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Needs a blink tag and some old style Microsoft Word art.
Fun idea. ASCII Art!
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/
use html tables with large borders ... or that is how I feel the old times look
Guestbook didn't work, after recaptcha it just said POST failed. Oh and you need a visitor counter!
Custom curors that animate at rest and during loading so you're not sure which part of the curors clicks, and also not sure sure if something is being loaded or not. Bonus points if the cursor changes to yet another ambiguous animated one as you hover over a tiny button which would pause the midi track.
The midi file doesn't play automatically, but I see that's a thing your working on.
Also need gifs of Bart Simpson saying "Don't have a cow man"
Comic Sans MS
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.
You need some βimportantβ data thatβs in an unstyled bulky table. You also need some horizontal rules on the page to split up content.
Can we have a globe please that magically spins?
Background audio player that automatically plays some crusty grunge midis
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.
Add a visitor counter like this one - https://retrowptheme.com/retro-visitor-counter/
for more vintage gif's check this website - https://gifcities.org
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
@ajsadauskas @linux Image maps? <marquee>? A digital view counter, or one of those gifs of a spinning odometer.
A link that goes to a clip art digger saying 'under construction' in 90s office clip art.
That cat is way too high res
I love it! Takes me right back. I was going to suggest adding a visitor counter but you already had it.
Spinning wordart!
You need to offer something banal for download with a spinning stiffy disk gif.
It should work at 640x480 and no other resolution.
Needs an animated gif that doesn't properly render transparency, so the background is just a solid color.
Line by line loading images, maybe an error message saying the connection dropped with the modem sound playing to restart the page.
This is going on my bookmarks toolbar. Thank you!
One of those Java applets at the bottom that looks like water reflecting the site background perhaps?
@[email protected] @[email protected] I think I actually have a few of my 90s-era sites archived. One of them should have an auto play midi for the background music. I'll see if I can dig it up!
@[email protected] @[email protected] I actually started down this path a little while back and have since gotten sidetracked.
I think that maybe not knowing how to make the embedded midi auto-play is more authentic!
But I used to use Autostart=true in the Embed tag.
You've got the under construction gif. Done.