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it bled into the real world a little bit too! here's the album cover for The Sham Mirrors by Arcturus, an album that sounds exactly like its cover

honestly, it should’ve been 😔

A way I would update this is to focus on text readability. Make sure it's big enough to be read by visitors, but keep the colorful elements in play. maybe lower their contrast slightly when obstructive, but largely keep it as is. The future of web design should have both form and function.

custom font text was usually just images off photoshop, in fact most of it is, so nothing is scaled. instead there were some common practices where you made your content fit within a 800px window.

We have all failed as web designers

Some real bangers here 🔥🔥🔥

We are currently in the present, so I have high hopes we get this in the future.

Sure, but there's an argument that the homogenous white squircle boxes with uniformly centered content of today are an overcorrection.

Why not both? These ain't dashboard websites!

vgh, what could have been

Ah yes, the days when designers cared more about making a website look like a bad trip than they did about legible text.

can't fit 12 ads in any of these

This is what the future of web design SHOULD have looked like, we fucked up somewhere along the way and need to go back

Superlooper website in 2001 www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/supe...

Surfstation website in 2001 www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/surf...

Metalheart Aesthetic in Web Design 2000–2003 www.webdesignmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Chapter3 website in 2001 www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/chap...

Warp Records website in 2001 www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/warp...

ruffle.rs

I loaded that website a lot just to listen to the soundtrack 😂

Replaced with indutrial building flyover videos.

At least there was some creativity. Now we either get endless social stream or 3 boxes.

and it should've been btw

RETVRN

GIVE US MORE OF TSSSSS

To be fair, a lot of this is very busy. We should ask ourselves if a neurodivergent person would be overwhelmed trying to navigate these sites.

Why is it phrased as if it were incorrect

@dvi-socialmode.bsky.social this is what mobile took away from us

Still pining for this era.

We should bring that back, sign of authenticity on a personal site - nothing a corpo would slop

That was previous to accessibility mandates and unnecessary accessibility laws forcing websites to adhere to certain standards. I still miss the time before sites asked about cookies, when browsers handled the cookies alone.

I was there designing like that. And proud to admit it

That first one was basically MTV’s website layout in the early 00s

Looking through every generation of dancing bologna demos for lulz must be fun. I hate how people try to make their websites loaded with unnecessary transitions and animations, or worse yet, unwanted and unnecessary music and video.  Everyone has always complained and web designers keep pushing.

It was peak design though

Then we got smartphones, and we realized web design like this didn't work on such earlier devices, so now every website has to look boring.

ruffle.rs

That's beautiful 🤩

Matinee did super cool stuff 😊 www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/mati...

I kept some old site designs alive from that era: ++ v2.delarge.co.uk/linkbuttons/... ++ v3.delarge.co.uk/keepitmoving...

It looks cool but i dont get how you would use this Its way too much going on and everything blends too much together

Image Maps??