I’ve had this page in my del.icio.us for some time, but some trouble building a header which changes width depending on the user resolution for a new website reminded me of it. Internet ‘96 takes a wry look at (now major) websites from 1996. My favourite, from the New York Times:
[...]Web design in 1996 is very easy–you just format a page however you want and say, “Please open your window to the width of this line of text.” No, don’t worry what type of monitor your visitors have. They won’t be seeing any awkward white space so long as they manually line up their windows to a specified line of text like the little jackasses they are. If they’re so intent on preening around with their own specialty window size they can go make their own goddamned website.
Tags: humour, web
