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Exactly. Here's Gamespot's homepage in 2007:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070228162159/http://www.gamesp...

Very similar. So much more personality than Gamespot today:

https://www.gamespot.com

But back then everyone viewed websites on desktop. Mobile if supported was special-cased. It's the opposite now.

Modern designers would think it’s terrible because it gives you too much information, and suggest putting in way more white space, hiding things under menu bars. I wish I was being facetious but sadly it’s a sincere statement.

Completely agree though. Information-heavy pages for desktop consumption were wonderful. It truly feels like we’ve regressed. Just loading that gamespot link honestly filled me with an immense nostalgia for the web of 10-15 years ago

You call it personality, I call it gradient overload. Check out the difference in content density, though.

Humor me for a moment. What decade did you go to high school in?

I'm in my late 30s! Can't wait to see what condescension comes next.

I didn't mean to sound condescending, I was genuinely curious. I was wondering if there's a correlation between age and aesthetics, but we're about the same age.

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