I love the idea and look forward to diving in. There's an anachronism in the first paragraph though... "check out my MySpace page"? MySpace didn't launch until 2003... Honest question, was this created by someone who was not actually on the web in 1999? Or maybe they're just taking artistic license with the "1999" idea?
Surf the web like it's 1999
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#22If you set your HTTP proxy to "theoldnet.com" with port 1999, and add an exclusion for "web.archive.org", then all your web pages will come from 1999, via the Wayback Machine. You can pick a different year by changing the port. Edit: It may have been hugged to death...
i love the creativity people come up with for such novel things
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#23I love the idea and look forward to diving in. There's an anachronism in the first paragraph though... "check out my MySpace page"? MySpace didn't launch until 2003... Honest question, was this created by someone who was not actually on the web in 1999? Or maybe they're just taking artistic license with the "1999" idea?
Looking at his neocities (self made) profile, he's 45-50.
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#24Once you get that html table as layout are not harmful, that you use properly the border enabling attribute, augment the noscript/basic (x)html with and .
Well...
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#25I love the idea and look forward to diving in. There's an anachronism in the first paragraph though... "check out my MySpace page"? MySpace didn't launch until 2003... Honest question, was this created by someone who was not actually on the web in 1999? Or maybe they're just taking artistic license with the "1999" idea?
And Tomoyasu Hotei didn't release "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" (the autoplaying MIDI) until 2000 ;)
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#27Laughing hard at the Olean ad. As many won't get that, it's the brand name for Olestra, a fat substitute with similar nutritional qualities but zero calories because humans can't digest it, that was briefly popular in low-calorie foods in the late 90s. But since you can't digest it, it leads to horrible shits and was mostly taken off the market.
The official phrase was "causes anal leakage".
that phrase is much much much worse than the black box labeling the FDA can require you to use.
once that phrase hit the late night stand up bits, it was pretty much over. it's just sad it had to make to that far.
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#28I already surfed the web (and built websites) in all of 1999. Not even misplaced nostalgia would make me want to go back and surf the web like 1999 again. I’ll keep my modern browser, CSS Grid, and 1 Gigabit Fiber Optic line thank you very much.
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#29It's funny because it's true. Instantly took me back to the late 90s. I remember trying to optimize images for 16k colors, and dealing with all the weird, disparate javascript versions.
16k colors, man! You must have been rich to be able to afford a machine being able to display all of these ;)
I optimized for the official 216 color Web Safe Palette (“How many shades of neon green do we really need?”) well into the early 2000s.
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#30So realistic. BSOD when I try to open the start menu.
i wonder how many people will actually try to use ctrl-alt-delete to recover. i did just to see if it would do anything, but i don't use windows so I wasn't going be rick rolled by it.
like it would be funny if it launched a full screen window of the start up screen for win98 or something.