Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
If the only people agreeing with your posts are a clear idiot or, worse, a guy who "ironically" espouses fascist views, maybe it's time for some self-reflection.
Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?
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In contrast with her generation, which had spent most of its time online learning to code so that it could add crude butterfly animations to the backgrounds of its weblogs, the generation immediately following had spent most of its time online making incredibly bigoted jokes in order to laugh at the idiots who were stupid enough to think they meant it. Except after a while they did mean it, and then somehow at the end of it they were Nazis. Was this always how it happened?
-Abraham Lincoln, designer of Helvetica
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Back in 1999, I made a beautiful HTML 1.0 commercial web page with twinkling stars that would expand to whatever resolution everyone's puny computers would work on back then, along with a gorgeous roll-over animation, all while squeezing it under whatever hardcore page size limit we were operating under back then. (80k, maybe?)
A completely worthless skill today, without even an enthusiast community that cares like, for instance, for the people who make buggy whips in 2025. (Well, more than one enthusiast community, in the case of artisanal whips.)
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Bruh.
In the '90s, I was making websites that liberally used the blink tag.
You're welcome.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
<BLINK> was nothing. <MARQUEE> was where it was at.
(Actually, both tags should have been considered war crimes.)
overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
I keep forgetting that gamers will literally litigate every minor point well passed the heat death of the universe.
Scribe
Legend
I recently hit some website, I cannot even remember what it was as I recoiled in horror, with all the worst sins of the Flash age made manifest and I just went into some kind of black out.
How we thought that stuff was even remotely worth exploring, I have no idea.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
It's hilarious that Flash, a vector for malware, stuck around for decades, while <BLINK>, which was merely obnoxious, was officially on the way out as early as 1996.
RealAlHazred
Frumious Flumph (Your Grace/Your Eminence)
I would love to encourage people to visit the Double Exposure homepage, which was the convention group that I used to manage RPGs for. Unfortunately, a few years ago, they finally moved providers to a company that prevented them from using marquee text and similar tricks, so it's pretty plain now. I still remember when it installed an applet that changed the cursor to a pointer-hand, that turned out to be malware...
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Something that always gets left out of Web 1.0 nostalgia.
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