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Re: Make front end shit again

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Post by madeofpalk »

jdietrich wrote: post #97
madeofpalk wrote: post #43

> We used to make websites because it was fun and at a point we lost the way I know this is just some little tongue in cheek joke, but I can't help but vehemently disagree with this. Never did we only make websites just "because it was fun" any more or less than we do now.

>Never did we only make websites just "because it was fun" any more or less than we do now. The early internet was incredibly frivolous. Commercial activity was completely banned on ARPANET and NSFNET. SSL didn't come along until 1995. There was a brief but significant period before the first browser wars and the dot-com bubble, when lots of people were interested in this new internet thing but nobody knew what it wa…

Do you reckon the person who made the site and the claim was around back on ARPANET?

Re: Make front end shit again

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Post by FISHunderscore »

saravieira wrote: post #70

Hey! I made this dumb thing! Yes, the fact that it's made with vue and stuff is on porpuse, I wanted to make it with reasonml but didn't have any time so ended up with vue. The point is that we complicate so many shit today that is not needed Have fun and I will add some marquee tags!

Add a button to convert many elements to marquee!

  javascript:a=(b,c)=>{d=document.createElement(c);d.classList=b.classList,d.id=b.id,d.style=b.style,d.innerHTML=b.innerHTML,d.name=b.name,d.src=b.src,d.href=b.href,b.parentElement.insertBefore(d,b),b.remove()};document.querySelectorAll("span,%20p,%20a,%20code,%20li,%20h1,%20h2,%20h3,%20h4,%20h5,%20h6,%20h7,%20label,%20button").forEach(b=>a(b,"marquee"));

Re: Make front end shit again

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Post by StavrosK »

madeofpalk wrote: post #151
jdietrich wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Never did we only make websites just "because it was fun" any more or less than we do now. The early internet was incredibly frivolous. Commercial activity was completely banned on ARPANET and NSFNET. SSL didn't come along until 1995. There was a brief but significant period before the first browser wars and the dot-com bubble, when lots of people were interested in this new internet thing but nobody knew what it wa…

Do you reckon the person who made the site and the claim was around back on ARPANET?

I got online around the turn of the century and it was still frivolous. Hell, I contributed to some of the frivolity with my crappy personal teenage webpages.

EDIT: Now I made this[1] to make it easier to publish these kinds of frivolous sites.

[1]: https://hearth.eternum.io/

Re: Make front end shit again

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Post by dsr_ »

fwdpropaganda wrote: post #127
saravieira wrote: post #70

Hey! I made this dumb thing! Yes, the fact that it's made with vue and stuff is on porpuse, I wanted to make it with reasonml but didn't have any time so ended up with vue. The point is that we complicate so many shit today that is not needed Have fun and I will add some marquee tags!

I'm surprised. I'm running uMatrix and block all js by default. Still, my mouse pointer got changed into a spaceship. How does this work?

cursor: url (path to spaceship.cur) or something like that.

Re: Make front end shit again

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Post by severine »

dag11 wrote: post #111
jd3 wrote: post #105

God, I've been complaining about this for so many years now. The hardest part about duplicating the Web 1.0 aesthetic (well) has been finding the primary locations where the tile/image/iconsets originated and mirroring them for modern consumption — I'm still working on that. http://dataswamp.org/~john/

I didn't think it was possible to fall in love with a website, but here I am. Nostalgia! I've been brainstorming ways to overhaul my personal site for a while now, and this is definitely the way I'll be going. Personal web pages used to mean something.

Upvoting and replying to your comment to say hell yeah!

Re: Make front end shit again

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Post by gchucky »

zeusk wrote: post #132
madeofpalk wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reminds me of the Bloomberg tech site, which had a lot of effort put into its 'brutalist' design to look like a 1995-era web page.

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/404 https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/500 https://www.bloomberg.com/500 Their error pages are still quite funny (and epic shit).

Just for proper attribution, these pages are the work of Steph Davidson.[1] It's generally believed that these page were created when Richard Turley was working at Bloomberg as their creative director.[2]

[1] http://stephdavidson.com/ [2] http://www.businessinsider.com/richard-turley-2011-4

Re: Make front end shit again

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Post by kinos »

citricsquid wrote: post #35

A few months ago I created a project called Hypertext Town, a simple project where anybody can create "camps" (a collection of HTML, images etc.) and connect them together through "towns". A town lives at a subdomain (e.g: town.hypertext.town) and a camp lives at /~camp (e.g: town.hypertext.town/~camp). I never "launched" it so it's just been languishing in obscurity on the www but if anybody wants to make cute littl…

You reinvented webrings.
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