'90s-Style 'Captain Marvel' Website Will Have You Nostalgic for Dial-Up (movieweb.com)

An anonymous reader quotes MovieWeb: The official Captain Marvel website is a blast from the past... Marvel Studios is preparing its final promotional push for the project. This includes TV spots, various forms of merchandise, posters, and in this case, a perfect retro website, tailor made to take us all back to a time when the internet was a whole lot simpler.

Instead of flashy high resolution images, we are treated to pixelated versions, which perfectly reimagines the 1990s websites. There's a lot of Word art, a ticker to count how many unique views that the site gets, a guest book, and even a game that lets fans spot the Kree. Instead of the trailers coming through YouTube, they are played using the "Kree Player," which is take on the old Real Player.
MovieWeb writes that the site "also gives younger Marvel Cinematic Universe fans a chance to see what the internet looked like back in the day...."

And though the movie's slogan is "Higher, further, faster," they argue that "The only thing that could have made the Captain Marvel site even better is slow page loading, just to give it a real touch of what it was like surfing the net in the dark ages."

Comments

Not exactly 90's-style

[DontBeAMoran]

That many animated GIFs, at those sizes, are hard even for my old Core 2 Duo CPU with 16GB of RAM. I can't imagine a computer from the 1990's able to display that webpage.

Re:Not exactly 90's-style

[ChromeAeonuim]

And I can't even see it without allowing scripts. I use NoScript and I see nothing, and since I don't feel like allowing whatever script is apparently necessary to display basic HTML, I'm not going to see anything either. Scripts are not needed to display basic text and images. Calling this site '90's style' is like calling a bacon falafel burger with cheese 'authentic Jewish food'.

I hope this is an ad, because if it isn't, that means people are actually impressed by this.

Unconvincing

[roskakori]

uBlock rejects 14 data collecting nasties. Didn't have those in the mid nineties.

Nice try, but not 90's

[Ecuador]

Eh, apart from the fact that it uses js, clicking on links scrolls you "down" to a different background and doesn't leave any "back" navigation. Definitely not 90's style behavior, web designers nowadays don't know how to make something basic & old school even if they tried...

Be that as it may.....

[Anonymous Coward]

...it is still funny.

It made me laugh. Did it make you laugh too? Or are you only capable of negativity?