What is Digg?730 Comments
- wildfire, on 01/26/2008, -11/+618It has just been replaced with MySpace.
- lickmyback, on 01/26/2008, -9/+570I dunno, I can't see a single annoying ad in any of those screenshots. Bring back the good old days.
- jdb762, on 01/26/2008, -13/+398In 1996, the Internet Archive began archiving the web for a service called the Wayback Machine. They've now archived 55 billion web pages. That's enough web pages that if you were to print them all out using your roommate's printer while he was at class and tape them end-to-end, you could reach the moon and back 28 trillion times.
The moon and back 28 trillion times = 56 trillion one-way trips to the moon. I'll round down and give them the benefit of the doubt.
55 trillion trips to the moon / 55 billion web pages equals 1000 trips to the moon per page. - 10goto10, on 01/26/2008, -5/+341< blink > Awesome! < /blink >
- socalrob, on 01/26/2008, -4/+288" The internet in 1996 looks like it had been created in its entirety by a panel of 13-year-olds with Geocities accounts who had about half an hour to spare each night before bedtime. "
Actually I was 13 in 1996 and had a geocities account. My website looked nothing like these craps. I had teh kool animated gif's and lots of scrolls and blinks! - sexualaj, on 01/26/2008, -14/+283You mean an Internet without;
LOLCats, 2girls1cup, Goatse, Numa Numa, Myspace, Ron Paul, Ask a Ninja, N64 kid, Wikipedia, Dancing baby, Facebook, TubGirl, Chuck Norris Facts,
Say It ain't so! - doctorfungi, on 01/26/2008, -0/+206I love it how the New York Times has a button for a "Low Graphics Version".
- krnldmp, on 01/26/2008, -0/+194In ten years we'll be reading stories about how flash turned corproate sites into a giant dildos.
- inactive, on 01/26/2008, -18/+201WOW BEFORE SOMETHING IMPROVES IT HAS TO BE WORSE.
INCONCEIVABLE. - ShaneMcDeath, on 01/26/2008, -3/+135Diggers. Big on maths and science. Not so big on humour.
- anderzole, on 01/26/2008, -2/+127the most shocking part of this article is that alta vista is still around.. what a fall from grace
anyone remember webcrawler? That was the search engine of choice back in 1995 - Phocion55, on 01/26/2008, -2/+125Back in 1996 your interwebs street cred was determined by how many AOL punter appz you had.
- wukillabee, on 01/26/2008, -3/+118in 12 years people are gonna say our current sites look like ***** lol..
- chingy1788, on 01/26/2008, -8/+112That's enough web pages that if you were to print them all out using your roommate's printer while he was at class and tape them end-to-end, you could reach the moon and back 28 trillion times.
hmmm
your roommate must be in class for a long long long time - inactive, on 01/26/2008, -16/+114"From Left to Right: Wizard on Bicycle, Wizard on Bicycle,
Wizard on Bicycle, Wizard on Bicycle, Wizard on Bicycle" - jnosanov, on 01/26/2008, -0/+93-modem squeal- ... finding local access numbers ... "You've got mail!"
Ah, history...
Oh wait some people still use AOL. Whoops. - SickMonkey, on 01/26/2008, -0/+89Alta Vista was my favorite search engine. I remember someone telling me about Google and I was like yeah, yeah, it will never be nearly as good. Back then everyone was using Netscape Navigator as a browser until Microsoft came in with IE and drove them out of business. And I remember getting the first flash plug-in from Macro Media and seeing animated icons in my browser for the first time. I thought it was amazing.
- MrHooper, on 01/26/2008, -5/+94Well... back in MY day, we didn't have any fancy dreamweaver, we used to code by hand. And Photoshop? Ha, it didn't have layers, and it certainly didn't support gif properly, so we had to use strange 3rd party apps just to make a gif or a jpg. CSS? what the hell is that? Tables didn't even work right in many cases. Since Netscape and Microsoft were trying to outdo each other on a daily basis, the rules changed all the time. What was orderly one week would break the next. You young whippersnappy turds think it was soooo easy to make a website in 96. Everything is easy when all you have to do is cry to get your diaper changed;)
- Aquabat, on 01/26/2008, -5/+91Hey, you gotta start somewhere.. Notepad HTML editing FTW. =P
- Tazmaster, on 01/26/2008, -0/+85Geocities page with animated chasers following the mouse cursor. MIDI music that played automatically with no option to turn it off. Hypnotic pixel image tiled for the background. Web traffic counter at the bottom and absolutely no content whatsoever. Pretty much like most myspace pages.
- badwithcomputer, on 01/26/2008, -18/+99and I thought I was bad with computers...
- smacksaw, on 01/26/2008, -0/+81In McDonalds' defence, they didn't have much time to get their website up since they had to get it from a lucky cybersquatter who won it from Wired Magazine when McDonald's passed on buying their own domain name.
- WolverineBlue, on 01/26/2008, -3/+82Those are corporate sites: the site IS the ad.
- ZoomBoy, on 01/26/2008, -0/+76I hope you had the mandatory "UNDER CONSTRUCTION" sign and a counter as well!
- Joomal, on 01/26/2008, -2/+781996 web design was incredibly tough! Most computer nerds if you were rich and lucky had a monitor that could display 1024x768 and around 19"-20" which was about $600+ at that time.
You had to design for people with 386s with 2400 baud modems and 640x480 screens that never knew how to reset the default screen size Windows 95 installed with.
On top of that, there was no such thing as css/xhtml. php was unheard of still and server space and bandwidth was very expensive! - SiRwhilms, on 01/26/2008, -5/+80.... I still use a text editor to make websites. It's called "doing it right"
- Error601, on 01/26/2008, -0/+71The browsers then didn't let you do a whole lot. A lot of people were still running 9600bps and less modems so you didn't want to throw a bunch of graphics at them.
- highPhone, on 01/26/2008, -0/+71< marquee > KIll me now! < /marquee >
- badwithcomputer, on 01/26/2008, -4/+74so...anyone else used to go into aol chatrooms MP3 1, MP3 2...or server 1, server 2....? people would have bots that sent you menus of their entire inbox, indexed to include albums track by track as email attachments. early p2p. good times. good times.
- lcmatt, on 01/26/2008, -1/+68"Please open your window to the width of this text"
Still works on Digg with the huge amount of white space on the right of these comments. - nbyn, on 01/26/2008, -3/+60Sadly, most people's MySpace page still looks like this.
- koven, on 01/26/2008, -4/+59It was just a joke.
Waits for whoosh comments... - weddle, on 01/26/2008, -7/+62All thanks to Al Gore!
- Frostman3D, on 01/26/2008, -4/+58It's not like it's that much better now.
- magicaltrevor, on 01/26/2008, -1/+54PLEASE OPEN YOUR WINDOW TO THE WIDTH OF THIS LINE OF TEXT.
- MindTrigger, on 01/26/2008, -0/+49Unlike most of you, I actually had a job creating websites back then. Finding art to use on a site was almost impossible, and since the world didn't take the web seriously yet, no company was putting graphic design resources into it. Essentially the art was clip-art found in programs like Corel Draw. Hell, I remember getting on GOPHER trying to find resources for my clients. No digital cameras either back then, so you scanned every photo you wanted to display.
HTML and browsers sucked then too. It was considered "advanced layout" if you used tables to arrange your site elements. Hell even the pictures you see here are advanced compared to the websites two years earlier. For a while there, the browsers did not even display background images. The background color of the websites was that old windows gray color. - Jones82, on 01/26/2008, -0/+49Wikipedia alone is more useful than then entire Internet was in the late 90's
- moocow1452, on 01/26/2008, -4/+50uh... *whoosh?*
- Krinkov, on 01/26/2008, -0/+46heres a time capsule from 96 thats still up, inexplicably. Warner Brothers official site for 'Mars Attacks' the movie.
http://marsattacks.warnerbros.com/ - Phocion55, on 01/26/2008, -9/+55Call me crazy, but web pages with fusica text and a tiled 200x100 picture of Justin Timberlake is a pretty sweet web design.
- Culero, on 01/26/2008, -2/+47< marquee >< blink > poop !< /blink >< /marquee >
- doctorfungi, on 01/26/2008, -39/+83An internet without Ron Paul... seems awesome.
- unicronband, on 01/26/2008, -1/+44How do I download the shockwave plug-in? Man, the internet in 1996 is serious business.
- Macskeeball, on 01/26/2008, -0/+43People have commented that Digg supposedly has ads over there.
- Joomal, on 01/26/2008, -0/+43AOL chatrooms? No, but IRC chatrooms worked well. Plus, BBSes still ruled the roost.
- Skod, on 01/26/2008, -0/+41I still do that, constantly. Even for PHP, CSS and the like. Makes my life a hell of a lot easier.
- joeglab, on 01/26/2008, -3/+44So what did your own website look like back in 1996?
- bitspace, on 01/26/2008, -6/+47Back in 1996, as with today, you were mocked for having any association with AOL.
- TheMarvel, on 01/26/2008, -0/+40Ah yes, good ol' Netscape with their funky animated logo in the corner. I remember staring at it for like 30 seconds each time (due to dial-up). Plus, Altavista was the bomb... I remember first learning to use the operator commands with them, I thought that was genius.
- Nekiruhs, on 01/26/2008, -2/+42"I take off my robe and wizard hat..."
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