Early 2000s webdesign
This was from the late-2000s but I think it counts
>>445832Yeah, that counts. Lots of color and use of various shapes for links.
>>445831I want to know what this aesthetic is called. I saw a lot of these early 2000s websites, my brother had one.
>>445831From someone from that time who hated it at that time: no
>>445844No what? i didnt ask a question retard.
>>445845I'm saying this shit sucks, dumbass. literal fucking zoomer autism
>>445846im 35 faggot. i was there at that time as well idiot if you dont like it, bye.
>>445831
>>445878>affiliate linksMiss those, more human system at finding related content instead of relying on algorithms and hashtags.
>>445839its callled pretend youre a SONY walkman
>>445878hoverdesk looks p coolsad all those desktop alternatives bit the dust
>>445831Http://www.lyricus.org
>>445926>Http://www.lyricus.orgwhat the fuck is this lol, trying to find shit on this and can only find this: https://www.amazon.com/WingMakers-Anthology-Teaching-Invitation-Japanese-ebook/dp/B00CC9HQRC/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1687831935&refinements=p_27%3ALyricus+Teaching+Order&s=digital-text&sr=1-1&text=Lyricus+Teaching+Order
>>445988more. what in the everfuck is this lolhttps://soundcloud.com/wingmakers-comthis is like that aesthetic in sound form
Anyone have any remember Spoono?
>>446210I do, I was dabbling in web design back then and they had some great content... and one of the better executed pixel art style websites.
>>446210Which also reminded me of GUIstuff.com. You could hardly count all the websites that ripped off their design back then.
>>445831This nigga is alright. You can definitely feel the age of the design though. https://www.worldsaway.com.au/daysofasha.php
>>446215Glad you have a screenshot of it. I always remembered a blue version of their layout. I also recall a website that was orange called Axangec (I think), I was only 12 but the guy still made me a mod of his forum lol.
>>446302Spoono had a nifty style sheet switcher where you could choose like eight different color schemes, I replicated it on my own website at the time. I had an account on their forums too, but I spent a lot more time on Tutorialforums.com.
>>445831I remember one or 2 years ago I stumbled upon a couple of twitter accounts that were still making/sharing these kinds of designs. Can't find them anymore, if anyone has an idea, I'll take it
neocities.orgLots of new websites being made in classic late 90s early 2000s fashion.Cool and all, but the content on those sites are sorely lacking.
>>446458Seems like a bunch of gay shit
>>446488yeah, a bunch of gays found there way there, i had to dig for anything remotely reminding me of the dbz sites of yore, but its mostly lain shit and stuff from tumblr users. I dont know what happened to the guys that used to make websites back then.
>>446492they all are gone and neocities was overtaked by foids and trannies who make shitty anime websites and have slapfights over "code stealing"
>>445839Y2K
>>445831http://cm.thran.uk/archive/betahotel/index.htmlIt's a bit cringe but this is something I had in 2007 and revived in 2011, it almost fits the aesthetic. It was for a habbo hotel retro.
>>446865Not at all: this is kinda nice!
http://www.kobash.com/tetris/
>>446893fun & games & fun & games &
http://ivibes.org/
>>445839We called it tech back then
>>447009nooo don't bring your millennial 'i actually remember this and made similar things', it's akchually bunkochonko9ddesign, a subcategory of chungobongobillcosbynightrider
bump for curiousity
Why don't they look like this anymore? This is so nice!
>>447978Not "edgy" enough, apparently.
>>447998What does that mean? Is today's design "edgy"?
>>447999I used it as a buzzword, but by that I mean becoming more and more grotesque with each day for some sort of shock "humour" nonsense.
>>448021I still don't get it. Where is there shock humour in modern graphic design?
>>448021what the fuck are you babbling about you fucking retard
>>448026Scroll up to picrel, fool.
>>446458This is amazing. it seems like it's kind of turning into myspace.
>>446458try the Gemini protocol
>>447021Unhinged
>>445839>I want to know what this aesthetic is called.early 200s web design
>>445839Deviant Art looked like this early on.
https://www.d2jsp.org/
This was cool web design. Now all have the same style and there is zero info when you land on a page. Waste of space having a big ass picture covering the full screen.
>>447998>>448021>>448126I wonder who could be behind these posts
http://cafelog.com/A sample B2 blog straight out of the early 2000s
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>>449162shit like op's image contains like 3 paragraphs of text totalif you go one of those archives with the 'cool' early 2000s flash/background image websites, that's mostly the theme - bunch of images distract from that it serves only couple of txt paragraphs in 9px font for display on 1024x800 with 7 ie toolbars, including the '01 09 11 launched the site, still under construction'you will be reminded that a lot was novelty and visual noise to distract from the lack of substance and today's designs (outside of product landing pages that nobody but search bots read) are more objective and to the point and merit, making it absolutely obvious when there isn't any - a paragraph of text is a paragraph of text and nothing more
Kinda ironic that webdesigners did this kind of stuff without css3, which - when it first arrived sround 2010 - was supposed to *improve* and expand capabilities and tomake it even easier, to have a unique look. But now everything just looks the same about everywhere
Will these ever make a comeback?
>>450447everything has a beginning and an end. Because these had their run they hold their value. If you keep making them in perpetuity, eventually it will lose all of its appeal.
>>445831we had perfection and abandoned it, and for what?
>>450478because nothing lasts forever, bitch nigga faggot
>>445831>>445839Im going to redesign my website to look like this, but i dont know how it will clash with my content that I make.
>>450595redesign my balls on your mom's face too, bitch
>>450606considering the absolute extend of your creativity I tend to doubt any mom has seen your balls ever.
>>449067i member.I think these websites developed partly because earlier website like on geocities or angelfire, were poorly laid out ,and a mess with jpegs floating in thr void. So this style was an attempt to organize things
>>445831>pre blog webthey took our weebs>>445844>niggers hate creativitytell me something new
God this thread is so fucking nostalgic, 12 years old using some of the first CMS's to host a tiny website for myself on my Sony Vaio before I even knew what port forwarding was.
>>450654>hosts a page>port stay closedkek, nice.>>450634>this style was an attempt to organize thingsAnd it fucking worked. Especially compared to google basically dicatating the usage of MARGIN and PADDING and WHITESPACE and even CAPS in BUTTONS in their shitty design these days.Web designers/devs bitched about everything being unmaintainble, because you had to have custom pictures for every part of the page. Then CSS got better and instead of using that, we went on to design everything in some kind of fucked up minimalism. You cannot make this shit up.
Peak early internet
>>450760>vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
>>450760Damn, Joe Cartoon, not thought about that in a long fuckin time. Thanks anon.
>>450607doesn't take creativity to dunk on your mom with my balls
>>450806indeed not to dunk. but to get in the situation of dunking
>>451081>Red Rocket
Why did we obsess with making everything Arial, 11 px big? Just monkey see, monkey do, huh
>>451497As one anon said, it was to organize what was already a disorganized website layout.I'd also say that they look like an extension of windows 98. The bevel emboss stuff didn't start until XP and Flash hit. There were a mix of the two during this era because not everyone jumped to XP right away.Look at the browser window and see how its the same as the website layout
Old deviantart
This is insane.
>>451545DeviantArt peaked years ago, I'm not sure when, but the latest iteration is bad.I vaguely remember that you posted but the green one that came later seemed better.
>>446233possibly the realest motherfucker in this thread
Here are some ccTLD registry websites that haven't been updated in a long whilehttps://pastebin.com/iz574u66some of them are from the 90s some 00s
>>445839Early skeumorphism.Links designed to look like physical buttons, image areas made to look like screens or windows surrounded by matte textures where text is placed to resemble real world signs/posters, etc.
>>445832R.I.P. UNIQUE web
>>446458I fucking love neocities
Back in 1999-2000, all internet connections were dial-up. Modem's max download speed was 56k, around 30k-to40k was the norm.When we built websites, the home page had to download in 10 seconds or less. The different colors used in the background, divs,etc were either coded or an image consisting of a single pixel with the color you wanted was repeated . for backgrounds with alternating lines of diferrent colors, an image of a column te width of a single pixel was repeated.Images were compressed to the exact size in pixels the you needed it at 72dpi. All images were preloaded. common monitor resolutions were 640x480 and 800x600 so you had to code your HTML and JavaScript accordingly.Nowadays, most web developers don't know shit., only use CMS based websites(wordpress, joomla,drupal,etc)If something goes wrong, they can't code, can't fix, can't modify, etc.Can't make a CMS from scratch with a text editor like notepad.
>>449114>https://www.d2jsp.org/
>>452272>Can't make a CMS from scratch with a text editor like notepad.Actually you can, but very few people in this world would be insane enough to do that...
>>445831>>445839this makes me want to install winampgood times>>446316I'd take a 1 month probation period over a discord server any day
>>452272Mobile killed it.
My father-in-law is a webmaster. It is difficult to get his attention when looking at a magnificent UI because he is lost in wonder. We were in a looking at a website together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… 'We can’t, we don’t know how to do it'.
>>453321>digital blasphemyHoly sovl
>>452272know any tuts on making old websites like >>445839
good ol days
If anyone knows how to make their sites like that please tell me mine looks like absolute dogshit
>>451545If only I had an email back then
beholdthe owner moved to ugly social media, tumblr etc. but the site remains in all its gloryhttps://historyofhyrule.com/
Kind of an /wsr/, but does anyone remember which gaming news website in the 2000s used a white/faux-translucent plastic theme and used pixel art icons for the game platforms (GC, PS2, XBOX, GBA etc). I looked on archive.org and it doesn't seem to have been GameSpy, IGN or GameSpot. Anyone know what I'm talking about, or remember other game news portals from that era?
i really miss all of the old communities that were around in early 2000s here in sweden. this is a legendary swedish hiphop site that had very active forums. lots of rappers got their start here uploading mixtapes, cyphers, rap battles and stuff. also had a good market place. what sucks is that only the log-in screens of these communities are available in the archives and i can't find any screenshots of what the sites looked like inside anymore.
You're using it.
Why dont we start making websites like these on our own, lamenting aint gonna bring these web designs back, we have to spit in the eyes of corporate minimalism and the Phooners
>>454240honestly imagine the outrage that would come if they changed the look of the site even slightly. good thing 4chan doesn't make enough money to pay ux designers.>>454243it's less about the inability to make them and more that no matter what you try a good majority of people online browse with their phones, so a good majority of sites will have to look boring and mobile-oriented.you can try making one if you don't care about broad appeal, but even among hobbyist communities you usually don't want to chase people away just for ~aesthetics~
>>454243>>454244It's not like these type of websites are completely gone. They're just no longer popular that's all.https://peelopaalu.neocities.org/
>>454244Thats understandable, but there are scripts where it toggles between desktop and mobile layouts. So to think of a way these 'old' designs would work on mobile would be a fun project.Well, I"m going to look into it myself. My brother use to make sites like these:http://www.futureexpress.net/fe9_news.htmbut I never picked his brain to know how to do it. believe most of it was css and the use of pixels.
>>454204This site is a work of art.
>>445831We need a search bar to browse information now. So, if we want to see the coffee page. You can type in bean and you'll find coffee and tea. You can refine it. These simple parsing systems are hyper archaic binary.
>>454243Just do it Anon, there is definitely a niche group of people who are still interested in this sort of stuff and the space could use more normal interesting people and less politically obsessed deranged motherfuckers.My advice if you want to get started is to create something you're personally passionate about, don't aim for high traffic, and try to avoid making a personal website unless you like just writing into the void (the "my blog" kinda sites) as they very quickly burn people out and inevitably end up abandoned when people realise that they could have just posted it on Twitter with less effort and gotten more engagement.If you have a hobby, collection, niche set of skills, or special autistic interest, make a site where you can talk all about it in all of the depth you want to, and you'll quickly find yourself engaged in creating something people actually give a shit about.>>454247>peelopaaluI had no idea people still gave a shit about my website, I usually hang out on /g/, but stumbled across this thread when Googling to see why I got a spike in traffic yesterday. I have a shit load of dead links to get through and I've honestly just lost a lot of motivation to keep going with the project, so I've kinda had to put it on the back burner for now. I'll get back to it sooner or later.
>>454243nobody cares, the internet is deadAI will accelerate us into sludge oblivion
>>454276Everytime I see a doom post I think of a deranged man shitting his pants in public, or some tranny saying nothing matters to justify their gentital mutilation and spitting in the face of God.
>>446316>but I spent a lot more time on Tutorialforums.comonly retards went there. it was full of carebears
>>446458No, neocities is crap because it's the equivalent of adding a greenscreen vhs overlay to a 1080p 12000fps iphone video. Kids who've gotten all their ideas about web design from pinterest and not from a book.
>>446216This is actually nice and cool.
>>451546what is the first step to designing a site like this?
>>454423Start with a transparent png for the overall layout with the transparency being the parts where the links nestle between. Then use this:https://www.w3docs.com/snippets/css/how-to-position-one-image-on-top-of-another-in-html-css.html
>>454450Wait what the fuck? That's so much more simple than i thought it'd be.Do you know any good books on 2000s website design?
>>454451Don't know any books but most of 2000s web was built on simple basic javascript, html and css which can be learned on w3. You're essentially getting creative with limitations, fucking around with divs and tables.
>>454451>>454452I wanted to share one other trick though if you're new and just getting started, something you can play with.that image >>451546I haven't been to the website to check, but my guess on those red buttons is that they change based on clicks and mouseover. You could change the color or image of them by using thesehttps://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_image_overlay.asphttps://www.w3schools.com/CSSref/sel_hover.phpUsing a mouseover or onmouse click to dynamically change elements of a webpage.
>>454453Ah yeah, I'm familiar with some basic CSS functions but that's helpful, thanks.And I couldn't find the right webpage from archive.org, but I did find this cool page. A bit broken even with Ruffle but I can still feel the sovl.https://web.archive.org/web/20060528211354/http://www.conspiracygames.com/
>>454466Those sounds. I love those lo fidelity sound effects they used to use in stuff like that and flash.
>>454274what are some sites that have this small pixel aesthetic? i love it
>>454519https://www.nitrome.com/i genuinely don't think they've changed their layout since i found them over a decade ago. unfortunately the site is one of many that took a hit due to flash's end
