I had some of those Winamp skins back in the day!
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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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 imp…
m.website.com
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website.com/m
Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Ha, this remind me of a time when I did google(?) searches to find specialized sites of RPGs, Anime, etc. I still think fondly of browsing lspace.org (Discworld) and the Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5.
Oh, man, the Lurker's Guide was just such a fantastically good site. Organized, comprehensive, solidly good look: great stuff! I feel like it's often harder to find high-quality focuses resources like this at this point. I'm not sure whether that's because people have stopped making them, or whether they're just competing for clicks with exponentially more common (and more SEOified) junky fan-wiki sites, or what. (I…
A gaming example would be fandom of touhou versus its fan-owned and operated touhouwiki which controls entry of details and has a community that actually cares for checks.
Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
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> 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. Haven't visited myself but Asian metropolises should be much closer to the cyberpunk vibe you're looking for. I also really like the vibe but wonder how happy would I be actually living in it.
That's definitely true. And to be fair, even in the seminal Neuromancer the mega buildings are in and around Tokyo while the US has sprawl and my native Bonn apparently got nuked or something. I've visited Shanghai, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Osaka and they are definitely more what I want. I visited Chongqing in 2009 and now it looks incredibly cyberpunk: https://youtu.be/cD-t3W1zLzg I would theoretically be ver…
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Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 imp…
m.website.com or website.com/m
Yes, this is the kind of thing that also sucks in my experience.
Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
#176Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
#177Oh, 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…
Thank you for creating this little treasure and maintaining it. It's a time capsule from that era!
>>I do still have a lot of unfinished areas of the site that I tell myself I need to get done, but it has been 20+ years now, so you can see how well that's going (I see you, episode summary sections).
Maybe ChatGPT could help create episode summaries for the Cowboy Bebop live action series? At least as a placeholder until you have time to write it yourself?
Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
#178When 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.
I've always thought if myspace had .js support we would have an army of quite diverse programmers.
Some of the girls from my school were absolute guns at myspace profiles! Put me to shame :)
I myself got started from neopets and then myspace to foster my interest in a career (with a healthy bit of WoW botting).
Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
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Sorry but I totally disagree, not only with you but all the other commenters and down-voters. We got rid of flash, gifs, auto play videos with hideous sound, and blinking shit. We got reader mode, focusing on good UI/UX (given you're using ad blockers). In the times of myspace every website tried to pull fancy shit on us and I'm glad it's over. Just because there's still enough shit around doesn't mean that the inter…
You started your message complaining about this specific website. Now, the things you complain of in this reply don't really apply to it. It's still better to use than the kind of website that replaced it. My browsing habits have nothing to do with it, I just picked an appropriate apples-to-apples example for comparison. I think it's unfair to compare this to Apple's website or something. Also, you mention auto play…
Yeah I was talking more broadly.
My point was that in the early days I couldn't really shape my browsing experience. Now I can because a necessity arose due to websites delivering shit (and imho this started in the early days). So now they are nice. That was my point, not really sure the delivery was on point haha. And with the demise of flash it really got a lot better. But maybe I don't visit shitty websites a lot.
Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
#180Oh, 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…
It's perfect just the way it is! It's so great that you keep updating the relevant parts!) :)