There is not enough contrast or too much contrast between your text and the background.
What Iβm trying to say is that is too easy on the eyes to read the text. π
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2024
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Yes, the background pattern and colours should be chosen to actively interfere with reading any text on the page. For example, it's great if there's large patches of black in the background and the text is also black.
Flashing is also key. A lot of text should be flashing and there should be unreadable ticker tape text at random places.
My wife just added that it should have some background music.
Heres a site in the similar vain, https://anarchymeanything.com/
Guest book,
Webring
Visit counter
Good luck, i like the older internet so much nostalgia
It should work at 640x480 and no other resolution.
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.
Can we have a globe please that magically spins?
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"
Needs a blink tag and some old style Microsoft Word art.
Line by line loading images, maybe an error message saying the connection dropped with the modem sound playing to restart the page.
Background audio player that automatically plays some crusty grunge midis
256 colors. Especially for that background. Or maybe even less and use dithering.
You need some βimportantβ data thatβs in an unstyled bulky table. You also need some horizontal rules on the page to split up content.
Spinning wordart!
Comic Sans MS
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!
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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.
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Fun idea. ASCII Art!
@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.
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That cat is way too high res
Guestbook didn't work, after recaptcha it just said POST failed. Oh and you need a visitor counter!
Infinite popups, simulated of course now that most web browsers block popups.
@ajsadauskas @asklemmy You need to change the mouse cursor to anything but an arrow. Bonus points if it leaves a trail. Like a peace sign cursor that leaves a rainbow trail, or a clock face where the numbers fall off when it moves.
Needs more dancing Jesus
I love it! Takes me right back. I was going to suggest adding a visitor counter but you already had it.
This is going on my bookmarks toolbar. Thank you!
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
Oh man -- you need a blink tag on some of that text. Support for the tag has been removed from all modern browsers.
So you'll need to add it in with javascript that updates CSS or something.
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use html tables with large borders ... or that is how I feel the old times look
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@ajsadauskas@aus.social @asklemmy@lemmy.ml 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!
@ajsadauskas@aus.social @asklemmy@lemmy.ml I actually started down this path a little while back and have since gotten sidetracked.
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