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Space Jam's 1996 website has finally been updated
...25 years after launching.
New site: https://www.spacejam.com/ https://www.spacejam.com/
It seems the developers understand the legacy of the original site, as you can still access it: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
- desktopninja 6y agoJust doesn't feel the same. Should have been: https://www.spacejam.com/2021/
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- emayljames 6y agoYep. Is a very sneeky move. Tells me how incredibly awful the film is.
- joezydeco 6y agoSequel comes out this summer.
- onion2k 6y agoThat's more frequently than I update my website.
- joshmanders 6y agoAs sad as I am to see such a website update, the new movie doesn't look half bad. As a big SpaceJam fan, I'm excited for it.
- emayljames 6y agoYeah, it looks whole bad!.
- geocrasher 6y agoI think the bigger news is that there's a remake, and it looks great. I never did see the original. Might have to change that!
- MisterBiggs 6y agoOld site is still accessible: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ I think my favorite part is you can download the original trailer in a crisp 160x120 and 8 fps https://www.spacejam.com/1996/cmp/jamcentral/trailerframes.html https://www.spacejam.com/1996/cmp/jamcentral/trailerframes.h...
- tombert 6y ago> It's 7.5 megs, it's Quicktime, and it's worth it. I can't say I disagree. I got substantially more entertainment downloading this and watching the potato-quality trailer than I did actually watching Space Jam.
- hughw 6y agoHow come my Big Sur MBP can't play it? It can play the audio, but no video.
- jibbers 6y agoDownload IINA and use it instead of QuickTime Player.
- skavi 6y agoIINA and VLC are great, but I prefer QuickTime when it works, just because the scrubbing is so incredibly smooth. Are there any other players available with scrubbing as smooth as QT?
- tombert 6y agoI just loaded it with ffplay, and it worked fine. According to ffprobe, it's just using raw PCM for the audio channel, which would explain why the audio still works. I don't know when Quicktime stopped supporting the Cinepak codec.
- happymellon 6y agoApple depricate everything, including codecs. Get VLC.
- ivraatiems 6y agoI guess they won't need https://www.spacejam2.com/ https://www.spacejam2.com/ after all.
- elamje 6y agoThat’s amazing.
- markdown 6y agoWow, the Space Jam 2 trailer is riveting!
- rtx 6y agoThey tried, its better than buy this domain.
- fossuser 6y agoHa - that's great. They went through the work to make some shitty jam to sell to make it harder for WB to argue they're squatting on their IP. I'm glad WB just used their existing site.
- cbozeman 6y agoLOL, wow... she even looks like an insufferable asshole...
- ExcavateGrandMa 6y agooh well js is a dependency now...
- don-code 6y agoAbout 12 years ago, some friends and I ended up rewatching the original Space Jam. 30 minutes into the movie, somebody exclaimed "THE WEBSITE IS STILL UP!" - and we promptly changed movie night over to trawling the website, laughing at the design. Keep in mind these were peak Web 2.0 days. I'm glad that the 1996 website is preserved in some official capacity, but there are two things that we won't get back: the joy of hogging the phone line for an hour to download a 7.5mb trailer, and now the joy of surreptitiously finding the site untouched.
- laurent123456 6y agoWeb 2.0 was when JavaScript, Ajax and all that started to be used more heavily, so it was 2000 something. This is web 1.0 I guess.
- frosted-flakes 6y ago12 years ago was 2013.
- Thorrez 6y ago12 years ago was 2009. Web 1.0 was from ~1991 to ~2004. So the original Space Jam site was Web 1.0. Web 2.0 was from ~2004 onward. So 2009, when don-code had this movie/website party with his friends was Web 2.0 days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
- frosted-flakes 6y agoYou're right. I subtracted the wrong way.
- culopatin 6y agoAre you living in 2025?
- frosted-flakes 6y ago
- rbanffy 6y agoDoes the new one work with Netscape 2?
- saint_angels 6y agoI feel that even for 1996 the original website was very cool(planet buttons circling around the logo and all that). I wish designers had some fun designing the new page instead of trying to make it look slick
- _fat_santa 6y agoI would have loved if they kept the original design. Update the designs but keep the navigation and shape the same as the OG page.
- ChrisArchitect 6y agoGosh I was about to freak out if they dropped the '96 version. Legendary site
- nolok 6y agoI'm willing to bet this new updated site with javascript events everywhere and three different third party script integration will either stop working or disappear before the original 1996 version. I'm glad they kept a copy of the original online
- mxbck 6y agoFun fact: the new site loads only about 1s faster than it did in 1996: https://mxb.dev/blog/space-jam/ https://mxb.dev/blog/space-jam/
- dang 6y agoIf curious, past threads: Space Jam's 1996 website is still alive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23709016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23709016 - July 2020 (266 comments) Space Jam (1996) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22216203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22216203 - Feb 2020 (1 comment) Someone is still maintaining the Space Jam website - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20473522 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20473522 - July 2019 (21 comments) Space Jam 2014 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6923533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6923533 - Dec 2013 (1 comment) "Space Jam" Website Still Online - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5317068 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5317068 - March 2013 (15 comments) "Space Jam" movie website, untouched since 1996 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2050807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2050807 - Dec 2010 (30 comments)
- kristopolous 6y agoWatching that made me realize that Warner Bros now owns Hanna Barbera. Other than Who Framed Roger Rabbit, has there ever been another Disney/WB crossover?
- rozenmd 6y agoOut of curiosity, I ran both versions of the site against Google Lighthouse (hosted on https://OnlineOrNot.com https://OnlineOrNot.com): SpaceJam 1996: - Largest Contentful Paint: 2763ms - Total Page Size: 131 KiB - Third-party resources size: 71 KiB New SpaceJam: - Largest Contentful Paint: 9340ms - Total Page Size: 1.4 MiB - Third-party resources size: 100 KiB
- mprovost 6y agoDamn now I have to update the URL on my resume.
- slmjkdbtl 6y agosince the old space jam website is a classic geocity style site that stays on, kinda hope the new movie was shot in that aesthetics, and keep the old website aesthetics but swap the links