Mars Pathfinder Mission Home Page (1997)
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Mars Pathfinder Mission Home Page (1997)
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Re: Mars Pathfinder Mission Home Page (1997)
#2This is brilliant! "Virtual Reality models and animations galore!"
Quite a slice of history. It's amazing how much the internet has become gentrified since the days when a plain hypertext document sufficed for one of the biggest space agencies in the world.
Re: Mars Pathfinder Mission Home Page (1997)
#3omg, "3d models"!! VRML!!!!! Truly this is a wonder of the era
Re: Mars Pathfinder Mission Home Page (1997)
#4Responsive website ahead of its time
Re: Mars Pathfinder Mission Home Page (1997)
#5Excellent UI/UX for a 1997 website! I wonder if they changed at some point.
Re: Mars Pathfinder Mission Home Page (1997)
#6This is brilliant! "Virtual Reality models and animations galore!" Quite a slice of history. It's amazing how much the internet has become gentrified since the days when a plain hypertext document sufficed for one of the biggest space agencies in the world.
Remember when you could browse the internet on a 56k modem? Can you imagine trying to do that today? "Here download 1meg of JS because i want to have a link, but didn't want to write "
Re: Mars Pathfinder Mission Home Page (1997)
#7I love the link to the "all text" version.
Re: Mars Pathfinder Mission Home Page (1997)
#8This is brilliant! "Virtual Reality models and animations galore!" Quite a slice of history. It's amazing how much the internet has become gentrified since the days when a plain hypertext document sufficed for one of the biggest space agencies in the world.
Remember when you could browse the internet on a 56k modem? Can you imagine trying to do that today? "Here download 1meg of JS because i want to have a link, but didn't want to write "
It's extremely amusing to see someone nostalgically complain about huge JS assets, when every subpage on that site has a 56K *.gif image as a [1], i.e. something that would have taken a full second to download on a 56K connection. Just like 1MB of JS takes about a second to download & render on your current >1MB/s connection.
Back in the day people used to complain about these huge background images just as much as purists today complain about >1MB JS/CSS assets, which given Moore's law & the increase in network speeds works out to be the same thing, relatively speaking.
1. http://mars.nasa.gov/MPF/gif/rca.gif -> 56K =~ 55854 bytes
Re: Mars Pathfinder Mission Home Page (1997)
#9Look at those fantastic loading times, and its not pulling down 1.2mb of cancerscript to make some text appear!
Re: Mars Pathfinder Mission Home Page (1997)
#10Am I the only one to find it a little sad that "oh wow, ${some.website} is still online!" is such a common sentiment? It seems to me that the default should have been for content to persist, and the surprising events should have been content that disappears.
I mean, 1997 is not even twenty years. Nobody expresses surprise that, say, Fight Club is still available to watch - but on the web we seem to expect near-total transience over tiny, tiny timescales.