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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 20 days
What you need to understand about the World Wide Web in 1994, is that it was incredibly ugly: www.fastcompany.com/91140068/how...
What the internet looked like in 1994, according to 15 webpages born that year - Fast Companywww.fastcompany.com Looking back at the Web when it first entered the mainstream shows a world far different from today's cyber wastelands.
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Patrick Ziselberger @ziselberger.com · 20 days
Pre-CSS! Your font choices were serif and sans serif. There were 215 cross-platform web-safe colors. Small image size was more important than quality, since almost everyone was on dial-up.
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Natanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social · 20 days
Tables for layout
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Nick S @holgate.permanent.red · 20 days
1994 was pre-tables, as the screencaps make fairly clear. (TABLE came with Netscape 1.1 in earlyish 1995). Layout in 1994 was basically UL / LI with some creative use of images. Imagemaps for navigation.
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Nick S @holgate.permanent.red · 20 days
I built corporate websites in mid-1995 with UL / LI and (I think) background images because IE didn’t have table support until late ‘95, and with separate sites for Netscape and IE because they spaced LI differently.