Under Construction

Re:Under Construction by JustARandomGuy on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @02:51PM (#28132680)

Cute page.

All it needs now is one of those (This site best viewed with Netscape Navigator) icons or my favorite, the icons that used to rotate between (Site Served By IIS)/(Best viewed in DIMENSION)/(Something about usage of ActiveX tech).

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Re:Under Construction by royjacobs on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:20PM (#28133859)

And I assume there'd be some sort of web ring involved as well?

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Re:Under Construction by bruce343434 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @03:15PM (#28132964)

> Best viewed in DIMENSION

Opinionated software before it was cool.

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Re:Under Construction by bitwize on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:34PM (#28134064)

"Hey! Sticklyman! WHAAAAT are you doing?"

https://homestarrunner.com/toons/under-construction

Oh my gosh, some of them are headers from old-school (1.0.x) JavaDocs...

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Re:Under Construction by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @03:15PM (#28132971)

I'm curious if the site is actually that slow, or if they deliberately throttled it for verisimilitude.

Fun stuff, either way.

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Re:Under Construction by jaywalk on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @03:24PM (#28133062)

It appears to be deliberate, since these are just small static files and the rest of the site is still fast. I find it incredibly annoying.

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Re:Under Construction by krapp on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @03:28PM (#28133102)

It makes the experience more authentic.

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Re:Under Construction by jaywalk on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @05:04PM (#28134511)

I understand. I just don't like it.

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Re:Under Construction by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @07:05PM (#28135921)

It may also be that even modern browsers have some trouble loading and rendering 940 animated gifs in parallel, even very small ones. That's probably not a common use case.

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Re:Under Construction by LocalH on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:48AM (#28140822)

Hah, there's one there that I'd believe not to be an "under construction" graphic, but a graphic from a website about the C64 game Ultimate Wizard (there's a light green-on-black "Construction" that looks noticeably out of place)

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Re:Under Construction by em-bee on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @09:35PM (#28136909)

on my own website my response to this craze back then was to take one of those icons, change it to be crossed out and write: "this site is NOT under construction!" next to it.

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Re:Under Construction by osmyn on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @03:35PM (#28133187)

Malware bytes blocked that site for me; reportedly due to a trojan

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Re:Under Construction by mananaysiempre on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @07:23PM (#28136069)

The site a well-known (for some definition of the term) collection of very old files, so it’s probably an ancient signature for a DOS boot virus or something similar. I’d be very disturbed if there really was something worth worrying about there.

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Re:Under Construction by ksec on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:38AM (#28138407)

Missing "This page requires Windows® Internet Explorer® v5.5 or later".

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Re:Under Construction by butz on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:54PM (#28134378)

Heads up: 943 requests, 8.22MB

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Re:Under Construction by arthurcolle on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @05:24PM (#28134802)

still more performant than modern React based systems

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Re:Under Construction by grimmdude on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @06:37PM (#28135621)

this is true

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Re:Under Construction by systemvoltage on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @05:47PM (#28135080)

shots fired

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Re:Under Construction by Stampo00 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:28AM (#28138358)

Can't wait to see what they end up putting on this page!

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Re:Under Construction by joshxyz on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:45PM (#28134242)

Man this gave me goosebumps HAHAHA

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