Retro web page
I'm currently designing a web site and for the index.htm page I want to replicate the feel of a very, very old web site. Unfortunately after about an hour of searching I still haven't found any guides written for HTML 1 which would let me know what tags I could use or and sites written with it that I could use as reference.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Megan posted this at 14:18 — 21st January 2005.
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Why do you want to do this? I'm just curious really. Sounds like an interesting project.
Here is the w3c page on HTML 2.0: http://www.w3c.org/MarkUp/html-spec/
Here is the spec: http://www.w3c.org/MarkUp/html-spec/
I don't know how you'd go about finding sites written that long ago... You would try archive.org to look up old versions of major sites. I'm sure there are still a lot of live sites that look like they were coded that long ago!
Megan
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Kls posted this at 01:10 — 26th January 2005.
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Thanks Megan, looking on archive.org is an excellent idea. I should have tried that before I posted this but I didn’t think of it.
As for the question of why, well nostalgia basically. The rest of the site, a phpBB forum and what ever other odds and ends I feel like uploading will be done in less eccentric style. It’s an idea I’ve had for sometime and mostly people may not get it but, hey, it’ll be my site and I can do what I want on it!
Whenever, if ever, I get it up and running I’ll try to remember to give you a link. Thanks again.
CptAwesome posted this at 06:19 — 26th January 2005.
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One thing about older pages is they were very graphically reduced because space used to be at a premium, and there weren't as advanced graphic editors, not sure when Adobe Photoshop first arrived.
Roo posted this at 06:21 — 26th January 2005.
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Photoshop 1 shipped in 1990 I believe.
CptAwesome posted this at 06:26 — 26th January 2005.
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Who doesn't love Wikipedia?
Source
andy206uk posted this at 17:27 — 26th January 2005.
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This might help you... It's the first ever webpage:
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
JeevesBond posted this at 21:40 — 26th January 2005.
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Andy, that is amazing... I love it - they really had no idea what the web was going to blossom into!
*EDIT*
When the site is finished make sure you put a post in the critique area!
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Abhishek Reddy posted this at 22:31 — 26th January 2005.
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I notice there's no copyright note at the bottom of that page.
andy206uk posted this at 00:38 — 27th January 2005.
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Look... this page lists ALL of the other websites online!
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html
It's only about a page long!
Andy
JeevesBond posted this at 11:07 — 27th January 2005.
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Double-wow! That's amazing, every site... Have you found any that still work, I tried a couple but generally get a 404 - not suprising as they're so ancient - even if: "A cool URI doesn't change"
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