Cool vintage web design/tech thread

Cool vintage web design/tech thread

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warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
wiby.me
zombo.com
aleph.se/Trans/
user.pa.net/~nrwing/whataguy/banbread/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_button
astalavista.box.sk/
ashtravels.tripod.com/
qsl.net/kd4cga/satintro.htm
advsys.net/ken/default.htm
khzae.net/
uffsite.net/
pointlesssites.com/showcase.asp
dmoztools.net/
squaresoftwizard.tripod.com/
heavensgate.com/misc/ovrview.htm
boredmob.com/downloadzz/main.htm
nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/
danluu.com/
amishrakefight.org/gfy/
people.cs.umass.edu/~verts/index.html
yyyyyyy.info/
riscos.org/index.html
theofficialhavasupaitribe.com/
Sup
kyaa.ch
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

that looks like ass

>that one time when you fell for the driving car screamer

i want back

warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

wiby.me

>surprise me

vidlii.com :^)

Milennial fag detected

No, user, youtube in its entire existence has been in the millenial's domain.

You have to go early 90s if you want to claim territory.

go to bed reddit

it gave me archlinux.org lamo

I remember how youtube had video descriptions on the right side back in the day, and I remember even better how much I was involved in complaining against those changes, but I don't remember how ffing ugly this was. Was I objectively wrong back then or am I wrong now, or is there no objectivity to whichever view I held?

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You probably like flat fisher price children's book garbage with 100,000 lines of bloated css and javascript just for a white or pastel background and no borders or basic elements of graphic design

What happened to it? I remember some warez site after that, astalavista

zombo.com

I feel like I saw this in 2002 or 2003. It was the funniest thing I ever saw for some reason.

This site let you easily spoof the your "From" address. So nice for pulling pranks in high school.

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I don't remember the audio being such low bit rate.

>click surprise me
>leads to a page that loads instantly
>even on this ancient T60

This is the future we could have had.

Fuck that video.

It was an actual ad on TV in Finland or some shit too. Could you imagine being zoned out at 3am and that shit comes on?

all these websites are before the whole "margins" meme
some genius thought it is better to have the screen full of empty spaces, and all the options hidden behind hamburger buttons

>aleph.se/Trans/
Wut.

Still this shit is cool as fuck.
>loads instantly
>clear, easy to read and navigate
>all topics laid out in concise format
>consistent appearance across all resolutions
>no javascript
>no redirects
>no clickbait
>no gay Helvetica clone fonts that download in the background
>no google APIs in the background
>no facebook/twitter buttons
>no autoplaying videos that follow you (fuck this one especially)
>no bloated HTML5/CSS filler for plebs
Classic web was objectively a better design.

Now that's some shit.

I remember when AOL hired those ANT guys to do video game new in the late 90s. Wish I had some pictures.

You forgot the popups before blockers were a thing, and fonts were worse in the 90s than today.

No, I remember. Maybe it's nostalgia goggles but I find dumb popups to be far less annoying than an unmutable, unpausable "Hi, I'm gaylord for CNET, let's take a look at the gayphone 6" cunt video that just plays itself in the background.

I would probably think differently if I actually went back.

>hamburger buttons
kek

Sure it doesn't look as good but it was a hell of alot more functional and didnt lag out when trying to load comments and shit

I think you have it completely wrong, user.

BAN BREAD NOW
user.pa.net/~nrwing/whataguy/banbread/
this is some alex jones shit

I appreciate the kek, but that is the specific name
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_button

>Cool
I got ADHD because of that design. fucking stop bombing my brain with all of that unnecessary information. Javascript was a mistake but on the other hand I can control which scripts can run

the ADHD comes from notifications
having information available doesn't mean you have to be distracted by it
you can focus in what you are interested in easily

fuck... I kinda want to eat some bread now

Fuck CSS.

>some genius thought it is better to have the screen full of empty spaces

Better that than pages stretching out 500 characters long on a widescreen monitor.

astalavista.box.sk/
This here?
Fits in thread perfectly though

Joke
Your head

All the places this guy poo in loo

ashtravels.tripod.com/

qsl.net/kd4cga/satintro.htm
Unironically super interesting.

I miss finding interesting information on the web that I never thought about before.

You realize millennials were too young to even experience most of early YouTube?

You on here, ken?

advsys.net/ken/default.htm

khzae.net/
Gopher and chan related stuff.

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>2006 is ancient

It is in terms of technology.

1024*768 screen? Ancient.
1.8GHZ CD processor? Ancient.
2GB of RAM? Ancient.

Everything posted here is better than most sites nowadays

If you didn't make your page with notepad you didn't REALLY make anything.

It's actually quite pathetic really, isn't it?

uffsite.net/
I miss meticulously aligned cropped images using tables.

I agree on classic web being the best, but that website is far from perfect.
>contract between black.white, and blue is too high
>font is too small
>line height too cramped
>text stretches out too wide
You could improve the readability and UX of that site with some very minimal CSS (

pointlesssites.com/showcase.asp

I remember imagemaps

dmoztools.net/
Can find some old sites on this. The anime and vidya ones are good.

squaresoftwizard.tripod.com/
> Site last updated 10/28/2002 4:35PM EST

;_;

Digital ghost towns always makes me sad.

All of the websites like this are like ghosts that never really died. A reflection of the past, that's just as vivid as it was. Unable to move forward, but always present.

>heavensgate.com/misc/ovrview.htm
o-oh...

Old doesn't mean good you hipster cunt

boredmob.com/downloadzz/main.htm

Still better then modern flat design.....

Remember when people on Sup Forums used to mock people that went on youtube and were disgusted by the UI?

I'm first year CS student and I despise these god damned design units.

'good' website designs are always featured as the fucking splash-screen, background video, scroll down to reveal more and swipe to find information type shit. These universities just continue to teach that more and more abstraction of complexity away from the user is good and that the ideal design is so any retard can use it.

I remember shilling for obongo on Sup Forums back then

this was made by an user btw. I’m surprised it’s still up, he made a thread a year or two (or more?) back.

It makes me wonder how much further things can go before there's a pushback.

Did you forget that back then just about every asshole would think they're cool for having MIDI music playing the moment you connected to their website?

I never really got that all that often. In fact the only site I can remember with that was a single GeoCities Pokemon page.

X360 had 512mb ram, lol

What are some active sites still rocking basic looks?

nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/

>I'm first year CS student
>I know more about design than my professors
ah the classic freshman angst

I'm a millenial born in mid-1993 and made my first account there some time in late 2005/early 2006 so you are objectively wrong af

>the ideal design is so any retard can use it
thats objectively correct though you stupid autist

Why should a powerful and complex tool not require learning how to use it?

>all those retards not realizing that they are only non-millenials if they are 36+

Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe are widely credited
with naming the millennials.[2] They coined the term in 1987, around
the time children born in 1982 were entering preschool, and the media
were first identifying their prospective link to the new millennium as
the high school graduating class of 2000.

>powerful and complex tool
>displaying a restaurants opening hours
You got the wrong idea about the web. 90% of it is mundane tasks and quick&dirty information. The interface is also dead easy. You can scroll up/down and click on links, that's it. If a user enters restaurantname.com into the URL bar, he should see a link similar to "Opening hours" right on the first page and clicking that should show him the opening hours, done. Anything more complex than that should be in the trash, where it belongs.

>danluu.com/
holy fuck is this a Sup Forums goldmine?

>amishrakefight.org/gfy/

Oh early Internet, why did it all have to go so wrong.

>why can't I hold all these feels

I miss MIDI.

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I like when you see Sup Forums-like people pop up.
people.cs.umass.edu/~verts/index.html

There's a point where you think "This is great! He's really improvi-" and then it just keeps going and going and going. Right around removing the borders is a good stopping point.

>it's not even centered
but why does it looks nice?

Because it has a personal, almost intimate, touch.

>yyyyyyy.info/
what the actual fuck

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riscos.org/index.html

Interesting this thread popped up I just found this website today

theofficialhavasupaitribe.com/

never got into the 360/ps3 gen of consoles, but i did use an xbmc theme that looked like that on my xbox

I do not regret the time where you needed Flash Player to play videos.

If only webdevs cared about performance

The issue is that most computers are powerful enough now that they don't need to care about performance.

>now that they don't need to care about performance.
>opening more than one tab of amazon will make any computer crawl down to 2fps and maybe freeze for a bit

how do you quote like that

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Doesn't affect them, and doesn't matter much to the users either or they'd stop using it ;^)

Sup Forums.org/

I've been toying around with making my website entirely with textfiles and tags because of Gopher.

>kyaa.ch
what the fug?

Was 1989 a year of GNU desktop?
Look God damn comfy.