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The Original mcom.com Revived

Posted by Zonk on from the slice-of-the-interwebs-past dept.

saccade.com writes "For those of you that missed the emergence of the the World Wide Web the first time around, Mozilla co-founder JWZ has recreated it for you. In honor of Mozilla's tenth anniversary, he's recreated the original home.mcom.com sites in all their 1994 glory. He even has vintage browsers to go with them."

13 of 137 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Rickrolled? by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're 10 years ahead, trolling 10 years ago was punching monkeys..

  2. Ahh, the days.. by Hyppy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ahh, the days when changing your browser's "background" color to anything other than (off-)white meant most pages became unreadable.

    Oh, and good job, Slashdotters. The page is down already!

    1. Re:Ahh, the days.. by dougmc · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh, and good job, Slashdotters. The page is down already! I got the impression that that was part of the `early web experience'.

      (Seriously, it looks like the web server is patched to feed data as if you were on a slow dialup ...)

    2. Re:Ahh, the days.. by Hawthorne01 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh, and good job, Slashdotters. The page is down already!

      Naah, they're just re-creating the experience of websurfing on a 14.4 modem.

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    3. Re:Ahh, the days.. by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 4, Funny

      They're certainly written to be like 1994.. WORST. HTML. EVER.

    4. Re:Ahh, the days.. by twistedsymphony · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh, and good job, Slashdotters. The page is down already!
      That's unpossible, slashdot readers never click to read the article.
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    5. Re:Ahh, the days.. by Culture20 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I was using a 2400baud modem in 1995-1996 too, but I didn't have to select "don't load images" I was using lynx on a unix server I dialed into. My computer was an IBM 8086 with TWO 5.25 floppy drives. I could copy floppies like a mad man!

  3. That's not bandwidth throttling by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unfortunately, it seems to be running on Netsite.

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    Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
  4. Next up by i_ate_god · · Score: 3, Funny

    revive gopher and geocities

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    I'm god, but it's a bit of a drag really...
  5. Is it just me? by kabocox · · Score: 2, Funny

    That looked like a clean myspace page to me.

  6. Re:Enough of this Acid3 nonsense... by esocid · · Score: 4, Funny

    What test would that be? If they can load text and jpegs progressively in less than 4 minutes?

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  7. the /. effect, 1994-style by downix · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well boys, we sure killed that connection fast.... feels just like the old days!

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  8. Re:HYPE tag. by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 4, Funny

    It was removed later 'for great justice'.

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    Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?