Browsing these has made me realize the main benefits of modern web design is probably responsive layout. Some of these site hold up, but some really don't depending on how you browse them (ultra wide desktop vs smaller window vs mobile). Certainly you could fix some of the worst issues with classic html tricks but you'd have to made tradeoffs.
Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
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#93I got https://www.iqtestforfree.com/
and must say, that's the most accurate online IQ test I've taken.
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#94What exactly marks the difference between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0? I read these terms all the time, is there a good explanation?
The boundary is fuzzy, as others have pointed out. If there's one specific technology that serves as a definite boundary it's the use of XMLHttpRequest in javascript running on the browser, later dubbed "AJAX", which is short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.
It was first implemented (non-standard) around 2001 in Windows 2000, Outlook and IE 5. Subsequently other browsers (Mozilla in particular) adopted it and it became a def facto standard.
Not every site the uses/used Ajax is fully Web 2.0, but they are definitely not 1.0. The affect on web development was transformative, resulting in "DHTML", or Dynamic HTML. Webmail, for example, in the gmail, first released in 2004, you see a fully Web 2.0 site. You might say it's the beginning of what's called the Single Page Application. At a time when the average home internet connection was still pretty slow over dial-up, eliminating most round-trips was a game-changer.
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#95This is reminiscent of StumbleUpon, which I used to spend hours on finding interesting sites in the aughts. Reddit later filled that void, but it was always a good time stumbling upon some obscure gem of a site. Now it's some app abomination, but I still think there's a place for such a service.
I loved StumbleUpon.
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#96Browsing these has made me realize the main benefits of modern web design is probably responsive layout. Some of these site hold up, but some really don't depending on how you browse them (ultra wide desktop vs smaller window vs mobile). Certainly you could fix some of the worst issues with classic html tricks but you'd have to made tradeoffs.
I really hate it when web sites deliberately constrain their content to a tiny vertical column down the middle of the browser window. I have a 27 inch wide screen display. I paid for the whole 27 inches of the thing. When I stretch my browser window across it, I expect the web site content to fill it. I don’t expect the site to fill 2/3 of it with white space.
Yea, I have heard the whole “research shows, people can’t read long horizontal lines of text” excuse. Blah blah blah. Don’t care. If I find myself having trouble reading a long horizontal line of text, I can easily… [brace yourself for this one] resize my browser window! Let the user decide.
If you (the web developer) really feel like you just have to do something different when the browser window is too wide for your sensibilities… maybe divide the content into columns or something. Anything but useless white space.
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#97I landed on the ultimate trilobite site: https://www.trilobites.info
There are so many different forms of trilobites! A bunch of them actually look like prehistoric headcrabs
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#98It took me here https://greem.co.uk/otherbits/jelly.html Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? Which I think is HN worthy in its own right. Also the author of that page and I have the same toaster.
I feel like I need a more comprehensive explanation of jelly/jam. So jam is the same in both countries? What is jelly in America then?
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#99I stumbled upon this one, worthy of HN: how to construct your own analog Pong game - http://searle.x10host.com/TeleTennis/PWTennis.html
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