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There should be a whole website about failed 90/00s web technologies that didn't take off.
by xdfgh1112 4y ago
There should be a whole website about failed 90/00s web technologies that didn't take off.
- justinator 4y agopets-cemetery.com
- xdfgh1112 4y agoOff the top of my head: VRML, Gopher, AOL, CompuServe, MSN, the blink and marquee tags, XHTML and the semantic web, ActiveX, VBScript, newsgroups
- bruce511 4y agoWhile those are (mostly) dead now, it would be unfair to say they never took off. In their day some of these were huge,and enormously influential on what we have today. News (NNTP) basically _was_ the Internet before HTTP came along, and still exists today, albeit in niche form. I still check News every day. Your standard seems to be "things that were one popular, but have been replaced." whereas the 90's were full of ideas that literally never took off. Like cuecat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat And don't get me started on the blink tag. That was huge, if anything, overused. That was activly killed (for good reason) because it made most Web pages beyond horrible. For some reason non-computer people weren't happy unless like half the site was blinking all the time. It was beyond terrible. Frankly the jury is still out on VR headsets (an idea from the 60s that simply won't die.)
- 7jjjjjjj 4y agoThe marquee tag isn't dead: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/marquee#browser_compatibility https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...
- srcreigh 4y agoBy now flash and Java applets are in this category too Edit: never mind, these are dead now, but they definitely took off in their day.
- josephcsible 4y agoJust because something's dead now doesn't mean that it never took off.
- srcreigh 4y agoTrue, my bad.
- jdub 4y agoWAP (which I hasten to say meant something else in the 90s, probably to its detriment)