Comment by silisili
1 day ago
I'm not sure how younger folks would feel seeing this...perhaps that it's ugly, less useful, sparse. And they'd be a bit right.
But for me this was a hit of pure nostalgia, flipping item to item. Almost like looking through an old photo album of memories you'd forgotten years back. Thanks Neal for putting it together.
Slightly fun fact - the original Space Jam site stayed intact until 2021!
https://web.archive.org/web/20210105185246/https://www.space...
I never particularly liked 50's or 60's aesthetic, and always puzzled over how my parents could gush so hard over it.
Now, I totally get it.
They actually left the original Space Jam site up. I think the developers knew its importance.
https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
They managed to break https://www.spacejam.com/ though. It redirects to https://www.spacejamanewlegacy.net/ which has a bad cert and then goes into a redirect loop.
So broken after just 4 years
Hey give Disney a break they're a small company with only a few employees. Maybe tbe certifier is on vacation.
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Hmm, I didn't get a redirect https://www.spacejamanewlegacy.net/
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I love how the new Space Jam website is ALSO in the 90's style! https://www.spacejam.com/2021/
Oh man I forgot all about <frameset> and <frame> tags to create navigation. From the early days before we had dynamic sites or static site generators with templates, we had our browsers do our "templating" for us!
frameset was THE basis for building manual-style resources back in the day!
* nav header; search (if you could figure out how to make it work)
* Table of contents
* main content pane
fun times!
Nice! Never knew that. I wish more companies with popular sites did this. I'm sure it cost them about no money nor time to just shovel it off like this.
>look inside
>Google Analytics
They moved everything under /1996 when the new movie came out, and while doing so they broke some pages.
A photo album that gets more and more depressing.
If your album is roughly chronological like mine... watching the kids grow up, yourself and your spouse get fatter and grayer....they -do- get more and more depressing :).
Yeah, so like life I guess. :-(
(Although you may have read recently as I have that 50 years old seems to be peak happiness for people self-reporting happiness.)
I found having to keep backtracking because one swipe advanced two or three screens to be very annoying.