Another fantastic example of this is the site for Space Jam -- http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
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Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, more specifically table-based design. It Just Works (tm).
In some places, table-based designs are apparently still hip, and I come across few for localization. Gives me huge facepalm dealing with them...
Table-based layouts are indispensable for HTML emails. But then.. Outlook still uses the MS-Word rendering engine from 2007 (basically).
Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
#203This was one of the first PC "open world" GTA style games where I spent more time trying to drive my monster truck up impossible obstacles and exploiting the game physics than I did ever racing.
Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
#204One of my favorite throwback sites that's still up is https://www.kfc.com/ . 2006 isn't that old, but it's still hilarious.
I worked at Yum Brands when that version of the site was first created. It's much older than 2006 though.
Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
#205An HTML file virtually unchanged in fifteen years still renders cleanly in a modern browser. Backwards compatibility across open standards is a wonderful thing.
You sure it is not just good quirks mode support?
Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
#206http://www.dolekemp96.org/main.htm
The design is very clean for a site designed in 1996. Apart from being tiny (was it designed for ants?)
Around that time I had a 17" display with 1024x768 resolution and it was considered quite good. This site is probably designed for 800x600.
edit: Did some math, DPI rose by about 30% since then, which is surprisingly not much.
Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
Still doesn't change the fact that 15 years ago "we"(as in, programmers, industry, whatever) were much, much more efficient with limited resources than what we are now. Some people consider it a good thing, some of us consider it a bad thing.
"were much, much more efficient with limited resources" You are cherry picking which resources you care about. What about power consumption? What about heat? What about physical size? What about noise? I remember the fans in those old PC's, mine sounded like a jet taking off.
None of them are related to software or software bloat, or putting resources to good use.
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#208If I knew then what I know now, I'd be rich. I sometimes wonder what it would be like if I found myself transported back to the late 90's with a copy of jQuery. I'd blow their tiny minds I would.
nothing would run jQuery bro. now get transported back with a copy of Firefox...
Computers would probably struggle to run it though.
Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
#209An HTML file virtually unchanged in fifteen years still renders cleanly in a modern browser. Backwards compatibility across open standards is a wonderful thing.
I'm pretty sure a .doc file created fifteen years ago also still renders in Word. Same for a PDF file created 15 years ago or most other formats. So I don't really see your point about open standards in this case.
A .doc file created 5 minutes ago in Word can't be assumed to open correctly in any other version of Word without testing.
I used to work at a research institute and the people who used Word always spent more time getting their papers to look as nice as the LaTeX users, particularly if you crossed platforms or had change tracking enabled (hello undeletable footnote in the middle of the page…). The barrier to entry was higher but if you needed reliably consistent formatting there wasn't really a better option, with the exception of HTML5 + CSS + your favorite MathML shim if you're submitting to a really web-centric journal.
Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
#210The System Requirements brought back memories: * Multimedia PC with a Pentium 133 or higher processor * Microsoft® Windows® 95 operating system or Windows NT® Workstation operating system version 4.0 with Service Pack 3 * 16 MB of RAM; 32MB recommended * 30 MB of available hard-disk space; 110 MB recommended * Quad-speed CD-ROM drive; 6x recommended * Super VGA, 16-bit color monitor * Microsoft Mouse or compatible po…
I actually played this game on a Pentium 60 with 8 MB of RAM. It ran pretty well if you turned down all the graphics settings.