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Under Construction

textfiles.com

Cute page.

All it needs now is one of those (This site best viewed with Netscape Navigator) icons or my favorite, the icons that used to rotate between (Site Served By IIS)/(Best viewed in DIMENSION)/(Something about usage of ActiveX tech).

> Best viewed in DIMENSION

Opinionated software before it was cool.

And I assume there'd be some sort of web ring involved as well?

"Hey! Sticklyman! WHAAAAT are you doing?"

https://homestarrunner.com/toons/under-construction

Oh my gosh, some of them are headers from old-school (1.0.x) JavaDocs...

I'm curious if the site is actually that slow, or if they deliberately throttled it for verisimilitude.

Fun stuff, either way.

It appears to be deliberate, since these are just small static files and the rest of the site is still fast. I find it incredibly annoying.

It makes the experience more authentic.

I understand. I just don't like it.

It may also be that even modern browsers have some trouble loading and rendering 940 animated gifs in parallel, even very small ones. That's probably not a common use case.

Hah, there's one there that I'd believe not to be an "under construction" graphic, but a graphic from a website about the C64 game Ultimate Wizard (there's a light green-on-black "Construction" that looks noticeably out of place)

on my own website my response to this craze back then was to take one of those icons, change it to be crossed out and write: "this site is NOT under construction!" next to it.

Malware bytes blocked that site for me; reportedly due to a trojan

The site a well-known (for some definition of the term) collection of very old files, so it’s probably an ancient signature for a DOS boot virus or something similar. I’d be very disturbed if there really was something worth worrying about there.

Missing "This page requires Windows® Internet Explorer® v5.5 or later".

Heads up: 943 requests, 8.22MB

still more performant than modern React based systems

shots fired

this is true

Can't wait to see what they end up putting on this page!

Man this gave me goosebumps HAHAHA

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