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Re:Geo for Bootstrap - bootstrap theme by unomateo on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @03:32PM (#5828010)
Back in 1997, I got connected to the internet. Thinking it was owned by a single company, the first time I ran across a site like this... made me want to develop websites. I thought to myself, Why did this internet company make suck a crappy webpage. Then I found out it was a personal home page, and anyone could do it... I then spent the next 5 years making awesome sites just like this, sans MC Hammer.

It does bring back some good nostalgia.

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Re:Geo for Bootstrap - bootstrap theme by eksith on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @03:40PM (#5828075)
To be fair, back in 1997 the internet was "almost" owned by one company in a way: AOL ;)

I have a tough time taking a lot of those old designs as "crappy" though. I mean some of them were seizure inducing for sure, but there were a lot of pages that were very readable and above all else, very simple.

E.G. http://www.baddesigns.com/

Of course modern sites still carry the spirit in some way. http://stallman.org

Side note: A site sans MC Hammer is not awesome ;)

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Re:Geo for Bootstrap - bootstrap theme by planetjones on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @03:34PM (#5828030)
I remember looking up something for my dad in the mid nineties and the website had a cyan background with yellow text. You had to highlight it to make it legible. At that time before I knew much about HTML / CSS we were like creating content for the Internet must require some über skills if people find it so hard to even make text readable! How little we knew.
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