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Re: Dole Kemp 96 Web Site

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 4:09 PM UTC

> Bill Clinton Wants to Put "Big Brother" in Your Computer

ahh yes, the "Clipper Chip"

Re: Dole Kemp 96 Web Site

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Post by m000 » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 4:10 PM UTC

nemomarx wrote: post #28

furyofantares wrote: post #25

Clicking Dole Interactive > Computer leads to some very small "wallpapers"

Maybe intended for tiling?

Tiling was all the rage in '96. Mostly because you were running on 8MB of RAM.

Re: Dole Kemp 96 Web Site

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 4:11 PM UTC

SirFatty wrote: post #19

Which reminds me of Treehouse of Horror VII. "The politics of failure have failed. We need to make them work again! Tomorrow, when you are sealed in the voting cubicle, vote for me, Senator Ka... ... Bob Dole!"

..we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

Classic.

Re: Dole Kemp 96 Web Site

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Post by SunshineTheCat » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 4:11 PM UTC

theli0nheart wrote: post #26

eschulz wrote: post #11

Here's the page you were looking for: https://www.dolekemp96.org/about/cookies/cookies.html

Someone please make these.

100% and please post pictures too.

Re: Dole Kemp 96 Web Site

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Post by 0xdeadbeeb » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 4:13 PM UTC

Faster than 99% of websites today. 2.18 html, 86Kb total.

Perfect lighthouse performance: https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-www-dolekemp96-org-...

Re: Dole Kemp 96 Web Site

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Post by SunshineTheCat » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 4:13 PM UTC

Seeing the phrase "Smaller government" in a main tagline is so weird to see. Don't think that's an idea really any politician would even pay lip service to anymore.

Re: Dole Kemp 96 Web Site

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Post by m000 » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 4:14 PM UTC

Imagine being paid consultant-level fees to build a website with Notepad and MS-Paint. Those were the times...

Re: Dole Kemp 96 Web Site

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Post by actionfromafar » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 4:15 PM UTC

anonym29 wrote: post #30

dfxm12 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, they didn't win, but the economy boomed under Clinton (from the Bush recession through the dotcom bubble) and violent crime plummeted in the same time frame as well.

Violent crime plummeted throughout the 90s because abortions was legalized in 1973, 17-27 years before 1990 and 2000, respectively, roughly coinciding with the early adulthood period where a vast majority of criminal offenses are committed, the offender having the freedom of an adult without the fully formed prefrontal cortex of one yet. The fetuses that were aborted were overwhelmingly from socioeconomic demographic…

That's very bad for the Prison Economy. :-/

Re: Dole Kemp 96 Web Site

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Post by actionfromafar » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 4:16 PM UTC

geoffeg wrote: post #29

unicorn_cowboy wrote: post #22

I wish they would simulate the extremely slow load times to make it feel time-period accurate. You were waiting multiple seconds for images to appear before you even had any idea what you were looking at.

If you want to experience this, Firefox and Chrome support throttling network connections, check the "Network" tab of the Developer Tools.

Hey, Dole is progressive! (GIF)

Re: Dole Kemp 96 Web Site

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Post by SunshineTheCat » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

0xdeadbeeb wrote: post #35

Faster than 99% of websites today. 2.18 html, 86Kb total. Perfect lighthouse performance: https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-www-dolekemp96-org-...

I'm bookmarking this to send to clients that have WordPress sites with 87 "performance" plugins installed.