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1.0 is a bit of an arbitrary distinction (especially since it's a term only applied in retrospect, no one called anything "Web 1.0" at the time). But there's de
by ryanbrunner 5y ago
1.0 is a bit of an arbitrary distinction (especially since it's a term only applied in retrospect, no one called anything "Web 1.0" at the time). But there's definitely two distinct periods - one of which is what you're describing where styling was pretty minimal and many sites looked more or less like the browser defaults, but also a distinct period prior to "Web 2.0" where styling was overused even compared to today, and stuff like flash, image maps, frames, etc were fairly common.
- calvinmorrison 5y agoyep, nobody is bringing up marquees, horrible gradient background, unreadable bright blue text on yellow backgrounds, flashing GIFs and all the other atrocities. Plus the endless "coming soon" and "under construction" pages
- BeefWellington 5y agoI mean, those distractions haven't really gone away, they've just been replaced with advertising.
- navjack27 5y agoThat's aesthetic and not defined rules