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This takes me back to the days of forum signatures, planetrenders.com, pixel fonts with 1px strokes, making emoticons (not emojis) on deviantArt, BBCode and mak
by junon 5y ago
This takes me back to the days of forum signatures, planetrenders.com, pixel fonts with 1px strokes, making emoticons (not emojis) on deviantArt, BBCode and making long-winded posts on VBulletin/PhpBB boards with the top three posts "reserved for later use".
Man I wish I could go back.
- bluedino 5y ago"Under Construction" images, rotating skull and fire GIFs...
- klaussilveira 5y ago> pixel fonts with 1px strokes Nostalgia kicked in hard.
- grishka 5y agoUserbars!
- simook 5y agoI too miss those days. What's stopping us?
- sbarre 5y agoWe're all older and we need reading glasses now? ;-)
- systemvoltage 5y agoI used to "hand-craft" HTML. Literally, writing it and no templates so each page is unique. Gallery page was manually updated. If I kinda deeply think about it - I post may be one post every 2 months. Why the hell do I need a blogging CMS or static site generator, etc? Just craft a HTML page. You can just write it by hand. #header_h1 ...is it that much more work to write <h1>header_h1</h1>? Especially, every once in 2 months!? Each blog post would be custom. And AWESOME and set in stone. "What if I need to update the header on every single page?" Just don't. No need to update the theme ever. It's like writing a hand written letter, once you put the ink down, it's done. Mail it.
- aparks517 5y agoI've been doing this for a while and it's great. If you know a few tricks (optional closing tags, for example), writing HTML by hand can actually be rather pleasant. Go for it!
- systemvoltage 5y agoI used to copy html from the previous page and then modify as necessary. Overtime it evolved and got cooler! But, there was no need to go back and update old posts. I think charm about this is severely underrated as seen by the downvotes.
- unicornporn 5y agoSome people still do this. http://john.ankarstrom.se/html/ http://john.ankarstrom.se/html/
- reaperducer 5y agoSome surprisingly large tech companies still to this.
- dualogy 5y agoI don't even disagree, but even people who couldn't get "What if I need to update the header on every single page" out of their heads just embraced framesets and "server-side includes aka shtml" (and the early highly-limited css) and called it a day. Without CMS etc
- pak 5y agoYou'd probably enjoy this collage of GeoCities vibes: https://www.cameronsworld.net/ https://www.cameronsworld.net/
- squiggleblaz 5y agoUnlike Geocities, that site is a masterful work of design! (And the wayback machine links are broken today due to a planned power outage.)
- TimTheTinker 5y agoWow, that's really cool! What I want to know is, how did people make all those amazing 3D rotating animated gifs back then? Did they use 3d modeling software?
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- dualogy 5y agoPopular shareware proggies like "Xara3D". Don't think they'd qualify as modeling software. They had basic rotate/translate/scale transform routines in them plus glitzy effects. (Note "shareware" usually meant cracked as far as youthful hobbyist website building from basements and bedrooms was concerned.)
- TazeTSchnitzel 5y agoThere were some people who made 3D animated gifs of diverse subjects for a living (e.g. The Animation Factory). I am sure they used real 3D modelling, animation and rendering software for that.
- junon 5y agoWow this is gorgeous.
- aba_cz 5y agoYou know what's interesting? You are not alone. Something Awful forums still have most of these things and people are even paying for that in the year 2021 :D
- rhacker 5y agoThat's still around? I don't even remember my username.
- unicornporn 5y agoDeviantart? Seems you're in the wrong millennium? Deviantart started in 2000 and at that time I fondly remember us making fun of 90s web design by creating mock sites with 88x31 graphics. In -97 I remember it being all the rage though. :) Three, four or five years may not sound like a lot of time, but the web was changing at a pretty rapid pace back then.
- username91 5y ago88x31s were still alive and well on early deviantART: https://www.deviantart.com/fractalmbrown/art/Baby-deviantART-v1-20946738 https://www.deviantart.com/fractalmbrown/art/Baby-deviantART...
- pineconewarrior 5y agoYes! This is how I got my start in design. So many Photoshop tutorials that started with Render Clouds. Haha!
- faeyanpiraat 5y agoAnd then you had like ps 3 and the effect in the next step required version 4 or something
- MrLeap 5y agoclouds -> difference clouds a few times -> invert -> ctrl+L and compress = lightning is still a recipe in my muscle memory.
- 101008 5y agoHa, exactly!
- roland35 5y agoCan't forget albino black sheep and homestar runner!
- rhacker 5y agoBALEETED
- dannyw 5y agoPost reserved for future use.