Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s

Post by marban » Fri, Mar 02, 2018, 10:30 PM UTC

baby wrote: post #124

starsinspace wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When talking about this, people often like to joke about the webdesign back then. But the personal websites had personality. Facebook profiles feel like government forms to me... "here, fill in this standardized array of fields with your personal data."

I need to write a love letter to Flash and how it made every website look like a christmas tree. There was so much life in there, it was a race to dynamism when we didn’t know how to make things dynamic. Now it’s all about flat design and static pages and don’t make the users learn a new UI and use the same CSS framework everybody else is using.

Post by orasis » Fri, Mar 02, 2018, 10:32 PM UTC

Post by oldcynic » Fri, Mar 02, 2018, 10:34 PM UTC

vbezhenar wrote: post #80

Legion wrote: post #54

I miss this era of the Internet. It represents a period of time where average people used the open Web to publish , rather than post on a corporation's platform. Obviously there's been plenty of development since then that I would not give back, but people favoring publishing their own sites rather than posting on social media is not incompatible with those developments. That part didn't need to be lost.

Are you sure that they were average people? In my experience, average people only started to publish things on Web after blog platforms enabled them to do so. The only people who published in the web at that time were people with technical background (or people who had enough free time and will to learn). HTML is not easy for someone, who's not computer-savvy and a quest to publish and support your website might frig…

Post by 11thEarlOfMar » Fri, Mar 02, 2018, 10:36 PM UTC

Post by tallblondeguy » Fri, Mar 02, 2018, 10:37 PM UTC