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- crgnetworks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+211At least the 503 error hasn't changed!
- hockey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+160In Web2.0 "Stop by and sign my guestbook" has been replaced with "Stop by and comment on my blog"
- scorpy01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+139You forgot guestbooks. Or was that 1996?
- Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -11/+125Seven things I wish I DIDN'T have to see on today's web:
1) Blogs
2) MySpace and Facebook
3) Flash (especially Flash ad banners)
4) "Ads by Google"
5) "After the Jump"
6) Those double-underlined links that pop-up little AJAX-based ads
7) "...but will it blend?" - silverchrysalis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+114what about those awful green 'led' hit counters?
- iluvdrbonner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+107How bout those really neat images that trail the mouse?!?! Like hearts and kittens!
- arbulus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+103A Tripod or Angelfire site wouldn't be complete without "Stop by and sign my guestbook then take my poll. You're the 00724 th Visitor here"
- audiooeric, on 10/12/2007, -0/+98What about Webrings? Does anyone remember those horrid things? How far we have come...
- Broomie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+97I was surprised cheesey MIDI background music wasn't mentioned. So many fansites I would goto to hear a horribly composed version of Power Rangers or Jonny Be Good playing in the background. I cringe when I still see sites carrying that "feature."
- SeBBBe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+82For those of you who didnt surf back in 1999:
http://web.archive.org/web/19990117033828/http://www2.microsoft.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/19991128174119/nintendo.com/home/index.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19990125102227/www.playstation-europe.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/19990117074053/http://www.apple.com/index.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19990117032727/http://www.google.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/19990125091051/http://netscape.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/19990125093146/www.altavista.com/
The probably most notable difference is that pages back then were plain awful. Your IQ actually drops when using them. - LoopyChew, on 10/12/2007, -1/+75What about the animated "Under Construction" .gif file that was everywhere?
- DDoSAttack, on 10/12/2007, -4/+65Here's a mirror because it's down...
http://duggmirror.com/design/7_Things_you_don_t_see_in_Websites_today/ - pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+60Or 15 animated gifs in the margin.
- RadicalEdward, on 10/12/2007, -1/+56Myspace is the epitome of 1995 web design. Crappy music playing over an animated tiled background with big black tables with big red text.
- geoken, on 10/12/2007, -5/+59You should have included a spam link to your blog, then you'd have the trifecta;
1)useless post
2)sig
3)blogspam
Anyway, 2 for 3 isn't that bad. - Fredtheviking, on 10/12/2007, -1/+54You are all forgeting the dancing hamster page!
- ZombyWoof78, on 10/12/2007, -0/+49Well at least web sites no longer look like this. http://sendmeaninternet.com/
- jhourcle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+48I think it's called a 'blogroll' these days.
- jjmac, on 10/12/2007, -2/+50That's because you have obviously never experienced the lightning speeds of 56k modems.
- sleze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+47I guess you've never seen a myspace webpage
- GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41Ads by Google are a god send. I'm just glad we are getting rid of the pointlessly flashy adverts that everyone had to block. You see a lot of ads now because they are not intrusive enough to worry about blocking, that's a good thing since it saves my clicking finger. When they used huge animated pictures or even flash movies it truly was hell on tubes. Then again perhaps people still do that ***** and I don't notice thanks to adblock plus.
- gmagana, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41you don't see HTML tables anymore? right...
- jspegele, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41"the web just got more cleaner"
But unfortunately, grammar has gotten more worser. - DiggingDeep, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37there sure are a lot of numbered lists though
- aposter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36Yeah, I wanted to find the people who originally started that trend and hit them in the heart with kittens. God, those things were annoying. The only thing worse was the blink tag. At least the inventer of that one has publicly stated that it was an abomination and he is sorry for inflicting it on humanity.
- aussieNickuss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34I remember the big fat hit counters at the bottom of every page. Also the animated gif page backgrounds.
- TimDigg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37I was....
AOL 3.0 bitches....
password generators,punters, IMBombs, and all.......
who WASN'T a script kiddie back in those days
remember AOHell..... - dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -4/+37"you don't see HTML tables anymore" (Took away the ~sarcastic bit so I can rant about the lack of tables used in these shiney "Web 2.0" sites)
AND YOU SHOULD.
The "I must use CSS for evvveerything, tables mean my site isn't cool anymore!" mentality is silly. Tables have very valid uses, and are far more.. reliable than CSS - CSS layouts are easy to screw up, I've seen lots that break if you use a small browser-window, or ones that are a fixed-width when they really shouldn't be (*Glares at Digg without a userStyles.org fluid-width stylesheet..*)
Aside from the fancy bury-animations, digg's comments for all intents and purposes would be just as effective in tables, and possibly less CPU-intensive while loading up pages with lots of comments..
Yes, using tables for layouts isn't partiuclarly flexible (And in a lot of cases, CSS is better than tables *for layout*), but completely dismissing tables for the sake of not using tables is stupid. - sleze, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33"Wordpress blogs that can surivive low to moderate traffic" was left off the list
- comradeTJH, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29I think there were less "Service Temporarily Unavailable" messages back then...
- WesleyJohnson, on 09/25/2009, -0/+28Marquee's anyone? The annoying scrolling was bad enough, but the worst thing was having to sound like you were 5 all over again stuttering out the words and they slowly crept onto the screen. I just want to read the message already!
- jonr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29Right. I'm still seeing those horrible "click here to enter" flash intro pages....
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27If you view the source on DuggMirror you can see this guy is using the WP-Cache plugin which serves a static page instead of querying the mySQL server every page load. This is no more load than serving an ordinary static HTML page. Chances are this guy's web host cut him off.
- phoopee3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29It's like, you can make it table-less and spend 3 hours tweaking it for all browsers, or whip it together in a table in 5 minutes. Blah. I've done both, but it depends how much time I have to finish the project, haha.
- ChumpChief, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27And the animated email icon to send a message to the creator of the site. Like you ever had anything to say to him.
- VSack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Behold the self-importance of the Blogger.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26"Best Viewed In - Remember that phrase, you would see it everywhere! This site is “Best viewed in IE 5.5 or Netscape 6″ coupled with the screen resolution also being stated. This warning was enough for me to just leave the site and never never return. The only sites that still use that wording are the ones that haven’t updated their sites in years, or still employ the same people who run Win 98 SE on their computers. Hello! People it’s 2007…see we have this thing called Firefox, you can even see it from the sky. In fact here is a community message from Pizza Hut."
Actually, most of these Web 2.0 sites have that dumb corner banner that says "Get Firefox!" and some even refuse to show you the content if you're not using Firefox or Opera.
Most of these things are actually still around in a lot of the recent Web 2.0 garbage, too. Seriously, look around. You'll find "2.0" examples of all this stuff. - BufordT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26Awful green led hit counters are the *****!!!
- unloud, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27One word: iFrames.
- thatjoekid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Flaming text logos and "snowing" background effects... man I loved Geocities!
- orlyfactor, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27I have a problem with his complaining about tables. I tried to convert to full CSS using DIV's and what not for the site I take care of at work. What a gigantic pain in the ass. Tables are just so much easier and don't require me to throw my laptop across the office because the elements just don't want to line up properly.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22All those badges or buttons or whatever. "Delicious it!" "Digg it!" Whatever all the other social sites are. I've seen some lame blogs with like 90 buttons with a 5x5 pixel logo for the site, so you have no idea what it is until you click it.
Honestly, Web 2.0 is just Web 1.0 with rounder corners. - thatsiebguy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25blink BLINKING TEXT! OMFG! /blink
- WesleyJohnson, on 09/25/2009, -0/+22....wait, those aren't cool anymore?
*loads up interdev* - phoopee3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Is this list a sign that I'm getting old? haha... "Those whipper-snappers with their fancy rounded corners! Back in my day we had green LED counters and that was good enough!"
- PARAPA, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Reminds me of the ***** buttons/frames.
Also the POWERED BY BRAVENET icons!
Ahh I miss the old days :( - Eazy~e, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16If anyone wants to see these in action, check out a little site called MYSPACE.COM
Everyone one of those is in action at any given time! - dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15They are still everywhere, but now they're disguised as the "beta"-suffix
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I would have thought those were a thing of the past if I wasn't blacklisting them on AdBlockPlus so often.
- dlinkwit27, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I was just thinking that. Scrolling Marquees were the sure sign of a "1337 Webmaster" back in the day. I remember my first "webpage" that I built using expage.com. Scrolling marquee and animated s made me the coolest kid in the 6th grade!
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