the internet circa 1996

[Jerry_111]

http://gizmodo.com/349333/old-websites-sure-are-funny

lol at all the old corporate websites. they're so much more spiffy-looking now.

 

[noisebleed]

wow@those.

i could of coded all of those sites in a couple minutes through notepad lol

 

[Acepilotf14]

wow@those.

i could of coded all of those sites in a couple minutes through notepad lol

They didn't HAVE notepad back then.

I think.

 

[kupocake]

And they're still a lot more impressive than the average myspace page.

 

[Barnz]

They didn't HAVE notepad back then.

I think.

:|...?

Notepad is a simple text editor included with all versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 1.0 in 1985.

Source: Wikipedia

 

[Seppo]

they aren't as bad as i remembered

 

[Raziaar]

Pretty ****ing good for being 12 years old almost.

 

[Parrot of doom]

I bet a lot of those sites were faster to load and easier to navigate than their modern-day counterparts....

 

[Operational]

A "maybe" to both counts, faster is relative of course and navigation... well you can still have some screwed up layouts with basic HTML.

Maybe it's just that I'm tired but I didn't find any of those old websites funny but they certainly have a different style to today's.

 

[Acepilotf14]

:|...?



Source: Wikipedia

I was not in existence at that point.

 

[Sulkdodds]

I think it's sweetly telling that the website of a big company - in this case, Toyota - actually used to make reference to "all your regulars." That conjures a funny little image of a smaller internet, a more personal internet, when big companies ran their websites like blogs or forums and not like advertising space.