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Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by daguava » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 4:41 AM UTC

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…

Ignoring all the problems you had, this is so sweet I can't stand it - your grandmom has an excellent grand-daughter/son <3

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by basch » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 4:44 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.

Compare that to the garbage that is the default msn page in Edge. I’m disappointed Microsoft isn’t using their new tab page to be more educational. So many scammy ads.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by drewzero1 » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 4:51 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.

My dad recently had me help him remove "Maps Galaxy" which had taken over his Chrome homepage, and which he had accidentally picked it up trying to get to Mapquest (which he apparently still uses regularly).

He is also the kind of person who wants an iPhone because he was impressed by the quality and capabilities of the Apple ][ computers he used in college. It's difficult for me to understand, but I have to respect that kind of loyalty in our rapidly-changing digital world.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by drewzero1 » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 4:53 AM UTC

swiley wrote: post #28

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.

I was surprised not to see the old interactive Flash ads like "Swat the fly for a better insurance rate!"

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by DaiPlusPlus » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 5:05 AM UTC

karlshea wrote: post #49

edgyquant wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It was fun breaking sites with XSS vulnerabilities (i.e. most of them) where entering into an unsanitized user-content editor would break the entire website layout.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by forgotmypw17 » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 5:12 AM UTC

coolreader18 wrote: post #21

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

Agree @mods

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by ma2rten » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 5:14 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.

I think it what makes it look dated are the shadows and gradients. If they got rid of those it would look pretty modern.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by mike_d » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 6:10 AM UTC

ficklepickle wrote: post #31

I was curious if I could find anything out about their stack. Turns out they are using something called Apache Traffic Server[0]. > Formerly a commercial product, Yahoo! donated it to the Apache Foundation [0] http://trafficserver.apache.org/

Traffic Server is a caching HTTP server originally built by Inktomi.

At one point a good majority of the "internet" was served by AOLServer, a multithreaded TCL scriptable server written by NaviSoft and acquired by AOL.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by King-Aaron » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 6:24 AM UTC

aaah, the good old days of 980px wide websites.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by philistine » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 6:36 AM UTC

mypalmike wrote: post #44

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.

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