Alex Plescan: Just for fun: animating a mosaic of 90s GIFs. “…let’s go behind the scenes of how the GIF mosaic came together. We’ll look at sourcing the GIFs, cleaning them up so they’re safe for public display, and animating them.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/17/just-for-fun-animating-a-mosaic-of-90s-gifs-alex-plescan/

Boing Boing: No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online “clubs” celebrate plainer websites. “The revived No JS Club celebrates websites that don’t use Javascript, the powerful but sometimes overused code that’s been bloating the web and crashing tabs since 1995. The No CSS Club goes a step further and forbids even a scrap of styling beyond the browser defaults. And there is even the No HTML Club, where […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/29/no-js-no-css-no-html-online-clubs-celebrate-plainer-websites-boing-boing/

Found in my RSS feeds: GeoCities.live. Turn any Web pages into a 1990s GeoCities blink fest. Lots of fun.

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/14/geocities-live/

I just discovered Old'aVista.

https://oldavista.com/

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintageweb #altavista #searchengines #nostalgia #archive #computinghistory

Looks like CNN finally took down their old O J Simpson trial page:

http://edition.cnn.com/US/OJ/

Seems they did it fairly recently too, the last wayback machine capture was in July this year: https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://edition.cnn.com/US/OJ/

#vintageweb #vintageinternet #90sweb #90sinternet #oldweb #oldinternet #90s #the90s #oldwebsites #web

I made these in, I think, 1998 in MS Paint and MS GIF Animator, frame by frame, pixel by pixel. They got very popular which also got them a hate page, haha.

In action with an unironic HTML MARQUEE tag: https://www.dronkert.nl/triton/boats.html

On my Rowing Technique page: https://www.dronkert.nl/triton/techniek.php

And at the rigging charts I copied from Steve Redgrave: https://www.dronkert.nl/triton/afstelling.php

(These old pages long since disappeared from the original boat club website that I made.)

#rowing #animation #gif #vintageweb

I started thinking about the vintage web and web rings while looking through some old apps and then trying to get a browser to run under Mac OS 7.5.5 in Basilisk II just to verify that my old website works with older browsers.

(Spoiler Alert!) It’s kinda broken. I switched from inline attributes for styling to using inline CSS, so some pages had backgrounds and no gaudy blue outlines, and some didn’t. Then I got sucked into installing a period appropriate QuickTime. Pro started in 3.0 and the key I purchased apparently doesn’t work on it. 🙃 Had to try a couple of keys listed elsewhere, but it’s nice being able to watch the videos I have on my website again.

Well, here I am adding bgcolor and border attributes to HTML tags like a My First Webpage coder. 🥰

#VintageWeb #BasiliskII #MacOS7 #NetscapeNavigator #QuickTime #HTML4 #CSS2 (probably)