I was thinking back to earlier points in my career - I started out in telecom, then moved to networking and IT in the mid 90s. I worked in "multimedia gulch", a part of San Francisco that started moving creative marketing to CDROM before pivoting to the internet and web design. I worked for a gaming company that used a web design company for their site design.

I remembered the domain, and hit it, 25 years later. It looks EXACTLY like it looked in 1999, with the same list of personnel, same contact information, and the same client list from 1999. The same avant garde look from the 90s - lots of CSS, frames, youname it.

It was like the Internet Archive, except it's... live.

It does look like the contact page has changed recently to reflect new mailing addresses, so there's someone minding the store.

Odd.
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Re: The Retro Web
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Thu Aug 01 2024 09:49:15

I remembered the domain, and hit it, 25 years later. It looks EXACTLY like it looked in 1999, with the same list of personnel, same contact information, and the same client list from 1999. The same avant garde look from the 90s - lots of CSS, frames, youname it.

It does look like the contact page has changed recently to reflect new mailing addresses, so there's someone minding the store.

That's fun!

Here's a retro web with nobody minding the store:

https://protoweb.org/
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