I miss these days, thanks for sharing.
The 88x31 GIF Collection
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#32Fair warning: Page 1 transfers about 8.3MB with 1,000+ HTTP requests. And will likely bring back memories of the 90s.
Imagine loading this page in the 90s though! One new HTTP connection at a time, a full TCP handshake. Maybe if you were lucky you were using Netscape which would load up to 4 resources at once!
8MB would take all night on my 2400 baud modem.
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#33Fair warning: Page 1 transfers about 8.3MB with 1,000+ HTTP requests. And will likely bring back memories of the 90s.
This site would benefit greatly from HTTP 2.0, but it's kinda cool to see each banner load one after another.
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#34Fair warning: Page 1 transfers about 8.3MB with 1,000+ HTTP requests. And will likely bring back memories of the 90s.
Yeah, the speed at which it loaded definitely brought back that 90s feeling.
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#35Oh wow. I remember writing my first website and coveting those little banners. All the real websites had them outline their community associations and capabilities. Oh, my website is just a bit of text in some awful arrangement of neon colours that work in every browser? Better have an animated badge for each browser so that the people know, because the people must know! Excellent find!
Yeah, and you don't get the real effect of them outside of 800x600 or 1024x768. They look small here, but were relatively large on pages back then.
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#36That Covid-19 one sure was prescient.
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#37I'd be more nostalgiac for these if Neocities pages didn't continue the trend of creating and sharing them. The bottom of this page offers a common example:
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#38I saw digital blasphemy on there. I checked and it still exists and he's still updating!
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#39I miss this version of the internet :( Everything is so boring now.
Go to https://www.wiby.me
Its a search engine that only indexes minimalist websites. Everything on there looks like its from the 90's.
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#40This takes me back to the days of forum signatures, planetrenders.com, pixel fonts with 1px strokes, making emoticons ( not emojis) on deviantArt, BBCode and making long-winded posts on VBulletin/PhpBB boards with the top three posts "reserved for later use". Man I wish I could go back.
Userbars!