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Comment by cbg0

16 hours ago

The "portal" layout style was very popular on Web 1.0, reminds me of PHP-Nuke.

omg, invoking php-nuke brings me back. fun era (recent php2shell wild ride notwithstanding). Honestly it's more like web 1.5 - not straight up hand written html but no wild client side stuff either.

And yes, there absolutely was a "look" that's a product of the technology of the time - tables for design, limited styling / js support, php "components" that you could load and replace as part of your portal, and "themes".

  • and it's so fast. clicks respond instantaneously even though the whole page has to be fetched and re-rendered.

    we lost so much with SPAs and js everywhere.

    htmx will save us!

My online diary started with PHP-Nuke. Then went to PostNuke for many years. Then to Drupal, where it still is. 26 years of content hehe. (Wish I’d picked Wordpress instead of Drupal but too many links to change now)