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Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by jstarfish »

ryandrake wrote: post #103
mxmbrb wrote: post #78

The modern internet is deprived of ornamentation in the same way modern architecture is. Tiktok allready upped the speed and made a lot of the established web seem terribly boring. I truly hope that AI generated content is putting the final nail in the coffin and we start to see more creative and individualistic media landscapes thrive again. Hope dies last.

There was an HN article[1] a few weeks ago lamenting how everything looks uniformly boring, beige and average, including houses, cars, fashion, movies, books, and so on. Nobody is doing anything bold or creative anymore. Everything looks like it’s been homogenized down to target some global ISO standard average consumer. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35355703

Only in the west. We do not value art or aesthetics; we defund it at every opportunity and now have computers generating approximations of art for consumption from our digital troughs.

We're androgynous blobs driving gray cars, eating reconstituted gray McMuck and scrolling through gray websites while living in our gray apartments and planned communities. Kids can't play outside; we paved the green spaces to put in more parking lots. Kids belong in their beige bedrooms anyway.

Japan might be to your liking. If you appreciate art, I highly recommend a visit if you need a reminder that creativity and artistic beauty are still alive (in spite of their own homogeneous culture!).

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by voz_ »

whstl wrote: post #53
simplicio wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember in the early wikipedia days, Jimmy Wales complaining (in a good natured way) how a bunch of anime series had more pages devoted to them on wikipedia then World War II.

I'm not sure how good natured it was. Eventually Jimmy founded Wikia/Fandom.com and later a lot of well-sourced fiction-work pages was expelled from Wikipedia, with Wikipedia admins (or whatever they are) bullying people into moving content to Fandom, in deletion discussions. Some remain due to some people putting up long fights. The difference in quality from the content we had in the 2000s in Wikipedia to the conte…

This is a huge issue with Wikipedia. The “importance” bar is silly when a page is basically free to host. Yet, despite this, they often remove or delete articles because they do not deem it worthy of an encyclopedia. I never understood this - it’s not a physical tome. If the knowledge is well sourced who cares what it’s about?

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by pimeys »

plagiarist wrote: post #100
the_snooze wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I think being simple and content focused are two of them. You mean you don't like newsletter subscription pop-ups? Or a virtual assistant chat window on the corner? Or auto-playing videos that follow you when you scroll down? Or a choice between "Accept all cookies" and "Learn more?"

It looks like you have an ad blocker! Click here to disable it for this site. Log in to continue reading this article. And, oh, you don't want advertising cookies? Here's a list of a dozen categories you have to manually deselect one-at-a-time. To help with this there's a bright-colored button that says, "accept all" and a drab text link that says, "use my selection."

Consent-O-Matic lets you to select which cookies you want in a site, and then automatically clicks the selections to popups if they appear. Has been working pretty well for me.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by throwawaaarrgh »

the_snooze wrote: post #46
jasoneckert wrote: post #4

Aside from the Cowboy Bebop nostalgia hit, this site is a great example of how clear, creative, and fun sites were in the late 1990s. While I struggle to identify the many reasons why I think sites looked better back then, I think being simple and content focused are two of them.

>I think being simple and content focused are two of them. You mean you don't like newsletter subscription pop-ups? Or a virtual assistant chat window on the corner? Or auto-playing videos that follow you when you scroll down? Or a choice between "Accept all cookies" and "Learn more?"

Well it's impossible to have anything better than that. I mean, it's not like the worst solutions would win out and the entire planet would tacitly go along with it to prevent having to do something harder but better.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by EvanAnderson »

rilindo wrote: post #117
EvanAnderson wrote: post #23

The second domain I ever registered was for my ex-wife’s cartoon fan site for a particular Disney cartoon series back in ‘98. Her drive to digitize stills from the show and write character bios and episode summaries was something I never understood, but she was certainly dedicated. I’d imagine all of that kind of compulsion ends up on Wikia sites and such today, but back then it was do-it-yourself. She was writing HT…

> a particular Disney cartoon series back in ‘98 Gargoyles?

TaleSpin.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

the_snooze wrote: post #46
jasoneckert wrote: post #4

Aside from the Cowboy Bebop nostalgia hit, this site is a great example of how clear, creative, and fun sites were in the late 1990s. While I struggle to identify the many reasons why I think sites looked better back then, I think being simple and content focused are two of them.

>I think being simple and content focused are two of them. You mean you don't like newsletter subscription pop-ups? Or a virtual assistant chat window on the corner? Or auto-playing videos that follow you when you scroll down? Or a choice between "Accept all cookies" and "Learn more?"

Block unvetted JS and that bullshit disappears. Your browser will be faster and you won't have to navigate around distractions hiding the content.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by thefringthing »

voz_ wrote: post #132
whstl wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure how good natured it was. Eventually Jimmy founded Wikia/Fandom.com and later a lot of well-sourced fiction-work pages was expelled from Wikipedia, with Wikipedia admins (or whatever they are) bullying people into moving content to Fandom, in deletion discussions. Some remain due to some people putting up long fights. The difference in quality from the content we had in the 2000s in Wikipedia to the conte…

This is a huge issue with Wikipedia. The “importance” bar is silly when a page is basically free to host. Yet, despite this, they often remove or delete articles because they do not deem it worthy of an encyclopedia. I never understood this - it’s not a physical tome. If the knowledge is well sourced who cares what it’s about?

The bar for notability also somehow ended up a lot lower for the kinds of things that appeal mostly to the Wikipedia editor demographic, although there has been some improvement on that front in recent years.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by kbelder »

cantaloa wrote: post #109
scotty79 wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mobile design was something created for old phones that didn't have quite the resolution of computer monitors. Modern phones don't really need mobile designed sites.

You need text to scale and reflow to device width if you want text to be readable. This is one of the main reasons for mobile web design. Else you're stuck panning around the screen to read the text zoomed in. Once you decide to scale text to device size so that it's readable, you are stuck doing the rest of mobile web design (fluid layout).

You need to allow users to scale text as desired, as the original web intended. You shouldn't make a site targeted to mobile; you should make a site that allows the user to display in their client as they wish.

The problem will fix itself.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by creamyhorror »

ajmurmann wrote: post #64

We've had this mentioned here many times before, but if you love these types of pages, make sure to check out https://search.marginalia.nu/ . A search engine made for this type of stuff.

I browsed a few random sites[1][2][3] from https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random - it's a nice way to preview many random things. Bookmarked. Seeing these interesting sites makes me wish I could RSS-subscribe to them (or add them on social media, ironically).

[1] https://2bit.neocities.org/ - Zoomer makes impressive faux-'90s webpage.

[2] https://annotations.lindylearn.io/ - A collaborative social layer for annotating all webpages. Something I've thought about over the years, and finally run across.

[3] https://fed.brid.gy/ - Connects a website to Mastodon/the fediverse, with two-way post flow.

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