1990s websites

When the internet was first born, humanity did not seem to know how to design it properly. Websites were ugly, chaotic, messy, and disorderly. Often littered with animated .gif images that served no purpose. Only fonts available seemed to be Times, Comic Sans, and Arial

See the example below of the official Space Jam movie website below. It has been online since 1996.

Space Jam

Good god man, what were they thinking?

Glad those days of horrid web design are long gone.

 

I remember a lot of websites back in the 90s just like that with little or no direction.

Heaven's Gate - How and When It May Be Entered

 

I had an angelfire website.

 

Css which is the language that handles alot of the presentation of modern websites was just in it's infacy and maybe not even around at the time of that website in the OP. So HTML basically had to handle both the markup of the site and the presentation.

There were also a relatively limited number of fonts and stuff, also loading time was slower and less storage space, so images and what not came at a premium.

 

MSN chat rooms.

 

You know what. I kind of like them. I like that Space Jam website.

 

All the drop down fancy nonsense that websites are today seems unnecessary. We have much better internet now. If we'd kept it all simple, everything would run so quickly. Maybe that's just me because I live in the middle of nowhere and the internet is sometimes really bad... and gmail won't load, but it'll offer to let me load the html version. and I think... do I even need a newer version, ever? not really.

 

Yeah all that... Flash, Java shit...
Look I just wanted to look at a few tour dates not a fucken animated webpage that I can't navigate, fellas.

 

I like it too. It made me feel nostalgic

 

Glad the days of horrible website design are gone, the man types into his plum on purple IFrame.

 

I read the first 10 points on Statement by an E.T. Presently Incarnate and thought that most those points wouldn't seem out of place on Hipforums. Slightly disturbing.

 

Very recognizable, especially on my phone. It could be so perfect but no, lots of unneccesary shit to load.

 

The first one I used that had animations was actually the Insane Clown Posse website. Like it was cool but we were still on dial up so it wasn't cool at the same time lol.

I miss the simple websites even like nascar.com

Click race results and BAM there they are, now the results show up with fancy animations and drop down menus and like you can't even select all and paste into word to have a look-see.

Now that internet is better like I guess I don't notice it much anymore, but in all honesty, sometimes it's just easier to go one Facebook to look for concerts, sports results etc. than it is to go to a specifix website.

 

Do you even remember how slow a 56K modem really was?

 

I remember that dial up noise
Rrrrhhhhhhhzzzzrrhhhzzzzrrhrhhhhhrrrrrzzzzzzzzzzzrzrzrzzzzz

 

I remember a lot of "GB get off the goddamn computer, I need to make a call."

 

I remember we had to take the phone line out and I'd be up at all hours having cyber sex with my girlfriend and then mum or dad would pull the plug and I'd be left there.. Alone.. Afraid.. I had no mobile phone to text her.. I always had to tell her if I go off line then my parents pulled the chord but I hated it. I hated just being logged off like that.

 

You got mail.

 

Those were the days. I'd be up all night chatting. You could nuke people's computers then, too, shut them down remotely. It was fantastic.

 

Oh man holy nostalgia.