And Now
Not really, but you get the idea.
Posted on 04/06/2015 11:05:14 AM PDT by kingattax
What did LinkedIn look like the first time you visited the site in 2003?
How ugly was Yahoo! in 1994?
We found the earliest versions of some of the most visited websites today, like Facebook, Google and Buzzfeed.
Here's what the sites looked like then, and what they look like now. Web design has come a long way — oh, and the ads have gotten a lot fancier.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Ha. The AOL home screen. How I remember that.
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.
Many were better in the old days. I don’t want to watch time-consuming videos, give me something to READ.
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.
“Italians off!”
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.
And Now
Not really, but you get the idea.
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.
bump
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!]
Whitehouse.gov has gotten a whole lot uglier with a big picture of Bummer on the home page.
In Jim Thompson’s defense, we care about CONTENT here, not STYLE.
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.
In Jim Thompson’s 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.
The only thing, I mean only thing I would ask Jim to change is to add a “Return to top of page” button.
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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