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Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by user3939382 »

xiii1408 wrote: post #32

My grandmom legit still uses Netscape dial-up as her ISP. She lives in a very rural county in Tennessee, and there are no DSL, cable, or fiber options. Her house is unfortunately also down in a valley, so there's no cell phone reception, although there's reasonable 5G service if you walk up to the top of a nearby hill. Perhaps Skylink will be an option soon, although not yet. My parents bought her a Kindle a while ba…

I would make a deal with a friend or neighbor who gets 5G reception on top of the hill. Connect a 5G modem to a Ubiquiti point-to-point antenna set that beams the connection to the house at the bottom (they have different products depending on the distance).

That may violate the TOS of the original connection but probably wouldn’t come up.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by JohnJamesRambo »

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.

It’s completely beautiful to me. Just the information you need and no bs.

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Post by mypalmike »

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.

I still use the verb "mapquesting" when referring to online maps. It gets a laugh every once in a while.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by ComputerGuru »

gremlinsinc wrote: post #36

Politically I lean left, so my take from my view is the articles so far I've read are almost 90s like as they're much more just the facts and less spin. (Of course that's cause it's mostly just a wrapper around reuters and ap news feeds) It's kind of refreshing. I usually read news from news, politics, conservative, and socialist, and libertarian subs on reddit to get an idea how ppl think about what's going on from…

BBC is mostly like that. They have the decency to put “analyst takes” after an hr in the news article and to feature multiple opinions. And you can just read the top “just the facts” section.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

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.

After getting through the order-of-magnitude slower cookie consent page, yes.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by cjamesd »

I wonder if all the traffic from HN every few years justifies the continued existence of these sites to the owners (unknowingly, not sure how granular they might be in their traffic analysis). Kind of like patronage at a museum.

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Post by karlshea »

edgyquant wrote: post #23
DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

And that was around the time the CMS was really getting mainstream (instead of Frontpage). So then you had to go digging through a million templates trying to wrap the right thing with your 3x3 table.
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