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@ajsadauskas @neil @asklemmy Looks amazing!
My only question is about whether drop shadows on text was prominent. Iβm having trouble remembering how that effect would have been accomplished in the 90s, since I donβt think CSS got it until later. Would it have been something on the <font> tag only supported in Internet Explorer?
@ajsadauskas @neil @asklemmy As for chat, probably the best way to do that today is to use Web Sockets but style it to look like frames or a Java applet on the page.
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A little music player with a playlist that plays that eras music. Links to retro sites that no longer exist that actually work, that way we can bring the internet of the past back.
You need to offer something banal for download with a spinning stiffy disk gif.
Add a visitor counter like this one - https://retrowptheme.com/retro-visitor-counter/
for more vintage gif's check this website - https://gifcities.org
That site would have been considered remarkably beautiful and aesthetically pleasing. As such it's not quite realistic.
Much too legible. I recommend less contrast for the text.
I don't see you playing with alignment? I would like more centered text personally. And long lines of text without breaks.
Why not throw in some "lorem ipsum" placeholders.
Are you using a WYSIWYG editor?
Where are your dancing hampsters?
Also is this before or after it became trendy to copy/paste all sorts of scripts into the html? Remember scrolling text on the status bar, how about those ascii things that follow your mouse around?
I'd keep an eye on your page's size, remember we would be loading this on 56k dialup modems... if we were lucky!
Also remember the nearest comparison to building a website, was a book, magazine, or newspaper. So just plop those text and images down as if it was a book, only ever intended to be viewed at one fixed resolution (say, 800x600). No smartphones yet. No apps to inspire us. No web 2.0. No emphasis on minimalism or dynamic content.
Unexpected and unpleasant things should happen with different browsers, window sizes, etc.
use html tables with large borders ... or that is how I feel the old times look
My bank still uses HTML tables in some parts of their website. Im sure its fine but it makes me cringe a bit whenever I see it.
Needs a blink tag and some old style Microsoft Word art.
I miss midis.
β€blink>
Under construction!
Adding some inspiration from well-developed 90s sites via the Wayback Machine.
These will take a while to load and will appear broken. The Wayback Machine is a free service hosted on the Internet Archive and bandwidth isnβt cheap!
This list of sites is, of course, from the frame of view of a kid growing up in the United States in the 1990s. I visited a lot of other sites but I can't remember them - I only remember the ones I visited in the early 2000s that didn't exist in the 90s.
The cat art style doesnt look 90ish to me
You've got the under construction gif. Done.
It should work at 640x480 and no other resolution.
Spinning wordart!
I recommend a "gallery" of photos of whatever topic you want, but probably something obscure like your favorite McDonalds playgrounds or of you holding up fish you've caught. The resolution on the pictures can't more than 640x480 tho.
Nice start, this is very nostalgic! If you ever had an old Geocities, Tripod, or even MySpace back in the day, check out the Way Back Machine and look for that old URL for some inspiration.
I recommend the following suggestions to build upon this better:
General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]
Table './that90ssite/phpbb_sessions' is marked as crashed and should be repaired [145]
An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.
Use of marquees is a violation of the Geneva convention. You monster.
I forgot to add - I believe Kirby was popular as ASCII art in the 90s.
Get this Kirby dance on that web site somewhere ASAP:
<(^_^<)
<(^_^)>
(>^_^)>
Needs an animated gif that doesn't properly render transparency, so the background is just a solid color.
Dont forget a crusty jpeg
Oh man -- you need a blink tag on some of that text. Support for the tag has been removed from all modern browsers.
So you'll need to add it in with javascript that updates CSS or something.
I think CSS animations are enough, no JS needed
Oh yeah, maybe so!
The world does need a bit less JS on websites :(
It has a cat gif I don't think it needs anything else I'm sorry
Background audio player that automatically plays some crusty grunge midis
256 colors. Especially for that background. Or maybe even less and use dithering.
Visitor counter
This! I remember putting one on a site I built way back then
Uppercase all of your html elements in the markup. Image mapped links. A background that doesn't quite tile properly. Max width 800px
And like a gif of a skull opening his mouth that shows a flame "E-mail" materialize from it or something.
Fun idea. ASCII Art!