Sorry but were you alive in the 90s? That tile background is way too big. Take it down to 128 x 128 anything bigger than that takes too long on my 56k. Also I don't see one frame or table border.
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2024
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Design is too mobile responsive
The great irony is: websites in the 90's would have been made to cater to resolutions of 640x480. Fancy monitor resolutions went up to 1024x768.
So, viewing it on a mobile screen should be nicer than what a full computer in the 90's could offer.
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This is going on my bookmarks toolbar. Thank you!
You need a dancing baby.
I just signed the guestbook leaving that exact suggestion and then read your comment, lol.
Not one person suggested a marquee. Wow.
Granted, the HTML tag is deprecated in the spec, but you can easily set up a marquee using CSS.
I had to go dig up the link again. Was looking for this folding license plate step thing I saw once, and found the sellers website. Looks like it is also straight out of the 90's
Check out maya.land. especially webmentions.
I don't know how to tag a user on lemmy. Is maya still around?
I'm also a big fan of confusing landing pages.
EDIT: an RSS feed for any website, old or new
Absolutely needs a hit counter.
You need some βimportantβ data thatβs in an unstyled bulky table. You also need some horizontal rules on the page to split up content.
Your text is too readable, I think it needs to be aliased a lot more. It also wasn't uncommon to see a black box around text. Your text looks good on the background, it shouldn't. There should be something between the text and background.
do you have a click counter at the bottom
Adobe flash.
Nah that was a 2000s thing. It existed, under different names and owned by different companies in the 90s up until 2005 when it was bought by Adobe but you wouldn't likely have seen flash elements on webpages. I think it was more of a vector drawing tool around that time.
Internet Explorer had an API called ActiveX, which let you run native code in the browser. Flash was an ActiveX object, but there were others available too. Adobe Shockwave was already available for Internet Explorer 3 in 1996 (https://news.microsoft.com/1996/06/03/microsoft-and-macromedia-deliver-shockwave-and-activex-to-millions-of-web-customers-and-developers/), and in the 90s you'd usually see either Shockwave or Java.
A precursor to Flash (FutureSplash) was already available in the 90s too, but it wasn't quite as popular yet.
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It's readable on mobile. You need to unfix that immediately. The font must not appear bigger than 5px. Responsive layout is forbidden.
Also, no popups. That's both retro and not retro enough. (Or were those introduced for the first round in the early 2000's? I don't know, I'm too young)
For the authentic experience, you need two versions of the site: An Internet Explorer version, and a Netscape version. The two browsers didn't support the same features back then, so a lot of sites would have two different versions.
Also run it on your own server and limit the transfer speed (can set a rate limit in the Nginx config) so it loads slowly :D
Needs 300% more skull trumpet.
My favorite version of the skull trumpet: Makes a man go doot doot
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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That cat is way too high res
there is a website for a pizza place in seattle whose website does this, maybe you can get some inspiration. dinos
Seems like it's missing one of those section break bars that's an animated rainbow
You need this image:
http://hwg.org/images/lo-025.gif
You can even go all out and actually join legitimately: http://hwg.org/services/logo/
You need to add some text with the RuneScape glow1:wave: text effect
I love it! Takes me right back. I was going to suggest adding a visitor counter but you already had it.
Comic Sans MS
Guestbook, hit counter, a midi file playing in the background, and a dead hyperlink to another page of the same website.
Edit: omg I can't believe I forgot about marquees. Do that too.
The problem is the MIDI file doesn't automatically play.
I was fully prepared for the experience from my teens. My first thought was "that loaded way too fast."
Visitor counter
Line by line loading images, maybe an error message saying the connection dropped with the modem sound playing to restart the page.