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Under Construction

JustARandomGuy 5y ago
Cute page. All it needs now is one of those (This site best viewed with Netscape Navigator) icons or my favorite, the icons that used to rotate between (Site Served By IIS)/(Best viewed in DIMENSION)/(Something about usage of ActiveX tech).
- bruce343434 5y ago
  > Best viewed in DIMENSION Opinionated software before it was cool.
- royjacobs 5y ago
  And I assume there'd be some sort of web ring involved as well?
PhasmaFelis 5y ago
I'm curious if the site is actually that slow, or if they deliberately throttled it for verisimilitude. Fun stuff, either way.
- jaywalk 5y ago
  It appears to be deliberate, since these are just small static files and the rest of the site is still fast. I find it incredibly annoying.
  - krapp 5y ago
    It makes the experience more authentic.
    - jaywalk 5y ago
      I understand. I just don't like it.
  - PhasmaFelis 5y ago
    It may also be that even modern browsers have some trouble loading and rendering 940 animated gifs in parallel, even very small ones. That's probably not a common use case.
osmyn 5y ago
Malware bytes blocked that site for me; reportedly due to a trojan
- mananaysiempre 5y ago
  The site a well-known (for some definition of the term) collection of very old files, so it’s probably an ancient signature for a DOS boot virus or something similar. I’d be very disturbed if there really was something worth worrying about there.
bitwize 5y ago
"Hey! Sticklyman! WHAAAAT are you doing?" https://homestarrunner.com/toons/under-construction https://homestarrunner.com/toons/under-construction Oh my gosh, some of them are headers from old-school (1.0.x) JavaDocs...
joshxyz 5y ago
Man this gave me goosebumps HAHAHA
butz 5y ago
Heads up: 943 requests, 8.22MB
- arthurcolle 5y ago
  still more performant than modern React based systems
  - systemvoltage 5y ago
    shots fired
  - grimmdude 5y ago
    this is true
    - deleted 5y ago
      [deleted]
em-bee 5y ago
on my own website my response to this craze back then was to take one of those icons, change it to be crossed out and write: "this site is NOT under construction!" next to it.
Stampo00 5y ago
Can't wait to see what they end up putting on this page!
ksec 5y ago
Missing "This page requires Windows® Internet Explorer® v5.5 or later".
LocalH 5y ago
Hah, there's one there that I'd believe not to be an "under construction" graphic, but a graphic from a website about the C64 game Ultimate Wizard (there's a light green-on-black "Construction" that looks noticeably out of place)

Cute page. All it needs now is one of those (This site best viewed with Netscape Navigator) icons or my favorite, the icons that used to rotate between (Site Served By IIS)/(Best viewed in DIMENSION)/(Something about usage of ActiveX tech).

bruce343434 5y ago
> Best viewed in DIMENSION Opinionated software before it was cool.
royjacobs 5y ago
And I assume there'd be some sort of web ring involved as well?

PhasmaFelis 5y ago

I'm curious if the site is actually that slow, or if they deliberately throttled it for verisimilitude. Fun stuff, either way.

jaywalk 5y ago
It appears to be deliberate, since these are just small static files and the rest of the site is still fast. I find it incredibly annoying.
- krapp 5y ago
  It makes the experience more authentic.
  - jaywalk 5y ago
    I understand. I just don't like it.
- PhasmaFelis 5y ago
  It may also be that even modern browsers have some trouble loading and rendering 940 animated gifs in parallel, even very small ones. That's probably not a common use case.

osmyn 5y ago

Malware bytes blocked that site for me; reportedly due to a trojan

mananaysiempre 5y ago
The site a well-known (for some definition of the term) collection of very old files, so it’s probably an ancient signature for a DOS boot virus or something similar. I’d be very disturbed if there really was something worth worrying about there.

bitwize 5y ago

"Hey! Sticklyman! WHAAAAT are you doing?" https://homestarrunner.com/toons/under-construction https://homestarrunner.com/toons/under-construction Oh my gosh, some of them are headers from old-school (1.0.x) JavaDocs...

joshxyz 5y ago

Man this gave me goosebumps HAHAHA

butz 5y ago

Heads up: 943 requests, 8.22MB

arthurcolle 5y ago
still more performant than modern React based systems
- systemvoltage 5y ago
  shots fired
- grimmdude 5y ago
  this is true
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]

em-bee 5y ago

on my own website my response to this craze back then was to take one of those icons, change it to be crossed out and write: "this site is NOT under construction!" next to it.

Stampo00 5y ago

Can't wait to see what they end up putting on this page!

ksec 5y ago

Missing "This page requires Windows® Internet Explorer® v5.5 or later".

LocalH 5y ago

Hah, there's one there that I'd believe not to be an "under construction" graphic, but a graphic from a website about the C64 game Ultimate Wizard (there's a light green-on-black "Construction" that looks noticeably out of place)