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The most OG tag for sure. Raise your hand if you remember guest books, site counters, marquee tags, and using 4 small positioned images to get rounded corners!
by holler 4y ago
The most OG tag for sure.
Raise your hand if you remember guest books, site counters, marquee tags, and using 4 small positioned images to get rounded corners!
- mr_toad 4y agoAnd the ubiquitous ‘under construction’ .gif
- thih9 4y agoAlso, table driven page layout, actual popup windows, DHTML[1] was a thing and applet tag hasn’t been deprecated yet. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_HTML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_HTML
- salmo 4y agoThat reminds me of my days doing shudder ColdFusion and seeing Microsoft Liquid Motion, their short-lived Macromedia Flash competitor. Well and DHTML immediately reminds me of Dreamweaver and trying to make everything compatible with IE and Netscape with a lot of browser detection. I miss the people I worked with back then. But not UI work. As bad as it was, it was less complicated and more stable than it seems to be today. And I don't miss people asking me to make something "more green" that is #0000FF. To paraphrase Spinal Tap: "None. None more green"
- holler 4y agoAh you're right, and how could we forget <frame>(s)?!
- BuildTheRobots 4y agoI can't hear DHTML without thinking DHTML Lemmings[0]. It blew me away 18 years ago and still makes me grin today. [0]: https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/ https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/
- desro 4y agoModals drive me crazy on the modern web -- I wonder why there's been no pushback equivalent to "actual" pop-up blocking
- Rodeoclash 4y agoAnd Web Rings. In fact, I'm surprised considering how ideas simply get recycled (IRC -> Slack) that nobody has tried to reinvent the web ring. I suppose it's the death of self hosted sites that has killed it.
- somat 4y agoThe second best part of webcomics is when they have a links section and you get to see what comics the author likes.
- mathgorges 4y agoI don’t think web rings have been killed, I think they’ve just been eaten by platforms like most of the internet. In most contexts they’ve been replaced by AI driven recommendation engines. Although I discovered a delightful example of a human curated recommendation engine the other day in the form of bandcamp’s `Recomendations` feature :)