cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41252333
Also check this out if you played SimCity 2000:
https://imraf.github.io/real-mode/
You have to view on desktop, the mobile view works but then you miss the whole point of it.
Is it just nostalgia or were the website designs from the 2000s more unique, playful and with character? Responsive design and mobile web are a necessity, but I feel like they annihilated all creativity in web design.
The “standards” where not there, so all websites had to make things custom. I remember my wife making custom buttons for hers back in the day. It was so awesome.
Maybe you know about it, but neocities still has some of that charm. https://neocities.org/browse
I’ve seen some neocities sites, they are pretty cool.
I just wish some of the larger websites (gaming or otherwise) would make something similar for their desktop website and make a simple (non-responsive) mobile version.
It’s just nostalgia. The vast majority of those were either entirely devoid of content or entirely unusable.
Also, mostly Flash, so disqualified for human consumption by default.
I won’t argue against it being nostalgia driven (it’s a powerful thing), but most of those sites definitely did not use flash.
They were more unique and creative. Were they functional? Ehhh not always. But i still love it and with modern implementation id like to see more of it. It doesnt have to be dated. It can just be a creative difference. Not every single site has to use js and look like the 3 websites 99% of normies use.
Take baccyflap.com. I love this site and see no issues at all with it. Most people under 30 would run away screaming from this site (hyperbole) because they are conditioned by x, fb, and the tok.
I’d almost totally forgotten about webrings. Thanks for posting this for that reason if no other, it has a big list of webrings to explore.
Webrings are so fun
Foreshadowing of Nintendo’s future.
Except Wario isn‘t really there anymore. Probably because the greedy guy is running things in the background.
Love this kinda stuff. Thanks.
Where are the cookie popups? Where are the ads?
I definitely remember ads, and lots of them.
So you’re saying they were photoshoped out of these images?
No, I’m saying ads were plentiful, particularly as pop-ups, which would not be shown here.
the OG sims was fun
Damn, talk about coincidence. Just 5 minutes before looking at this here thread, I was looking at a forum thread from 2003 about Die Gilde (German economy simulation/city builder.)
