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What 23 popular websites used to look like
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| MAR. 30, 2015
| JILLIAN D'ONFRO AND ALYSON SHONTELL
Posted on 04/06/2015 11:05:14 AM PDT by kingattax
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:05:14 AM PDT
by
kingattax
To: kingattax
Ha. The AOL home screen. How I remember that.
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:07:11 AM PDT
by
virgil283
(When the sun spins, the cross appears, and the skies burn red)
To: kingattax
How about what FR looked like when people forgot to close their tags?
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:10:32 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
To: kingattax
All I know is that the time formerly waiting for dialup is now more than wasted waiting for unasked for video files to load an run.
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:10:35 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: kingattax
Many were better in the old days. I don’t want to watch time-consuming videos, give me something to READ.
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:11:04 AM PDT
by
Veto!
(Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
To: kingattax
I’m glad that the Drudge Report has changed very little since the late 1990’s. That page, just like with Free Republic, is fine and need not be altered. I can easily scan the page and see what’s going on at that time. I almost never go the The Blaze anymore, because of the very aggressive advertisers who want you to watch their little movie before they ‘let you’ read the article.
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:11:50 AM PDT
by
lee martell
(The sa)
To: KarlInOhio
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:12:57 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: kingattax
47 pages of ads. This TurnPageNewAd webpage style is a BigTurnOff for me. But it is becoming more and more common so it must work.
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:14:49 AM PDT
by
InterceptPoint
(>http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss)
To: kingattax
FreeRepublic. Then.
And Now
Not really, but you get the idea.
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:17:00 AM PDT
by
Zeneta
(Thoughts in time and out of season.)
To: kingattax
It’s a hoot to telnet into old systems, like MUDs I used to play or old college Unix servers, and it is EXACTLY the same as it was 20 years ago... minus the vt52 dummy terminal.
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:17:01 AM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: lee martell
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:17:30 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
To: kingattax
Fancier is not necessarily better.
Many newer renditions are so filled with crappy pop-ups, self-running videos, etc., that they are impossible to view.
Reminds me of the early days ‘desktop publishing’. Some would use a dozen different fonts and colors — because they could. Gaudy!
K.I.S.S. [Keep It Simple, Stupid!]
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:17:41 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: kingattax
Whitehouse.gov has gotten a whole lot uglier with a big picture of Bummer on the home page.
To: Zeneta
In Jim Thompson’s defense, we care about CONTENT here, not STYLE.
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:21:55 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Support Principle: http://www.tedcruz.org)
To: kingattax
I must say I greatly prefer the WHitehouse.gov site...from 1996...for some reason
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:28:13 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: kingattax
Google looks the basically the same although a bit cleaner looking....Facebook and Amazon are an improvement and so is the New York Times although I don’t read it. Many look somewhat the same except maybe a different background or added background.
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:28:34 AM PDT
by
napscoordinator
(Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
To: Zeneta
this is the earliest I dould find. from 2008......using the wayback machine
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:32:38 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Uncle Miltie
In Jim Thompsons defense, we care about CONTENT here, not STYLE.
No defense needed.
I’m old, and I don’t need or want all the “Style” that most other sites tend towards.
I think it is genius for Google, Drudge and FreeRepublic to keep things simple.
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:34:01 AM PDT
by
Zeneta
(Thoughts in time and out of season.)
To: MeshugeMikey
The only thing, I mean only thing I would ask Jim to change is to add a “Return to top of page” button.
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:36:53 AM PDT
by
Zeneta
(Thoughts in time and out of season.)
To: Zeneta
yes the scroll time on some pages can be rather substantial.
why browser application coders havent included this as a functon of thier browsers is beyond me.
its a good thing we cant use javascript here or some troll might include a malicious snippet or two
such as this Javasript code:
http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/jsquake/
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posted on
04/06/2015 11:41:31 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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