It’s funny how sites used to play music all the time and now people are on the phone with the FBI to report any site with audio
We hated it back then too.
Elevator.js (2015)
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#42It’s funny how sites used to play music all the time and now people are on the phone with the FBI to report any site with audio
websites are now meant to be "content" for google or social media. Social media are allowed all the permissions, websites no.
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#43Why that audio? Scared, I could have spilled some fine coffee!
Yeah, fuck this audio, it literally made me rip my earbuds out because it was so loud and unexpected. Straight up asshole design.
The audio is the whole point of the library. Otherwise you could just use
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#45A very cute bit of coding. But: I've always wondered who uses these "back to the top" buttons, and why? Until quite recently I hardly ever had reason to go back to the top of the page—I was much more likely to click a link or click the back button—and if I did a quick tap of the home key or flick of the touchscreen usually did the trick. Conveniently, both gestures work even if you've not gotten all the way down to t…
I think it was more of a thing in a bygone era when scroll wheels and swiping didn't have that inertia effect to get you to the top efficiently.
Nowadays you just swipe down fast once and the inertia gets you to the top but it used to once not be like that, and you had to thumb your screen 15 times to free solo your way to the top.
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#46It’s funny how sites used to play music all the time and now people are on the phone with the FBI to report any site with audio
I miss the whimsy of the old web. I suspect even the folks who participated in that whimsy and now turn their nose up at a site with an odd design, or sound are to blame. Whimsy is still out there to some extent but just not as prevalent.
In case anyone wants to sniff around for some, there's some left in personal sites, often with an explicitly nostalgic vibe:
https://yesterweb.org/webring/members.html
https://www.kickscondor.com http://tetrageddon.com/ wild net art projects
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#48It’s funny how sites used to play music all the time and now people are on the phone with the FBI to report any site with audio
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#49There's a slight pause between when you click and the elevator starts rising.
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I miss the whimsy of the old web. I suspect even the folks who participated in that whimsy and now turn their nose up at a site with an odd design, or sound are to blame. Whimsy is still out there to some extent but just not as prevalent.
In case anyone wants to sniff around for some, there's some left in personal sites, often with an explicitly nostalgic vibe: https://yesterweb.org/webring/members.html https://www.kickscondor.com http://tetrageddon.com/ wild net art projects
These types of links are why I'm still hopeful for the internet as a platform. What a hit of crazy weirdness out of some random persons brain, just excellent.