A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

Post by icelancer » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 8:46 AM UTC

bartread wrote: post #33

samizdis wrote: post #31

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Oh, the shame - but I will out myself. In the aftermath of the Barings bank collapse in 1995, and its purchase for £1 by ING, its private equity arm (Baring Private Equity Partners) - which was neither directly connected with the bank's activities, nor affected by them - wanted to ringfence itself from ING influence. It decided to commission a website and, I am still not sure how, I was asked to pitch for the job. I…

I had a look. Wasn't as bad as I expected based on what you'd said. In fact, for a 90s corporate website it looks fine. Nice job winning the pitch!

Post by rmbyrro » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 9:43 AM UTC

dusted wrote: post #38

duxup wrote: post #14

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Algorithms and the dev community today might freak out themselves if someone used one too many divs, or a bit to much JavaScript… God help them if they saw the blink tag…

There's never been used as much javascript in the history of time as right now, and it's never been doing as little as it does right now :P Because.. why use a perfectly good browser to render your html when you can implement another, lesser browser within the browser in javascript and have THAT render your html, but badly. Also, divs and css for layouts suck, TABLES is the way to go :)

Post by NovaVeles » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 9:45 AM UTC

chasing wrote: post #5

This is amazing. I miss the days when the web truly felt like a vast tapestry of people energetically letting their freak flags fly. Pave paradise, put up... an algorithm to maximize engagement.

Post by _zetta » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 10:03 AM UTC

taejavu wrote: post #39

jszymborski wrote: post #21

Ok, this is a long shot, but if any forum is likely to know, it's HN. I first got my start in web development when I was around 8 (early 2000s) thanks to a very large (or at least it was to an 8 year old) purple book on HTML. There was one passing mention of how animated GIFs might be added to websites with an IMG tag. The example of the animated GIF they showed (they exploded the frames) reminded me of this image [0…

I got you fam: https://www.amazon.com/Yourself-Publishing-Professional-Refe...

Post by jetbalsa » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 10:24 AM UTC

dusted wrote: post #38

duxup wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Algorithms and the dev community today might freak out themselves if someone used one too many divs, or a bit to much JavaScript… God help them if they saw the blink tag…

There's never been used as much javascript in the history of time as right now, and it's never been doing as little as it does right now :P Because.. why use a perfectly good browser to render your html when you can implement another, lesser browser within the browser in javascript and have THAT render your html, but badly. Also, divs and css for layouts suck, TABLES is the way to go :)