List of oldest companies: Before 1300

Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by tobinfricke on Friday January 19, 2018 @01:13PM (#16188378)

* Loads instantly

* Provides all relevant information at a glance

Needs more Javascript?

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by mrweasel on Friday January 19, 2018 @01:54PM (#16188684)

And doesn't work as they intended, the links behind the picture isn't actually click-able.

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by djsumdog on Friday January 19, 2018 @07:54PM (#16191343)

Yea, same here on Vivaldi. It probably looks correct in Netscape Navigator.

Sites like this are pretty cool to stumble upon though. They are a snapshot in time. It's not even /that/ old. It takes you back to a simpler era where pages loaded on dialup.

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by culot on Friday January 19, 2018 @11:34PM (#16192069)

* Difficult to read

* Ugly as heck

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by patja on Friday January 19, 2018 @11:52AM (#16187645)

When you are successful and have stood the test of time, who needs a website? In 100 years or so, there probably won't be such a thing as html in popular use any longer.

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by zerr on Friday January 19, 2018 @12:30PM (#16187991)

The web design company (http://www.online-media-werbeagentur.de/) seems out of business though :)

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by ambrosite on Friday January 19, 2018 @01:12PM (#16188359)

The copyright date is 2006. It's amazing that a site design like this would have been built as late as 2006. It looks more like something from 1996.

Oh, and I just noticed that if you change the language to German, there is a link to a photo gallery:

http://www.luebeckaltstadthotel.de/tischbein.htm

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by jotm on Friday January 19, 2018 @01:52PM (#16188669)

I don't know what kind of websites you were using in 2006, but most small companies in Europe were literally just getting online, and their owners' ideas of design were vastly different than what the designers would recommend.

Those kind of simple HTML websites were going for over 1500 Euros, which is insane, since Wordpress and Drupal existed and had way better themes and functionality.

People just weren't interested or seeing the possibilities of the Web, even in 2006 (and even today!), they just got a website because it was a "new fad" or someone said they can get more customers.

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by zerr on Friday January 19, 2018 @02:00PM (#16188740)

Tell you honestly, I prefer these kind of informative websites rather than nowadays Bootstrap blobs, where you need to full-page scroll several times trying to get some idea but all you get is 3 large icons in a row and sometimes a big green button if you're lucky.

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by pwinnski on Friday January 19, 2018 @01:23PM (#16188431)

That might explain why the web design company is now out of business.

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by fcnfan on Friday January 19, 2018 @01:32PM (#16188507)

They probably changed the room rate and copyright year periodically

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by dizzystar on Friday January 19, 2018 @01:50PM (#16188654)

You apparently haven't tried looking for a web design house to work with lately. Maybe not that dated, but often 10 to 15 years behind the present times.

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by jcadam on Friday January 19, 2018 @09:20PM (#16191672)

Couldn't resist a look at the page source. Absolutely no javascript.

Oh, and:

  <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">

Nice :)

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by ambrosite on Friday January 19, 2018 @12:05PM (#16187763)

I love coming across old sites like that. So much nostalgia. :)

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by JohnStrange on Friday January 19, 2018 @11:52AM (#16187648)

It contains all the information you need, loads immediately, etc. It's a perfect web page.

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by leetcrew on Friday January 19, 2018 @12:33PM (#16188019)

I do share your appreciation for simple, static pages that get the job done, but the layout on this site is totally messed up for me, totally unaware of dpi I assume.

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by ambrosite on Friday January 19, 2018 @01:09PM (#16188338)

It does actually have a fluid grid, so it is responsive down to about tablet width. It does not display correctly on phones however, which I suppose is a fatal flaw for a hotel site.

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by throwwwwaway9 on Friday January 19, 2018 @04:22PM (#16189983)

>>Wow, this web page looks like it hasn't been updated since 1439

Can't be, internet wasn't created until the 17th century.

On the other hand, all the relevant info is there. Maybe looking "old" is by design, being a very old hotel and all?

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by jrowley on Friday January 19, 2018 @11:49AM (#16187616)

I appreciate their animated gifs.

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by laurentoget on Friday January 19, 2018 @12:54PM (#16188193)

prices are in euros so it has been updated sometimes in the 21st century.

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