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Re: Web Design Museum

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Post by dan-robertson »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #25
Waterluvian wrote: post #15

Compared to others, the Apple site from 2001 holds up really well.

Funny to see them marketing their machine as a means to copyright infringement.

Buying music on iTunes or CDs and then burning it onto CDs to eg put into hifi systems or car stereos is not copyright infringement. It was a way to play music that was bought online and a way to make mixtapes of legitimately owned music.

Saying that advertising a CD burner is inciting copyright infringement is like saying that advertising a knife’s sharpness is inciting stabbings

Re: Web Design Museum

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Post by fuball63 »

dkyc wrote: post #31

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.

This surprised me too; I had to do a wikipedia lookup to confirm.

Re: Web Design Museum

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Post by fuball63 »

mattkevan wrote: post #40

k10k.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.

I was trying to read up on what this was, it said it was a site focused on pixel perfect design? What does that mean exactly, lots of images, spacers, and pixel fonts?

Re: Web Design Museum

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Post by mrdoob2 »

danielovichdk wrote: post #13

Looking 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…

I don't think you follow the right people/channels. I see a wow effect every week.

Edit: some examples...

http://taotajima.jp/ http://mathis-biabiany.fr/ http://robinmastromarino.com/ https://demos.littleworkshop.fr/track

Re: Web Design Museum

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Post by themodelplumber »

brandonmenc wrote: post #29
madrox wrote: post #28

It 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

Man, people still aren't as creative with their headings (see the simple icon overlap in the iTunes heading) as they were in the days when when you had to use images as headings to even use a unique font.

Even though such capability can be abused, it's kind of depressing to still miss this option in most projects due to time, etc. from a graphic design standpoint.

Re: Web Design Museum

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Post by mattkevan »

fuball63 wrote: post #43
mattkevan wrote: post #40

k10k.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.

I was trying to read up on what this was, it said it was a site focused on pixel perfect design? What does that mean exactly, lots of images, spacers, and pixel fonts?

It was an early webzine and community that showcased cutting edge web & digital design in the late 90s and early 2000s.

For me it fits into the same early 2000s movement pushing the boundaries of digital expression as The Designers’ Republic did in graphic design and Warp Records in Music.

Re: Web Design Museum

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Post by jcelerier »

kartan wrote: post #22

It 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

> The jamminest two minutes of trailer time that ever hit a theater. It's 7.5 megs, it's Quicktime, and it's worth it. Click the graphic to download...

Oh god if only the modern web was 10% as light-hearted as this was

Re: Web Design Museum

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Post by pmlnr »

kickling wrote: post #16
danielovichdk wrote: post #13

Looking 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…

On the other hand, Web standards makes it easier to use the Web.

Sure... and during getting a reasonable HTML5 and CSS3, Javascript went mad, and it still lacks an stdlib...
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