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Websites of 2000 [video]
- geoffbp 3y agoAmazing! 2000 feels not long ago to me. I remember when Google came on the scene and how much better the search was, then when they started offering gmail
- sn_master 3y agoand now Google is barely returning any relevant results anymore :/
- georgespencer 3y agoGmail always catches me by surprise: launched before the IPO and relatively quickly after Google’s inception. 19 years ago!
- Brajeshwar 3y agoI remember Gmail was hot. A friend invited me early on[1]. I wrote a blog post asking for one and got it that day. I started inviting people left and right. I remember setting up a specific time daily as a routine to invite others. 1. https://brajeshwar.com/2004/i-want-a-gmail-account/ https://brajeshwar.com/2004/i-want-a-gmail-account/
- kavir 3y agoOh wow, that's a long time being active on the internet. I remember writing "review" articles on mouthshut dot com back in the early 2000s. And getting an invite from a friend for gMail
- londons_explore 3y agowhat an odd style of camera work...
- Affric 3y agoI don't watch children's light entertainment/infotainment television anymore but it took me back to a big 90s SONY Trinitron and being home from school. I assume bolognese would be cooked for dinner. Things were cheaper and simpler. What a piece of art.
- wildrhythms 3y agoSorry, but have you never watched TV? I feel like every infotainment piece has had this exact look for the past three decades.
- queuebert 3y agoLove that vintage felt marker font override.
- sefrost 3y agoFrom a year earlier, Charlie Brooker's favourite website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/charlie-brookers-favourite-website/zfbgbdm https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/charlie-brookers-favourite-web...
- teddyh 3y ago(It’s IMDb).
- jkonline 3y agoFilming TV segments about internet websites? What's next, watching TV on the Internet? Heh
- xeckr 3y agoCrazy how far web design has come. The content of websites was a lot more compacted in the past. And how could we forget the (overly) liberal use of gifs? It makes me wonder whether people in 2047 will look back on today's websites with the same impression.
- quickthrower2 3y ago2047: “people used to read those sites directly, like with their eyes and stuff”.
- TylerE 3y agoScreens were waaaaaay smaller back then. Anything beyond 1024x768, or even 800x600 was luxury.
- 101008 3y agoThe 2000s were the best times for internet. Nothing will compare to that. Some Saturday nights I feel so nostalgic that I prepare tea and I start browsing my favourite websites on web.archive... and I become sad.
- kaycebasques 3y ago2000-2010? Better than 1995-2000? Debatable...
- tannhaeuser 3y agoIt's debatable indeed. I'd still make the golden era later than 2000 and would say it definitely ended in or before 2014/15 at the latest when Google's web search got its big profit squeeze and (Google's, again, mostly) targeted ad prices went down such that long standing publications like Dr. Dobb's Journal gave up following BYTE in 2012, yielding to content farms and copycat sites. Furthermore, Google Reader was discontinued in 2013, which apparently was used a lot; for me personally RSS peaked in 2005-2010 but the RSS spec is from 1998 already. Speaking of "standards", there's a WHATWG-focussed timeline [1] starting with 2004 that may help to further pinpoint the begin of the end in the 2000s. Considering 2009 saw the break through of "HTML 5" oiled with lots of vulgar propaganda financed by big tech, all in all I'd say 2000-2010 feels about right to call the golden era. The responsive push following the 2007 iPhone launch made the web complicated and helped apps more than the web. Paradoxically, the best times happened to be when Ajax sites were nascent and used as progressive enhancement, but by 2008, when Chrome/v8 hit the scene big time, party was already over for end users (as opposed to entrepreneurs). [1]: https://github.com/sideshowbarker/web-history https://github.com/sideshowbarker/web-history
- loveparade 3y agoWow, this makes me sad. Back then, websites on the internet were merely a useful tool that you controlled. Now it's the opposite. Websites on the internet control you by completely hijacking your attention with highly optimized clickbait and ads that humans are wired to engage with.
- Dwedit 3y agoAnyone else still have their 2000-era version of a website still up?
- wazoox 3y agoSure, I last updated my homepage in 2003.
- Apocryphon 3y agoWe can bring it back. Neocities exists. I'm sure other communities do as well.
- mikae1 3y agoNothing like a Brit pronouncing Googul. :)
- teddyh 3y agoWas this really originally broadcast in 16:9, or has the video been cropped (from 4:3) for modern sensibilities? If so, it seems contrary to the role of preserving history which the saving of this video presumably has.