you developers out there please take note....the concept is hereby declared open source
Posted on 04/06/2015 11:05:14 AM PDT by kingattax
What did LinkedIn look like the first time you visited the site in 2003?
How ugly was Yahoo! in 1994?
We found the earliest versions of some of the most visited websites today, like Facebook, Google and Buzzfeed.
Here's what the sites looked like then, and what they look like now. Web design has come a long way — oh, and the ads have gotten a lot fancier.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
I remember freerepublic in the days before the internet.
At one time it was just a small ad in the Yellow Pages, with a 1-800 number to call in your opinion.
A thread could take days to go back and forth, yet only end up with 20 or 30 replies, plus locals had the advantage because the long distance rates back then were a killer.
Wild times.
FireFox used to let me “Right-Click” and hit “Return to top”, but that’s gone and it was still more cumbersome than just scrolling back to the top.
Recently moved and in the process I was going thru what to keep and throw away. There was a card with bulletin board phone numbers with bit and parity setting...oh my....I thought it was so cool to read those.
FR is the only website that doesn’t give me headaches.
All the rest suck up RAM and CPU like it was welfare cash. Even on a mobile device it runs smooth.
I know.
FR is awesome on mobile devices.
Personally, I don’t need or want all the “Multimedia” crap, and when a site has imbedded audio or video ads I will rarely stick around.
LOL
the blue links....nearly IMPOSSIBLE to read!! I think that they could have been made to display white.rather than “link blue? .even back in 1996
Sometimes it’s just those little things that can make everyone’s experience so much more enjoyable.
Ive seen websites which us dropdown menus....that OVERLAP another dropdown menu above or below them....
functional disasters
this is an all time favorite......BAD BAD BAD web design in many cases Undecipherable stuff...from BIG Companies
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/mysterymeatnavigation.html
On a laptop keyboard – lacking Home, End, Page-Up and Page-Down – you can use Fn-Left-Arrow to go to the top, or Fn-Up-Arrow to go up a screen.
If you have a Mac trackpad, on Firefox, you can sweep up or down with three fingers for an extra-fast scroll.
When it comes to software and web design I am strictly an end user.
But, I know enough to know that it’s not that difficult to add or subtract features.
Over the years websites have become substantially better without a doubt. Until, the last few years when there seemed this need to put multimedia everywhere.
Fundamentally, the Internet is/was a “Pull Information” platform. Sadly, it is becoming more and more a “Push Information” platform.
You are a genius !!!!
I’m an idiot.
one button on my keyboard “Home”.
That’s still if I’m not to lazy to reach for the keyboard.
There are some trade-off’s that I’ll need to work out.
But, either way, you’re a genius.
I keep pressing that button but I'm still at work.....ha ha
lol
awesome !!!!!!
I've noticed of late the ill effect of social media on news sites. They all now seem compelled to clutter their pages with social media interface widgets, often positioned fixed, so they don't scroll off, and you can't get of them. Social media is an internet pestilence!
I have a little bookmarklet I use, which blindly rifles through the current page and disables any elements having fixed positioning or z-index set. Often, that's sufficient.
Another mixed blessing (at best) is the bottomless page. When you scroll to the bottom of the current story, they XHR the next one and stitch it into your view. I suppose this is an improvement on the old standby for boosting impression counts, which was/is the opposite: show you only the first "page" of the story and make you click for the rest. With the new strategy, you just never get to the bottom!
This is in addition to all the advertising malarky, which fattens up pages and makes them load slowly, both as a result of sheer size as well as the need to fetch ad content from slow third-party servers.
I can remember when Monster.com had actual “monsters” that supposedly carried out the various functions of the site.
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