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Building a website like it's 1999

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Re: Building a website like it's 1999

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Post by rambambram »

I really like how I can switch styles in the top right corner.

I'm not necessarily nostalgic for the design from the '90's web, but the openness and sometimes weirdness of personal sites/blogs is something that I miss (and can really appreciate if I do find it).

Re: Building a website like it's 1999

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Post by Gordonjcp »

rambambram wrote: post #2

I really like how I can switch styles in the top right corner. I'm not necessarily nostalgic for the design from the '90's web, but the openness and sometimes weirdness of personal sites/blogs is something that I miss (and can really appreciate if I do find it).

I'm nostalgic for not needing an 80Mbps symmetric 4G connection to browse basic web pages, with ADSL no longer even viable for most sites.

Re: Building a website like it's 1999

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Post by Alpi »

Ok you got me, I feel nostalgic. What strikes me most is that those people from 90th were putting their creativity into something only handful of people will ever see, they were effectively shouting to void.

I would love to be still able to discover low-ranging websites like this. I remember somebody shared some alternative search engine?

Re: Building a website like it's 1999

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Post by nicbou »

Alpi wrote: post #6

Ok you got me, I feel nostalgic. What strikes me most is that those people from 90th were putting their creativity into something only handful of people will ever see, they were effectively shouting to void. I would love to be still able to discover low-ranging websites like this. I remember somebody shared some alternative search engine?

Marginalia. Its creator hangs out on HN.

Re: Building a website like it's 1999

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Post by thanksgiving »

Side rant: I have probably looked up more about this CLS (cumulative layout shift) thing that now I hate the word "just". "Just" do this, "just" do that. Bollocks. Tomorrow it will be something else. There are already at least three ways to handle image width and height. It is easy they say. Use the first approach if the image is an important of the main subject of the page. Use the second approach if the image is purely decorative and not an integral to the main subject of the page. Use the third approach if you are an idiot (I made this part up because I forgot what the third one was for).

I see this website does not have width and height in all of its images. For example, in the image below, the author clearly knows the dimensions of the image are 1000px x 743px. However, they didn't include the dimensions and the CLS is green under 0.1 (0.087 mobile and 0.045 desktop in my test [pagespeed]).

I opened developer tools in my firefox nightly browser, set throttling to GPRS, and disabled cache in my network tab and I reloaded the page.

I clearly see text push down as screenshots appear. So do width and height / aspect ratio not matter any more (did they ever)? I absolutely hate feeling like an idiot because I can't keep up with what matters and what does not.






The" rel="nofollow">https://geocities.restorativland.org/Heartland/Ridge/1217/">... Proud Grandparents Page

[pagespeed] https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Flocalghos...

Re: Building a website like it's 1999

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Post by geraldwhen »

Marquee and blink are fun. Any site that removes them for the sake of accessibility is killing the whole idea of nostalgia and a 90s vibe.

Go out in the world. There is marquee and blinking text everywhere, on billboards, ads, and marquees. Put real life things on the web isn’t a crime.

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