There's a part of my life that I wish I couldn't relive
I think the entire goal of mid-late 90's web design was to induce seizures and rage.

Site is glacially slow - apparently their pipes are vintage 1997 as well.

Needs more barbed wire page dividers and under construction animated gifs.

Ah, memories. Rather, GAAAHHHH, memories...

Well now I miss geocities fan pages dedicated to Animorphs and Third Eye Blind.

daveb0rg: Needs more barbed wire page dividers and under construction animated gifs.

And embedded MIDI files.

What Google actually looked like in 1998

Snapper Carr: Site is glacially slow - apparently their pipes are vintage 1997 as well.

Actually, according to the site, that's intentional.

They are simulating a dial-up connection.

SKREEEEEEEEEEEE-eeeeee-errerrrerrrerr-buZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZ

ah those were the days!

this was when is started my career as a webdeveloper. i used notepad to write code and photoshop4 for graphics.

i got paid 40something k a year for that, plus stock.

then we thought we were all high tech when we upgraded to photoshop 5.5 and used homesite because it COLOR CODED tags. we were so l337.

this was back before we had these positional stylesheets, y'hear? why, back in my day, WE NESTED TABLES. AND WE LIKED IT. WE USED TO NEST TABLES 4 TABLES DEEP (couldnt go deeper than that because then netscape navigator4 would barf).


/brb kids on lawn

Taking too long to load annoys me.

/Also, I do have a CRT and a machine with Windows 95 somewhere. I should try it.

Ah the days of dial up and napster. I remember picking a song to download and then waiting overnight for it to finish.

I also remember trying to play counterstrike over a dial up connection. Yeah didn't happen. Also didn't help that I suck at it.

...and....farked.

tuxq: ...and....farked.

They intentionally slowed their server to dial-up speed. So if you wait it does come up.

Stupid move. I read the first page and then closed it. Don't have all day to wait on their screenshot.

I just let it load in a background tab.

Pelvic Splanchnic Ganglion: What Google actually looked like in 1998

THIS. Or rather this...

Father_Jack: ah those were the days!

this was when is started my career as a webdeveloper. i used notepad to write code and photoshop4 for graphics.

i got paid 40something k a year for that, plus stock.

then we thought we were all high tech when we upgraded to photoshop 5.5 and used homesite because it COLOR CODED tags. we were so l337.

this was back before we had these positional stylesheets, y'hear? why, back in my day, WE NESTED TABLES. AND WE LIKED IT. WE USED TO NEST TABLES 4 TABLES DEEP (couldnt go deeper than that because then netscape navigator4 would barf).


They were great, creating navigation menus from graphics so they would display the same on all browsers, ahh the joys of the image map. Sitting in an office all day playing Quake to "stir my creative juices" and getting paid for it. A software company I worked for actually wanted me to make the display look like the Star Trek Bridge display screen.

Father_Jack: ah those were the days!

this was when is started my career as a webdeveloper. i used notepad to write code and photoshop4 for graphics.

i got paid 40something k a year for that, plus stock.

then we thought we were all high tech when we upgraded to photoshop 5.5 and used homesite because it COLOR CODED tags. we were so l337.

this was back before we had these positional stylesheets, y'hear? why, back in my day, WE NESTED TABLES. AND WE LIKED IT. WE USED TO NEST TABLES 4 TABLES DEEP (couldnt go deeper than that because then netscape navigator4 would barf).


/brb kids on lawn

Nested tables. Pfft. Imagemaps were where it was at. Also, frames that were made for the largest resolution available, so everyone on 640x480 would have to scroll through them and curse you

I'm more curious as to why the designer made the screens roll as though they were being filmed, as to my understanding the naked eye does not suffer this effect.

thismomentinblackhistory: Shaylen: Ah the days of dial up and napster. I remember picking a song to download and then waiting overnight for it to finish.

I also remember trying to play counterstrike over a dial up connection. Yeah didn't happen. Also didn't help that I suck at it.

My first music downloading/trading was on the Smashing Pumpkins Audio Archive. You'd just let a song download overnight, like you said, but another thing people would do is make mix tapes for one another and send them through the USPS (not just SP, all kinds of bands).

Hey, I used to trade Nirvana tapes like this to people over usenet. Seems like a long, long time ago...

/old? Yeah, probably.

Hey, they forgot to put everything in misshapen frames.

Flying toasters?

/DNRTFA

revvoice: The Geocities-izer

I could play with this site all day...

Oh that dancing baby.. he's such a cutie.

Not surprisingly the geocities-ized Fark isn't much worse than the current layout.

\didn't get over it

Impasse: revvoice: The Geocities-izer

I could play with this site all day...

Oh that dancing baby.. he's such a cutie.

Not surprisingly the geocities-ized Fark isn't much worse than the current layout.

\didn't get over it

Looks like the Conversatron.

Shaylen: Ah the days of dial up and napster. I remember picking a song to download and then waiting overnight for it to finish.


My first foray into napster was in a college dorm, where downloads took a few minutes. A buddy of mine would come visit and would tell me I didn't know how good I had it with speed like that. It was the only thing I knew.

He said he would set up downloads before bed and wake up to half of them crashing and the other half just finishing.

csb to me

bigmattress: He said he would set up downloads before bed and wake up to half of them crashing and the other half just finishing.

The cool thing about Napster was that it didn't download a file from whoever had it, you picked a specific file from a specific person. If that person logged out halfway through, your download would be cancelled.

The transfer speed of our server is limited to 8 kB/s («dial-up» speed).



/hot like spaghetti

good thing I can alt tab back into exploration of this dwemer ruin while I wait for it to load. . .

Father_Jack: then we thought we were all high tech when we upgraded to photoshop 5.5 and used homesite because it COLOR CODED tags. we were so l337.

GoLive CyberStudio was the bomb back when it came out.

It was better at syncing to an FTP server back then than Dreamweaver is today.

sprawl15: The cool thing about Napster was that it didn't download a file from whoever had it, you picked a specific file from a specific person. If that person logged out halfway through, your download would be cancelled.

I used to user Hotline servers back then, remember downloading an OS 8 beta over 4th of July on dialup, I think it took 13 hours.

There was a lot of "No goddamn it, you can't use the phone, I'm downloading a beta!"

That late beta of OS 8 got me a job because the new computers were coming with it and no one else they'd interviewed had used it yet.

I remeber trying to transfer Joe Montana Football to my friend across the street over what couldn't have been more than a 2400 Baud modem.

Less than 2 MB. Would take hours. Somebody would always pick up the phone and screw up the connection.

It was also fun to pick up the phone and dial randomly to disconnect your sibling when you wanted to get on the computer.

Ah. When coding a whole website by hand was a piece of cake and I could scour my Extensions and Preferences folders by hand and weed out the crap manually.

MisterDoctor: The transfer speed of our server is limited to 8 kB/s («dial-up» speed).

[s3.amazonaws.com image 360x360]

/hot like spaghetti

Pretty much this. I was interested in this, but I've not got all afternoon to check it out.

/Or rather, I do, but that would cut into doing...y'know...fun things.

Sloth ate my balls.

/yes, I loved those retarded sites.

Connecting....Connecting.... Connecting....

Oh, yes, that does remind me of 1997.

*clicks AOL button*
*nothing happens*
*rage*

Shaylen: Ah the days of dial up and napster. I remember picking a song to download and then waiting overnight for it to finish.

A SONG? Why would you download a ... oh, you said Napster, nevermind. I was thinking of other p2p services.

to4dcoder: I'm more curious as to why the designer made the screens roll as though they were being filmed, as to my understanding the naked eye does not suffer this effect.

Some very old screens used to do that when you looked at them. Some rastering error, but it was common enough. They made some unpleasant sounds sometimes, too, and occasionally unpleasant or worrisome smells as well.

a/s/l?

The internet wayback machine has always been slow. I used to have rooftop235.com and wayback had it. took forever to load.