And apparently not suffering under the HN load!
Dr. Quinn official website from 1998, still online
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#12I miss seeing really responsive and performant websites. I feel like browsing the web nowadays no matter what I end up downloading huge tracking bundles and running a ton of javascript.
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#13OMG why is that button blurry? If I were a kid today I'd wonder why old people ever bothered watching television or browsing the internet at all. At the same time, I probably wouldn't even notice that famous Beatles recordings were recorded in mono.
at 858 bytes, even if you were able to connect at a full 56k connection on your modem (many people could only get some lower fraction, like 33.6 or 28.8 because of line noise), it would still take almost an eigth of a second to download the button if your connection did nothing but that.
Designing for the web in the 90's and early 2000's was so much more a matter of picking the right trade-offs to make. Shitty trade-offs like "should I make this button worse to shave off 100 bytes? By itself it won't matter, but if I do it to all the butons and icons, that first page load might be a whole second or two faster..."
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#14Radiohead's "OK Computer" was recorded in Jane Seymour's mansion. You didn't need to know that, but now you do.
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#15This predates everything I know http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
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#16My mom loved this show.
I watched with my mom, along with Touched By An Angel.
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#17Killer layout. Love it.
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#18I don't know how many of you watched this show back in the day or even remember it, but the website has been created around 1998 and it's still online in its original form! Similar case as the old-school Space Jam website, a blast from the past :-)
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#19OMG why is that button blurry? If I were a kid today I'd wonder why old people ever bothered watching television or browsing the internet at all. At the same time, I probably wouldn't even notice that famous Beatles recordings were recorded in mono.
> OMG why is that button blurry?
It isn't even their doing, it is a PayPal asset served from a PayPal domain (one referenced by their developer docs so not something just pretending to be them).
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#20Somehow the Dole/Kemp site from 96 is still going: http://www.dolekemp96.org/main.htm Someone must have a decent list, some kinda of "Awesome 90s" list on GitHub or something?
Seeing that motion-blurred animated GIF banner at the bottom gave me an intense nostalgia rush, I made a good living making those banners for a year or 2 back in the late 90s. $50-150 per banner ($25/frame), doing a few each evening, with a month or 2 backlog in the queue.
It was a fun and easily-profitable era if you knew even the basics of web/graphics.