Looking back at it, the weirdest thing in the list have to be pixel fonts. Back then I used them and I liked them, but today it seems like a foolish gimmick. My only thought is that it's a testament to the fact those days were for young people and they mostly didn't have issues with their sight. Today we are starting to think about reading glasses and the web is ubiquitous so readable content is beating pretty content (whatever pretty means).
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
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#182I miss MS FrontPage! I remember how shocked my friends looked whenever they came by and saw it open on my screen. They never understood why I spend hours on that thing instead of just playing games. The first time I thought about learning to code was when I visited Linkin Park's website. Sure, it took 10 long minutes to load but it was a masterpiece of its own. I'd just open the website and stare at it. And one day I…
> I'm trying still...
Don't worry, you got this. Web development has become a lot simpler since then, after all.
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#183Let's not forget frames, the original 'solution' to the problem of having to edit the navigation bar on every page. Unfortunately, you then had to figure out what to do if someone accessed the frame page directly, since search engines could still index these parts of the page seperately. And they always felt jarring and awkward too, since the cutoff between sections was always obvious...
There has also been the reverse problem of someone embedding your entire site in their frames to place ads on top of your content.
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#184Anyone still remembers AOLpress?
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#185I miss MS FrontPage! I remember how shocked my friends looked whenever they came by and saw it open on my screen. They never understood why I spend hours on that thing instead of just playing games. The first time I thought about learning to code was when I visited Linkin Park's website. Sure, it took 10 long minutes to load but it was a masterpiece of its own. I'd just open the website and stare at it. And one day I…
I also remember finding out about scripting with either VBScript or JScript (which was different from JavaScript). Shortly after, I discovered that there's a function capable of listing folders and files from the visitor's hard drive. No permissions needed. The browser just had full access to the hard drive. Naturally, I wrote a script and loaded it on the homepage of my website. The goal was to save, on a file, the…
> JScript (which was different from JavaScript).
It was just Microsoft's name for JavaScript because they didn't want to deal with Sun's trademark, but they did add a sprinkle of their own extra stuff in there without talking to any other implementers about it. That was par for the course for Microsoft of the day though.
Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
#186I miss MS FrontPage! I remember how shocked my friends looked whenever they came by and saw it open on my screen. They never understood why I spend hours on that thing instead of just playing games. The first time I thought about learning to code was when I visited Linkin Park's website. Sure, it took 10 long minutes to load but it was a masterpiece of its own. I'd just open the website and stare at it. And one day I…
FrontPage was good and all, but you can pry Macromedia Dreamweaver from my cold dead hands.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
I remember using FrontPage quite a bit too. It had some... interesting quirks when it came to outputting HTML, but it seemed fine enough for me at the time. Which also reminds me; did anyone actually use the FrontPage Server Extensions they had for it? I remember the tool having a bunch of dynamic features like counters and guestbooks that relied on them being installed, and web hosts sometimes having these extension…
I was thinking this exact thing just the other day, as in, within the last week.
It's the nerd's roman empire. I thought about it this morning.
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#188> DHTML, which stands for “distributed HTML” "Dynamic", I think; not "distributed".
Was hoping someone would come here and say this, although we're getting to the point where if we don't write it down we won't remember it, and mandela ourselves out of how things actually were.
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#189Looking back at it, the weirdest thing in the list have to be pixel fonts. Back then I used them and I liked them, but today it seems like a foolish gimmick. My only thought is that it's a testament to the fact those days were for young people and they mostly didn't have issues with their sight. Today we are starting to think about reading glasses and the web is ubiquitous so readable content is beating pretty conten…
I just remember there was a particular web design site that was popular with web designers that used a 10px pixel font. Every designer I knew spent so long staring at awful sites like that, they trained themselves to perceive any reasonably sized text as “massive”. Trying to get them to design something that was actually readable was a nightmare. 12px text was as far as they were willing to go for body copy.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
Archive.org has some old copies, maybe you remember this one? Still loads slowly :) https://web.archive.org/web/20011202145112/http://linkinpark...
No, it was from around the launch of meteora iirc. I tried to look it up, but the only copy that have a bearing resemblance to what I remember doesn't load very well as many files seem to be missing. And, the snapshots after that one just keep returning a 302 error :/
Meteora is such a great album. I got the special edition on CD back in the day, the album art is fantastic.