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Whenever Bebop comes up it hits right in the feels. The future sure panned out different than how I imagined it would be when I was a kid staying up late watching this timeless classic. At the time I just thought it was cool and conceptual, never realizing how much the vibes were on point. I get it now. See You Space Cowboy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03qBqP2I4p8
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>I think being simple and content focused are two of them. You mean you don't like newsletter subscription pop-ups? Or a virtual assistant chat window on the corner? Or auto-playing videos that follow you when you scroll down? Or a choice between "Accept all cookies" and "Learn more?"
You can close the auto-playing video by simply waiting 10 seconds for the “x close” button to appear, which is 5px high and 12px wide.
And that is just the visible part, actual clickable area is 1px by 1px so even when you correctly click on the "x", you don't actually close it.
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Sites mostly didn't look this good though, they were even more garish colors and 'under construction' banners
Guilty as charged. Also don’t forget about frames, marquee text, and that smoking skeleton wearing sunglasses gif. :)
The second domain I ever registered was for my ex-wife’s cartoon fan site for a particular Disney cartoon series back in ‘98. Her drive to digitize stills from the show and write character bios and episode summaries was something I never understood, but she was certainly dedicated. I’d imagine all of that kind of compulsion ends up on Wikia sites and such today, but back then it was do-it-yourself. She was writing HT…
I remember in the early wikipedia days, Jimmy Wales complaining (in a good natured way) how a bunch of anime series had more pages devoted to them on wikipedia then World War II.
Aside from the Cowboy Bebop nostalgia hit, this site is a great example of how clear, creative, and fun sites were in the late 1990s. While I struggle to identify the many reasons why I think sites looked better back then, I think being simple and content focused are two of them.