I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked

Re:I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of ... by adventured on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @01:31PM (#15020362)

There's always the famous Dole Kemp '96 campaign site (a fair representation of mid 1990s web design):

http://www.dolekemp96.org/main.htm

And this one from CNN (still 1996, but appropriate representation of that 1995/96 era when design had changed a bit from the earlier plain white backgrounds & basic text layouts):

http://edition.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/year.in.review/

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Re:I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of ... by mynameishere on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @11:16PM (#15024688)

I actually watched the debates and couldn't believe Dole closed out his first debate with Clinton imploring youngsters to "tap into" his "homepage" (the above link)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZhyS5OtPto&t=89m55s

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Re:I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of ... by macintux on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @03:45PM (#15021655)

Oh, man. Dole/Kemp was definitely designed in the "Make sure everything fits on a 640 × 480 display, and downloads reasonably fast on a 14.4k modem" era.

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Re:I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of ... by davehtaylor on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @02:02PM (#15020703)

I absolutely adore that CNN 1996 site. Man, designs like that were great.

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Re:I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of ... by mod on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @03:45PM (#15021645)

I agree--I think that design is wonderful.

The credits link & page are pretty bad, otherwise no complaints.

And hey, it still works well on small screens. Not flawless, but close.

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