>Source code at Github
This is why it's not fun anymore. Seriously, go look at all that crap you have to learn AND understand AND debug, ETC...
The reason all this crap was "fun" before was because it was so damn easy. :(
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#62> Source code at Github This is why it's not fun anymore. Seriously, go look at all that crap you have to learn AND understand AND debug, ETC... The reason all this crap was "fun" before was because it was so damn easy. :(
You totally don't have to do any of this to make this page work, I'm pretty sure all that js code is completely unnecessary...
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#63Sounds like the Scratchware Manifesto, but for websites, not games.
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#64Web pages used to be amazingly creative, with terrible usability. Now they're the exact opposite. Usability is good, but they all look the same. I wonder what social sciences have to say about this. About public opinion swinging from one extreme to the other, never seeming to be able to land on the sane middle.
It's about maturity - trying many forms(creativity) and finding the forms that work(i.e. sell, bring search traffic) and reusing them over and over. The general process happens in many industries. and i don't think it will return to the wild creativity phase.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if there's some way to simulate the row by row image loading. I guess that's not the point of this website, but that would make me feel nostalgic.
Just throttle your router settings for download/upload - have fun! In all seriousness though, people designing websites should be given the shittiest connections possible and old computers (between 5 and 10 years old). Maybe then we'll end up with websites that haven't got more JS than content, broken CSS and images that push the page download over several megabytes.
Chrome Dev Tools let you simulate shit internet connection (2G, slow 3G, fast 3G, etc.) and Google encourages to this for development for the reasons you've mentioned.
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#66"We used to make websites because it was fun and at a point we lost the way." Indeed.
I might have done this: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html to an entire business division for a while. Might have.
There was an Apple ][ game that did something similar. I think it might have been King's Quest. In the era when people used hole punchers to make flippy disks, if you accidentally put the game disk in your machine upside down, the game displayed upside down.
Today you can make any Mac's display turn upside down with a few clicks in System Preferences. Someone in my office may or may not make this happen on machines that haven't been properly logged out when someone goes on vacation.
(A quick Command-Option-8 is also good for some fun.)
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#67I agree with the sentiment of this site. I have an nginx proxy set up for personal stuff, and the home page was done in an homage to GeoCities: https://brucewillis.sexy/ Eventually I will get midi music playing correctly with mouse-tails.
The .sexy domains are rich with great simple sites. Like this site of Richard Stallman: http://rms.sexy
SFW
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#68Clicking around a little on the OP site's gallery led me to http://blog.geocities.institute/ and, in particular, to the post on the front page as of today, "9/11 and Vernacular Web" http://blog.geocities.institute/archives/5983 , which catalogs Geocities pages updated on 9/11. Pretty haunting.
Last week I was looking at an old CD-ROM of photos taken by a survey crew in the buildings around Ground Zero in the first few days after the attack.
It was startling to see how many messages various people had written in the thick dust that covered everything. The most common message was one word: "Revenge!"
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#69A 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…
This is great! I love it! I've been looking for an 'uncool' space to create little, text based personal website and it seems to be perfect.
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#70Hey!
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!