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Oh, but how I miss those days... The repeating gif background, using transparent images to separate table cells, the MS FrontPage or Flash menu buttons, the com
by tail_exchange 2y ago
Oh, but how I miss those days... The repeating gif background, using transparent images to separate table cells, the MS FrontPage or Flash menu buttons, the comic sans, the colored scrollbars, the marquees, scrolling status on the bottom of IE, the image links on the bottom of the page for "home" and "contact, the page view counter, JS alerts with welcome messages, and of course the huge collection of fugly gifs with the dancing banana... So nostalgic.
Another thing that we didn't have back in the day was platforms. Nowadays, if you want a page, you either make an account on facebook, squarespace, shopify, etc. Back then there was no such thing, so you needed to learn html and build your website yourself.
- jachee 2y agoThe ever present notification that a page/site was "Under Construction", before we all realized that they're never "done'.
- gamepsys 2y agoThis idea that a website could be 'done' was very much part of the old mentality from software people that software had to be shipped on floppy disc or cd-rom, and you had no guaranteed patch ability after you shipped. The web 2.0 craze was largely about realizing how web is different than old cd-rom based distribution.