• JackbyDev
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    2010 months ago

    Reeeeeaalllllllyyyy putting on the rose tinted goggles, here…

    • @[email protected]
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      1610 months 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

      • curbstickle
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        110 months ago

        divs were added in the late 90’s… that is not what I’d call early internet

        • @[email protected]
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          510 months 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
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            310 months 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      1110 months ago

      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.