XKCD made me happy today!

With its homage to the shutting down of GeoCities. I mean, it’s got everything – animated background, broken HTML tags, annoying ani-gifs, ‘under construction’, netscape-style broken images, random web awards… It’s beautifully done, really. Never thought I’d get nostalgic for atrocious web design… Reminds me of the X-Files fan page I made when I was around 14 (though I think that was on CompuServe’s free hosting service). Those were the days, man.

Beautiful. So well executed.

Part of what makes it funny is there are a ton of people (well, at least me) who wouldn’t even have noticed.

Whoa.

Me, too. Never even noticed the background, just went straight to the comic.

Having had it brought to my attention, I have to say that it’s absolutely perfect. I feel like it’s 1996 again.

It was great. I especially like the page counter with a lot of zeros.

Ah, the broken HTML tag…memories…

I sometimes cannot believe what was on the web in its infancy.

I was going to post this. It was great!

I saw it too! Very cute. Well done, sir.

I’d forgotten how annoying those damned blink tags were! Absolutely perfect… the only thing missing is the big animated “Sign My Guestbook!” logo.

It’s kind of like running into a Facebook profile for the most annoying kid in your high school class, and suddenly feeling all warm and fuzzy and nostalgic about the way he used to pick his nose in math class and his scuzzy b.o. :slight_smile:

I especially love the X(KCD)10 banner at the very bottom. I was just thinking about how those infernal banners and pop-ups used to be everywhere, and now I haven’t seen one in at least 7 years or more.

Thanks! I get it on google reader and never go to the site.

That was incredible. But my GeoCities site from 1997 never looked like that. No sir.

No really, it didn’t. It was quite lame though.

I think the internet should still look like this.

“Best viewed in Netscape Navigator 4.7 or better at 800x480” :smiley:

Beautiful parody. I like how the graphics and icons are just the right kind of crappy.

OMG. I haven’t thought about webrings in over a decade…

Perfect. :slight_smile:

There’s tons of goodies hidden in the source, too. E.g.



<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="QBASIC">IF $BROWSER = "IE" THEN GOTO 50</SCRIPT>




<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='SCHEME'>(define (eval exp env)  (cond ((self-evaluating? exp) exp)  ((variable? exp) (lookup-variable-value exp env))  ((quoted? exp) (text-of-quotation exp))  ((assignment? exp) (eval-assignment exp env))  ((definition? exp) (eval-definition exp env))  ((if? exp) (eval-if exp env))  ((lambda? exp)  (make-procedure (lambda-parameters exp)  (lambda-body exp)  env))  ((begin? exp)   (eval-sequence (begin-actions exp) env))  ((cond? exp) (eval (cond->if exp) env))  ((application? exp)  (apply (eval (operator exp) env)  (list-of-values (operands exp) env)))  (else  (error "Common Lisp or Netscape Navigator 4.0+ Required" exp))))</SCRIPT>


And all sorts of funny HTML attributes sprinkled throughout.

I love the banner for the “X10KCD Spy Camera.”

OMFG, I had that same Under Construction & NO SPAM banners on my website back in 1996…and I know I used <BLINK> somewhere on it too.

I, uh, may or may not have used that spinning animated e-mail graphic on my personal homepage in 1997.

Wow. That really takes me back. Webrings!