And Now
Not really, but you get the idea.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I remember freerepublic in the days before the internet.
At one time it was just a small ad in the Yellow Pages, with a 1-800 number to call in your opinion.
A thread could take days to go back and forth, yet only end up with 20 or 30 replies, plus locals had the advantage because the long distance rates back then were a killer.
Wild times.
Recently moved and in the process I was going thru what to keep and throw away. There was a card with bulletin board phone numbers with bit and parity setting...oh my....I thought it was so cool to read those.
I can remember when Monster.com had actual “monsters” that supposedly carried out the various functions of the site.