Once Upon is a brilliant project that has recreated three popular sites from today as if they were built in the dial-up era, in 1997.
Witness Facebook, with no real-names policy and photos displayed in an ugly grey table; YouTube, with a choice of encoding options to select before you watch a video, and Google+, where Circles of contacts are displayed as far easier to render squares. Be prepared for a wait though – the recreations are limited to 8kbps transfer speeds, as if you were loading it on a particularly slow dial-up connection.
This is perhaps the most extreme version of Web nostalgia we’ve seen. On a related note, these imaginings of what online social networking would have been like in centuries gone by are worth a look. Also, our report on 10 websites that changed the world is worth reading- they’re not what you might expect.
Que tiempos aquellos!!! con los frames y los navegadores que no aceptaban transparencias. Great old times whit this browsers!.
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LikeI won't mind this as an option
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LikeWow, it's made by Olia Lialina, my net.art hero! Great find :)
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LikeI can't get get any IE below 7 to work on Windows 7. I wanted to see what the web looked like on them LOL.
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LikeGoogle+ would have Squares instead of Circles =D
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Likeaaawww frames.. they remind of my childhood.
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LikeIt's a pity that a modern browser was used for the comparison ... should have used Mosaic :-)
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Likemuy bueno
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Likeframes everywhere !
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LikeFantastic!
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Likelol I really love how the Google+ Circles is more of a... square.
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Likefunny as these are, one thing is noticeable: the focus on the content & function. compare that to the mess we have to deal with now.
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LikeAnd also how people changed their mindset over the centuries in this documentary called 'The Century of the Self', after all, what can facebook be without egocentrism as a core human behavior driver?
http://trendguardian.blogspot.com/2010/05/documentary-century-of-self.html
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LikeTwo things, take into account the evolution of the founder itself from what Mark says in this interview as Time's 'person of the ear':http://trendguardian.blogspot.com/2011/01/facebook-interview-mark-zuckerbergs.html
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LikeYoutube and Google+'s "circles" made me ROFL.
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buckleyheather Thanks for the RT!
janmschnurr Was mich ein wenig erschreckt: #Netscape war für mich tatsächlich lange Jahre der Standard-Browser.
wustxt #Netscape Navigator habe ich damals wegen der aufgeblasenen Version 6 deinstalliert. Danach erst einmal Opera, später Firefox.
brunorossi andrecunha queria ter sido designer nessa época. Bem mais simples!
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AutoMagi kon tak bacok lo yo !!
ThomasMarzano zenhl Whehehe, dat netscape incoontje in google+ #tech #design #UX #socialmedia
zohaibhassan hahahahaha.. loved the G+ circles :p
unleashedit mmmm......frames
adhumlen candacemcc Thanks for the RTs! Those screenshots reminder me of the good ol' days of Geocities...
sunpech I doubt they would have operated that way though.
cxi It would have been ugly in that way though!
sunpech If we let the same ideas of ugly interfaces (which are still used today) be applied, then yes ;)
topascz V roce 97 by tam bylo ještě spousty animovaných gifů a jezdil by tam dokolečka text :)
bkchandan And guess what http:\/\/t.co\/Czoc4Uhp is not even opening...still loading. Exactly, 1997 style :P
mani0993 haha!
sari_stein blenderhd back in 1997 we could turn off table borders! and set background colours too! ;) checkout http:\/\/t.co\/KsjUDgnx
jdwaring Have you seen the Geocities-izer? http:\/\/t.co\/Wrov3VvO
sari_stein Great Link! and I love the title - “Make Any Web page Look Like It Was Made By A 13 Year-Old In 1996” - LOL
sari_stein Well, it probably wouldn't be that bad, but it's pretty close.
datobinario Mis redes sociales en el 99 eran chat's en Latinchat y Terra.... oh my god so old, cedula downnnn!!!!!
datobinario La polarización política nos está matando, a todo se le busca el pero. Desde ambos frentes, es insoportable eso. Saludos.
LuisP1979 asi es mi pana, es una situacion muy lamentable.
RiolanVirtualBS Feliz sábado Edna!
datobinario Increible le dan el repechaje a Vzla y empiezan a criticar que las categorias menores, se lo hubiesen dado a las categorias con
SWalesSMedia urinating in my room
allanbbeatonsht Hopefully one with a toilet
SWalesSMedia up & away
akconsults Loved that post - reshared. Think it looks closer to '95 though ;).
jeremarketer Lol @ closer to '95! By '97 I had aol, hotmail and a free ISP called collegeclub! And that Netscape browser is spot on!
akconsults Were you on Collegeclub too!?! I loved that site. I think I approximately hit on 14% of the women on that site.
KarlaS haja saco pra fazer tanta table em html. huahuahauahau
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