Make front end shit again

#1

Post by katpas » Sun, May 13, 2018, 6:45 PM UTC

Make front end shit again
makefrontendshitagain.party

Re: Make front end shit again

#2

Post by karood » Sun, May 13, 2018, 7:17 PM UTC

when it worked at 33.6 kbps...

Re: Make front end shit again

#3

Post by Old_Thrashbarg » Sun, May 13, 2018, 7:19 PM UTC

karood wrote: post #2

when it worked at 33.6 kbps...

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.

Re: Make front end shit again

#4

Post by weber111 » Sun, May 13, 2018, 7:20 PM UTC

Clicking 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.

Re: Make front end shit again

#5

Post by djhworld » Sun, May 13, 2018, 7:22 PM UTC

Brought a smile to my face.

Outside of the silly nostalgia, I do appreciate the personal blog/websites that are very minimal in their theming, while still looking modern and clean.

The silly old geocities days were fun but, it's nice to have readable text too.

Re: Make front end shit again

#6

Post by microcolonel » Sun, May 13, 2018, 7:23 PM UTC

Old_Thrashbarg wrote: post #3

karood wrote: post #2

when it worked at 33.6 kbps...

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.

You can see images load line by line today, if you throttle your network (either through Chrome devtools, or some external tool). Or just get a dialup modem, you probably have a provider you can reach, and the good ones can be plugged in through ethernet.

Re: Make front end shit again

#7

Post by kbody » Sun, May 13, 2018, 7:23 PM UTC

"We used to make websites because it was fun and at a point we lost the way."

Indeed.

Re: Make front end shit again

#8

Post by salawat » Sun, May 13, 2018, 7:23 PM UTC

I just shed a tear.

God, I miss Web 1.0.

Re: Make front end shit again

#9

Post by scyclow » Sun, May 13, 2018, 7:23 PM UTC

Oh man, I love stuff like this. It's too bad that the web has been taken over by bootstrap, WordPress, and squarspace. But you can do a lot with raw html, css, and JavaScript! And as a bonus, it ends up looking really unique. It's sort of weird that whenever I show friends the dumb shit I make [1], their immediate reaction is lump it in with geocities.

[1] ex. http://fastcashmoneyplus.biz

Re: Make front end shit again

#10

Post by bArray » Sun, May 13, 2018, 7:24 PM UTC

Old_Thrashbarg wrote: post #3

karood wrote: post #2

when it worked at 33.6 kbps...

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.