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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.
By the time I was 17 I literally pirated a million dollars of software.
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.
What's crazy is that blue origin is older.
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
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
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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.
A bit further back (maybe a year or so?), I've also had issues with Youtube and my bank's website. Both of those seem to have been fixed, though.
CDnow 1998 is the best one https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/cdnow-1998
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...
It's a surprise that zeldman isn't on there, his site is still going strong.
What was interesting to see was kottke.org that's been showing up on HN for a long time [0]
For example, I remember the split frame layout (nav on top or left, body in remainder) dominating web layouts for a long, long time -- the CSS float to keep navigation "on top" was really just mimicking that for a lot of people.
Similarly, pop-up windows were such a huge thing for a long time, whether it was for a music player, or for site navigation, or just links opening in little miniature windows meant to be hovered over the main page so that you never "left."
The closest that any of those sites come to capturing the "feel" of the internet in that time for me is probably the Microsoft Games site.
Incidentally, one of them looks really broken: https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/true-is-true-2001