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Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by coolreader18 » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:32 AM UTC

I feel like the first character of this title should be lowercased, URLs traditionally are and I thought it said "LSP" instead of "ISP"

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by thwarted » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:33 AM UTC

jtchang wrote: post #4

Holy those pages load fast. Design feels slightly dated but the speed is fantastic.

And all the SPA frameworks were created to make pages load faster for a better experience, and now the original, simpler stuff is a much faster loading experience.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by edgyquant » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:34 AM UTC

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #14

statenjason wrote: post #8

That loaded fast. Also, seeing the network request for background gradients takes me back to an era of CSS I don't miss. Anyone remember the hacks for drop shadows and rounded corners?

> Anyone remember the hacks for drop shadows and rounded corners? Originally it was kinda simple: just a 3x3 with stretched images in the outer cells, then -itis. Fortunately we rarely needed 9 nested elements - a common trick was to create a 2000x2000px-sized PNG containing the top-left, top, and left-edge border and then another for the other side and make that a background image - the only problem was the lack of…

I remember building rounded containers this way, it’s been so long I had forgotten how much border-radius has saved us from those little hells.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by Igelau » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:34 AM UTC

jandrese wrote: post #19

Some people are going to call the design dated, but to me that kind of layout is timeless. Just the facts and it has good information density. But LOL that the "Maps" link goes to mapquest.com. In other news Mapquest still exist.

Needs more frames!

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by human » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:35 AM UTC

Looking at this design triggers so much nostalgia. Reminds me of my early days learning html.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by slater » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:44 AM UTC

statenjason wrote: post #8

That loaded fast. Also, seeing the network request for background gradients takes me back to an era of CSS I don't miss. Anyone remember the hacks for drop shadows and rounded corners?

"That loaded fast"

welcome to non-garbage HTML! ;)

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by bigiain » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:52 AM UTC

I was sorely disappointed to see that was laid out with divs and css, not tables...

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by swiley » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:53 AM UTC

kivlad wrote: post #18

https://www.compuserve.com is the same thing. Oath/Verizon is keeping these sites on some kind of life support to this day.

Wow that feels so weird seeing spammy headlines with a minimalist layout and knowing it's not broken.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by weird-eye-issue » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:54 AM UTC

thwarted wrote: post #22

jtchang wrote: post #4

Holy those pages load fast. Design feels slightly dated but the speed is fantastic.

And all the SPA frameworks were created to make pages load faster for a better experience, and now the original, simpler stuff is a much faster loading experience.

They are almost always noticeably faster for page loads after the initial one. If they aren't then it was built really, really wrong

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by swiley » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:55 AM UTC

visiblink wrote: post #20

tombert wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have SeaMonkey installed alongside Firefox on my laptop simply because it's kind of fun to browse the web in a browser that sort of looks like the late Netscape Navigator, or early Mozilla browser. It's fun loading a Netscape site in it.

Ditto. While Mozilla shut down the mailing lists this week, there's now an alt.comp.software.seamonkey newsgroup.

It's been a while since I've tried newsgroups. They were already on their way out by the time I was born.

Does gnus still work? Is there a way to connect (preferable with the ability to post) with it for free?

How does one make a newsgroup?