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Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign

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Post by neilk »

imjared wrote: post #40

Bit of mudslinging going on about a "clipper chip." I was much too young to really know what was going on with this (can read up on it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip ), but it's interesting to see that there were security concerns in 1996 similar to the ones we have in 2012. http://www.dolekemp96.org/agenda/issues/internet.htm

That's a good thing for today's hackers and activists to review. It shows the long-term agenda of the government in wanting to have ubiquitous surveillance powers. And it shows you can win some of these battles.

Can you imagine a web without SSL? Today people openly call for all sites to do https all the time, but in the 90s, a web server (or even a web browser) that could do https in a non-broken fashion was officially a dangerous munition. To do this basic thing you had to cobble some open source software together, kind of like how people do it with ffmpeg and implementations of closed-source codecs today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_U...

Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign

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Post by atsaloli »

atsaloli wrote: post #28
Maakuth wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The tightness of the layout probably stems from low resolution screens. In '96 the most typical display size was something around 640x480 or 800x600, not a lot of room to breathe there.

In the last month, I've had 2 people tell me (unsolicited of course) that my website looks like it was made 10 years ago. I went to this 1996 campaign site and said with dismay, it looks like my website. I recognized many of of the above historical attributes (table-based layout, centered narrow, body bgcolor attribute) in my own site. I've got a full-time job as a UNIX system administrator, and a part-time business…

Thank you very much for all the comments and suggestions!

Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign

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Post by cedricd »

What's interesting to me about these old sites is how bad the typography is. Why is it that sites started using decent typefaces only relatively recently? Print design was just as well understood back then.

Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign

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Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign

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Post by Random_Person »

stdbrouw wrote: post #78
Random_Person wrote: post #67

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I code my site by hand... each and every page... for these same reasons. I need to figure out templating because it has become quite tedious to update links and I'm only at <50 pages!

Lots of static-site generators to choose from. Jekyll's the most popular choice. Link: http://jekyllrb.com

It's one of those things that every time I look at templating, I get overwhelmed and my procrastination says that the time it would take me to learn templating would be better served coding the site...

Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign

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Post by Random_Person »

csense wrote: post #89
Random_Person wrote: post #67

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I code my site by hand... each and every page... for these same reasons. I need to figure out templating because it has become quite tedious to update links and I'm only at <50 pages!

If you like Python, Flask is good. This article is useful: https://nicolas.perriault.net/code/2012/dead-easy-yet-powerf...

I looked at Flask once. Not sure why I didn't return. This article is great. Thanks!.

Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign

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Post by dccoolgai »

iomike wrote: post #69
dccoolgai wrote: post #49

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Drudge Report. Even if you don't like the political "lean" of it (I, personally, don't), you have to appreciate a design that has (basically) stayed the same since it was founded in the mid 90s. The "minimalism" from Drudge had a big impact on a lot of modern web design.

trust me, drudge's minimalism didn't influence modern web design.

There are quite a few people

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1407-why-the-drudge-report-is...

who disagree with you

http://dailycurrant.com/2012/04/23/matt-drudge-wins-web-desi...

Re: Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign

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Post by meej »

dccoolgai wrote: post #97
iomike wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

trust me, drudge's minimalism didn't influence modern web design.

There are quite a few people http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1407-why-the-drudge-report-is... who disagree with you http://dailycurrant.com/2012/04/23/matt-drudge-wins-web-desi...

daily currant is a satire site.
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