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The Technology of Nostalgia

• Crinus 8y ago
  > the browser APIs necessary to make this "90s" effect possible, and when they were first shipped ... In 2019 it only takes a few lines of code to do the kind of creative things we struggled with in 1999. Uh, none of the mentioned APIs are necessary to put trailing stars at the mouse pointer (i mean, it is a "90s" effect after all, the hint about the necessity of these post 2010s APIs is in the name) and in fact i cannot even think why they'd be necessary in the first place. I made such silly effects back in the 90s myself and there was no struggle at all, especially the trail stuff is ridiculously simple and i think you can even do it in Netscape 4.x with a few lines of code.