It's not entirely gone: https://www.lingscars.com/
A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
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Re: A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
#22This makes me oddly nostalgic for the days of painstakingly creating animated GIFs frame-by-frame. My animated GIF magnum opus, ca. 1996: https://www.damninteresting.com/temp/globe_spin3.gif
I always wondered who was making the images and gifs
Re: A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
#23I think I finally woke up to the realization that nobody differentiates between the 'Web' and the 'Internet' anymore. The Web is the Internet to most people now.
Re: A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
#24and here I am most impressed that the music turns off when you go to another tab.
still it does remind me how long ago some tv shows and such really were. just seeing an Enterprise E reminded me that that show ended before the Internet as many think of it took off
Re: A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
#25I think I finally woke up to the realization that nobody differentiates between the 'Web' and the 'Internet' anymore. The Web is the Internet to most people now.
The WWW or Web, along with email, telnet, ftp and dsniff are applications that run on top of the internet.
Re: A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
#26It's not entirely gone: https://www.lingscars.com/
That was a fun rabbit hole. I guess she retired today and gave the business to her staff! Congrats Ling!
Re: A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
#27This makes me oddly nostalgic for the days of painstakingly creating animated GIFs frame-by-frame. My animated GIF magnum opus, ca. 1996: https://www.damninteresting.com/temp/globe_spin3.gif
Or how far removed sites were from current flat-pixel designs, where menu's could be embossed text on slabs of deeply veined marble (and you had to carefully craft the html to make all the image snippets fit seamlessly).
Re: A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
#28Nice site.
I was there, it wasn't that great, most of it was about Monty Python or how much people hated Barney the Dinosaur. The modern internet is much more expressive for a great many more people that geocities ever was.
Re: A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
#29I think I finally woke up to the realization that nobody differentiates between the 'Web' and the 'Internet' anymore. The Web is the Internet to most people now.
I think this was true several years ago but these days with such pervasive mobile app use I'm not so sure. I think people think Facebook is part of "the Internet" but they are getting there through an app, not the Web.
Re: A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
#30A Love Letter to the World Wide Web of Old