn't have to stop and infer the functionalities fr
by pwaai 9y ago
I miss the 90s web I used to browse with Netscape Navigator. I really liked static navigation menus where I didn't have to stop and infer the functionalities from an icon or hidden expendable/scrolling menus.
I made my first website with it when I was 11 (still have it on a cd rom)...it was so simple to use. In fact, a lot of stuff in the late 90s to the early 2000s were very approachable as a curious noob. I started tinkering with QBASIC during 1997 on an old 286 with a monochrome monitor (still have it), and when I got a Windows computer and I tried to make a Warez site on Geocities lol....manually searching altavista for 50mb rar parts compressing Playstation ISO images on a 56k modem, hosted on myspace.com (when it used to be a file storage)...it took all summer to compile but again everything was easier because people didn't give a shit what the site looked like, they just cared about what they could get for free.
Now it seems impossible to get away without some trendy UI framework or experts reminding us how we are doing it wrong...which ironically increased the webpage filesize to 196kbps mp3 files that works on modern devices.
- agumonkey 9y agothe irony is that a lot of young people and thus companies are looping into the "we need fiber optics for teh web" so they can reach barely useful MB webpages and stream barely interesting 4K content. Reminds me I have to prototype some low bandwidth mesh network to see how fast it could go with simple html4 era websites. ps: note that .. I was very eager to have full js websites when the web 2.0 thing started. failed experiment IMO
- KozmoNau7 9y ago> Reminds me I have to prototype some low bandwidth mesh network to see how fast it could go with simple html4 era websites. Please do. We need a low-bandwidth, low-noise, no BS alternative to the festering mess that is the current state of the Internet. We need a meshnet, for information and learning, not for advertising and spam. The low bandwidth will help enforce simpler content, with less overhead.
- qznc 9y ago> miss the 90s web I used to browse with Netscape Navigator. I really liked static navigation menus where I didn't have to stop and infer the functionalities from an icon or hidden expendable/scrolling menus. You romanticize. We made confusing menus as well with JavaScript (called DynamicHTML back then), Flash, and Java plugins. We were proud of fire and water effects and other gimmicks.
- krapp 9y agocough JS enabled form dropdowns and iframes and imagemaps... cough And then Superfish when you wanted to be serious.