Raise your hand if you remember guest books, site counters, marquee tags, and using 4 small positioned images to get rounded corners!
Raise your hand if you remember guest books, site counters, marquee tags, and using 4 small positioned images to get rounded corners!
In most contexts they’ve been replaced by AI driven recommendation engines.
Although I discovered a delightful example of a human curated recommendation engine the other day in the form of bandcamp’s `Recomendations` feature :)
Well and DHTML immediately reminds me of Dreamweaver and trying to make everything compatible with IE and Netscape with a lot of browser detection.
I miss the people I worked with back then. But not UI work. As bad as it was, it was less complicated and more stable than it seems to be today.
And I don't miss people asking me to make something "more green" that is #0000FF. To paraphrase Spinal Tap: "None. None more green"