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Not related to the post. I am genuinely curious. Does PG make his own titles? And why is it a gif instead of a regular text? I know the site has remained stuck
by shri_krishna 3y ago
Not related to the post. I am genuinely curious. Does PG make his own titles? And why is it a gif instead of a regular text? I know the site has remained stuck in the 90s kind of web design and I quite like it. However, I fail to understand why the title has to be a gif instead of text. Is it autogenerating it in the backend or did someone actually write it out in some graphical software, exported the title to a gif and then hardcoded it into the HTML? So many questions LMFAO
- tim333 3y agoIt's auto generated using ImageMagick. A lot of that is because he wrote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb in 1995 when things were done like that and then used the same tech for his personal site.
- shri_krishna 3y agoThanks for this gem! > A lot of that is because he wrote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb in 1995 when things were done like that and then used the same tech for his personal site Makes sense considering the first version of CSS did not roll out up until 1996 at the very least.