Man, this was the time when me (and every computer literary teen) fancied himself a dev and webdesigner. And we were like, considered geniuses too - for being able to code some PHP and copy some cool designs
:3
good times
Web Design Museum
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Re: Web Design Museum
#52Similar to another site, http://www.versionmuseum.com
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#53It 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
K10K is on the museum's page: https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/kaliber10000-2003
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the other hand, Web standards makes it easier to use the Web.
That must be why I have 3 dofferent browsers installed in case a website doesn't work on one of them.
When was the last time you really needed that? I haven’t had to in years, and I work in .gov. The only thing I see is needing to enable Flash and that was awhile ago.
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#55It 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...
... or 2advanced.com, gmunk.com, tokyoplastic.com and other Flash wizards.
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#56Looking 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.
Yeah, maybe also mobile...and the "news feed"-ification of the web, too.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
That must be why I have 3 dofferent browsers installed in case a website doesn't work on one of them.
When was the last time you really needed that? I haven’t had to in years, and I work in .gov. The only thing I see is needing to enable Flash and that was awhile ago.
I see it frequently in testing. But then, I'm on the web dev side.
Sometimes if I see a web site I think might be too ambitious, I'll open it on each of my testing machines in different browsers, and about 70% of the time, my hunch is right, and it either fails on one or more, or the output looks significantly/unusably different.
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#58Well now I just feel old. Thank you.
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#59To me, what this illustrates is that too many companies today don't understand there is a big difference between a web developer and a web designer.
Companies that have both are the ones with the sites that stand the test of time.
Re: Web Design Museum
#60It 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...
Thanks for the nostalgia trip. That's a very special era to me personally, and shaped my entire life and career since then.
I'm a very nostalgic person in general (due to health issues now making me face mortality etc) and I think the late 90s online scene was the most incredible "scenes" I've ever experienced. Everyone was a hacker, and everything was customised and modified and tweaked to within an inch of its life. These days it's a mission to even theme your OS to how you want it, but in those days running anything "stock" was almost a crime.
It's a real shame to look at where our interfaces with technology went. From the modern web to modern OS design to modern app design, it's all just so illogical and... shallow? Like a celebrity's fake face and smile. I'm not sure what the word is.
Linux seems to be one of the last places where you can find efficient and intelligent design (most of the time :P), and an encouragement to customise and modify to your liking.