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Talk about rose-colored glasses and "the good ol' days". All I can remember are the animated gifs flash and spinning around on people's pages...
by iansmith_hn 2mo ago
Talk about rose-colored glasses and "the good ol' days". All I can remember are the animated gifs flash and spinning around on people's pages...
- iinnPP 2mo agoThat's what I miss. Some level of personality is desperately missing from modern alternatives.
- classified 2mo agoTrue, but it was all quite harmless. Today's perfectly designed web sites are made by folks who know exactly how to make you addicted to the algorithmic feed and whatnot.
- SpaceL10n 2mo agoPages with personality like that are not just examples of how bad UX can be, they are examples of how UX can be used as an artistic form of self-expression.
- marginalia_nu 2mo agoYou still have that sort of expression on neocities. It's a genuine treat to see what people are building over there. https://neocities.org/browse https://neocities.org/browse
- whstl 2mo agoEven commercial design was interesting and eye-catching back then. Print designers were adapting to the web and there was a tremendous amount of technique, experience and hard work in that first batch. Then the dictatorship of the sameness started, and we somehow ended in a world where everything kinda looks the same but is slightly different in slightly broken ways. Creativity be damned, but also other things like performance, accessibility and user-centricity are now secondary to following fashions.
- drooopy 2mo agoI miss that quite a lot. For the past 20 years the Web has been a sterile wasteland full of minimalist white and grays and 0 personality.
- tacktal 2mo agoI feel bad for you then if this is all you remember about Myspace. I met so many cool people in real life I never would have other wise it would be hard to even count.
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- duxup 2mo agoI could go for some pages that look bad vs the homogenized social media where everyone's page is the same.