in 1996 the university of alberta let departments manage their own homepages

[vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net]

in 1996 the university of alberta let departments manage their own homepages

mwah. 🤌

#smallWeb #1990s #worldwideWeb #webpreservation

[codingitwrong@oldbytes.space]

@vga256 connecting some maybe obvious dots: is the iPhone what made responsive design a must and therefore killed unique looking web sites?

[vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net]

@CodingItWrong partly, I think. a much bigger killer was Wordpress and other CMS packages with themes.

[doubleaa@social.lol]

@vga256 @Radgryd It’s beautiful. 🥲

[radgryd@mstdn.games]

@doubleaa @vga256 I miss the magical stage of the DIY web.

[michaelgemar@mstdn.ca]

@vga256 @nev “Graphic design is my passion” said some grad student.

[tknarr@mstdn.social]

@Radgryd @doubleaa @vga256 I miss when Web developers/designers actually knew how to write HTML.

[0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange]

@CodingItWrong @vga256 there’s no reason a responsive design can’t be unique or quirky. It’s just that the web became vastly more corporate.

(my own Classical Chinese website is based on a responsive template but customized to make it more artistic https://厄.net/classicalchinese/ )

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@tknarr @Radgryd @doubleaa @vga256

was that ever the case? My memory of the late nineties was a lot of Flash and sites made in that horrible “designer” (Publisher? what was the name?)