I remember clicking on a website and getting ABSOLUTELY BOMBSRDED WITH NEVERENDING POPUPS OF HARDCORE PORN PICS AND SOUND and my parents were behind me, and you just panic reboot the computer.
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JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Reeeeeaalllllllyyyy putting on the rose tinted goggles, here…
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s funny because I definitely remember this happening while using Netscape Navigator to access our Prodigy-peovided internet.
filcuk@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Yeah that’s not how I remember the early Internet.
More like gifs everywhere, wild colours, you have to have that fancy html marquee! And terrible layouts, because aligning divs is difficult.
Good times
hinterlufer@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
don’t forget autoplay video and music
TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Landing pages, too. Often with a corny Shockwave animation.
Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Those mouse cursor tracers lol
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Why deal with float when you can use a table?
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
divs were added in the late 90’s… that is not what I’d call early internet
filcuk@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I mean, it may be subjective, but Internet was open to public in '93, and divs were specced in '97.
It was more of a joke anyway. The layouts were often tables long after divs if I’m not mistaken
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Yeah, definitely subjective, but to me the early days of the web were before HTML 2 - so up to 1995.
And yeah, so many tables for a long time… Mostly because it was a bit messy to work with and had limitations, not to mention browser support requirements and a pretty fast moving sets of specs…
It was fun though.