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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."

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  1. When it's not Slashdotted ... by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... the site loads instantly. It's easy to navigate. There's just enough information near the top of each page so you know immediately what the page is for. The text is easily readable with default browser settings, even on a small screen.

    Modern web developers could take a lesson from this.

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  2. Re:Ahh, the days.. by electrictroy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I like to look at the old webpages for psu.edu and scifi.com.

    Ahh simpler times. Plain text with just two or three images (resembling a newspaper). Not like today's pages that seem to take forever to load because they are so overburdened with a lot of junk.

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    The government is not your daddy. Its purpose is not to raid middle-class neighbors' wallets and give it to you.
  3. Re:Ahh, the days.. by prockcore · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In 1995 I was surfing the net with a 2.4 k modem.


    In 95 my dorm was fitted with ethernet.