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Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by MiddleEndian »

MagicalEmi wrote: post #106

Oh, hello. This is my website. I'm Emily. I saw the influx of (nice, thank you!) comments on the guestbook, so I checked to see what was up. Yes, I keep the site running and haven't changed very much about it (mostly out of laziness) but I do periodically update it when something new (music, tv. merch, game, etc)happens. So I guess it is only still being updated because the franchise keeps popping up with random new…

The website looks fine on my Palm Phone (720 x 1280 pixels in portrait mode, so slightly less wide than your original 800 px width). Need to pinch to zoom in some parts, but that's standard for any website really.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by ajmurmann »

pastacacioepepe wrote: post #116
ajmurmann wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel we are getting closer and closer to a cyberpunk future, but without all the stuff that made it cool.

Dystopias aren't that fun to actually live in.

I'd prefer many aspects of cyberpunk fiction that we didn't get. Our "cyberdecks" turned out smaller and more omnipresent than in fiction. They are also much more locked down and nobody is hacking anything with them. They ended up mostly attention control machines for the corpos. We didn't get impressive cities with mega buildings/arcologies but instead more sprawl of cookie-cutter town houses. No steamy backalleys in which to eat ramen under neon lights.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by simulo »

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #74
1MachineElf wrote: post #71

When MySpace was popular, you could sometimes stumble upon profiles that looked like this. MySpace's HTML/CSS customization was a great feature.

It was the gateway to a career in software for several people that I know. It's a pity we don't trust users with freedom like that anymore.

Indeed! Great article on that: https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2019/01/30/html-css-and-... "many of us without a computer science background are here because of the ease of starting to write HTML and CSS."

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by kleiba »

tm2t wrote: post #3
kleiba wrote: post #2

Why is this on here? Sorry, I'm missing the context.

Just thought it was interesting—from a design and content perspective—as the site hasn't changed much since 1999 and it still feels like “ye ol' web”.

Ah, okay thanks for clarifying! I thought perhaps there's some special significance to this site that I wasn't aware of.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by whstl »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #84
tokai wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People should just stop making web pages for mobile. So many times I have had to force the desktop version of a page to actually get what I'm there for.

I think the real dead end is making websites for both mobile and desktop. They are simply too different to ever have any real hope of producing something that translates well to both without hopelessly crippling one of them. Mobile-only sites, sure. Desktop-only sites, why not. If you want both, do both instead of making a hideous web design Cronenberg pleading for the relief of death.

I find that responsive design works well for simpler webpages. But for more complex pages or apps, yeah: it totally falls apart.

However... whenever I see an app or site that has two separate websites, I know I'm in for trouble: sometimes one version will miss some features, and I'll invariably have to request the desktop website. The worst of them was my previous health insurance provider, that only had one very important feature in the mobile version.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by phendrenad2 »

the_snooze wrote: post #46
jasoneckert wrote: post #4

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.

>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?"

Hey now, don't say anything bad about cookie consent popups, the Europeans will be waking up soon and they'll downvote you to hell.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by einpoklum »

zzzbra wrote: post #155

holy smoke, she keeps updating it!? did not expect to see content for the live action series

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:

Its loveliness increases; it will never

Pass into nothingness; but still will keep

A bower quiet for us, and a sleep

Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by phendrenad2 »

tokai wrote: post #79
marginalia_nu wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Responsive websites pretty much killed this type of aesthetic. It would be an absolute nightmare to get this sort of design to work well while supporting mobile. It's a real pity, because the hybrid designs we get now all looks like a bunch of uninspired rectangles.

People should just stop making web pages for mobile. So many times I have had to force the desktop version of a page to actually get what I'm there for.

I think this is already happening. People are realizing that not every site needs to work (or more often, become a horrible vertically-scrolling soup) on mobile. The only laggard is Google which is still stuck in 2009 and downranks mobile-unfriendly pages (even on desktop searches)

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Post by mikepurvis »

voz_ wrote: post #132
whstl wrote: post #53

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I'm not sure how good natured it was. Eventually Jimmy founded Wikia/Fandom.com and later a lot of well-sourced fiction-work pages was expelled from Wikipedia, with Wikipedia admins (or whatever they are) bullying people into moving content to Fandom, in deletion discussions. Some remain due to some people putting up long fights. The difference in quality from the content we had in the 2000s in Wikipedia to the conte…

This is a huge issue with Wikipedia. The “importance” bar is silly when a page is basically free to host. Yet, despite this, they often remove or delete articles because they do not deem it worthy of an encyclopedia. I never understood this - it’s not a physical tome. If the knowledge is well sourced who cares what it’s about?

Notability is one piece of the puzzle, but the other is ensuring that Wikipedia content is not written "in-universe". Fandom has no such restriction, and in fact skews the other way, with content being assumed to be referring to fictional people, places, and events as if real, unless otherwise noted.

I think this is a valid barrier for Wikipedia, and the desire to describe fictional worlds this way is a good signal that that content is a better fit for a more fan-oriented forum.

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