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It's really a shame that so many of these exhibits are company homepages; it really puts a strange spin on the internet and makes me wonder how weird our look a
by sdrothrock 8y ago
It's really a shame that so many of these exhibits are company homepages; it really puts a strange spin on the internet and makes me wonder how weird our look at history is compared to "what it was really like."
For example, I remember the split frame layout (nav on top or left, body in remainder) dominating web layouts for a long, long time -- the CSS float to keep navigation "on top" was really just mimicking that for a lot of people.
Similarly, pop-up windows were such a huge thing for a long time, whether it was for a music player, or for site navigation, or just links opening in little miniature windows meant to be hovered over the main page so that you never "left."
The closest that any of those sites come to capturing the "feel" of the internet in that time for me is probably the Microsoft Games site.
Incidentally, one of them looks really broken: https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/true-is-true-2001 https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/true-is-true-2001