SpaceX (https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/spacex-2002) is the one that really struck a chord with me. Not because of the design itself, but because it shows just how old the company already is, while only stepping into mainstream spotlight fairly recently.
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#32Why aren’t they in order by year? Also, the page buttons at the bottom aren’t working for me (I’m using safari on iphone x). Nice site altogether :)
Thank you for bug notification. On the desktop you can use filters by years. We are now working on the new version of Web Design Museum where it will be possible to filter sites by years also on mobile phones.
Except on Firefox/MacOS, once you select a year, you can't deselect it.
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#33It makes me sad that the web design museum is mostly made up of corporate sites. Companies didn't take the web too seriously in the 90s and early 2000s...at least as it pertains to design. If you wanted to look at good design back then, you went to fray.com, glassdog.com, 0sil8.com, zeldman.com, and others I don't remember. Oh boy those were the days...
Fortunately Fray has all the old site up as an archive[0]. Also can't forget k10k.com and everything they linked to. [0] http://fray.com/index-old.shtml
Thanks for linking this!
It's great that, for how avant garde this stuff was, it still works great in modern browsers.
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#34Looking at these older websites (for me thats 1996—2002) I remember spending a lot of my time on figuring out how they really worked underneath it all. It was truly an exciting time where the differences in design and style for websites were big. Today, you don't really see personal websites anymore, and things have somehow become streamlined and pretty much just standard. There is hardly any wow effect on the web an…
"you don't really see personal websites anymore, "
we can thank blogs (blogspot/blogger/etc)and then social media for that.
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#35These sites are better lookin compared to their modern version. The facebook pic in the top banner is cool how it fades. Why is modern design better? It is just the mobile aspect?
Wow furthermore apparently that guy on the logo is Al Pacino
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#36Note if any maintainers are here: some of the captures, like Habbo.com, are done with ClearType enabled, when it was in fact only available from 2006 with IE7.
The blocky text rendering was a significant part of the look and feel of those websites.
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#37It is impressive how design has changed thru the years. Just compare the 1996 Space Jam web https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/space-jam-1996 with its current design https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
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#38It makes me sad that the web design museum is mostly made up of corporate sites. Companies didn't take the web too seriously in the 90s and early 2000s...at least as it pertains to design. If you wanted to look at good design back then, you went to fray.com, glassdog.com, 0sil8.com, zeldman.com, and others I don't remember. Oh boy those were the days...
Oh wow, glassdog.com that brings back some memories!
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#39And boom, you are old.
Shhh. The nostalgia already did that. You didn't need to say it, too!
I still really like some of the design trends back then. I think a lot of it was because they only had to work on desktop.
I also like those old isometric pixel drawings that were so popular. It was fun to play with as a kid because you could pretty easily follow along with paint, albeit with a lot lower quality.
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#40k10k.com! Used to spend hours browsing that back in the day. Some seriously good design despite how basic the tools were.
And pixel fonts for the win.
I’m glad I no longer have to wait for Flash to finish loading, or to figure out the navigation of whatever site I’ve landed on, but things are less interesting now.