4 Jun 2010 11 am eastern

Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks

Thanks, Mr Sippey!

Filed under: Browsers, Curation, Design, industry, Web Design, Web Design History

20 Responses to “Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks”

  1. Aaron Alfred said on 4 June 2010 at 11:03 am:

    Ahhh the good ol’ days lol

  2. mike said on 4 June 2010 at 11:07 am:

    i thought someday the pulsating “N” as a progress indicator might return. alas, no(t yet).

  3. Nathan said on 4 June 2010 at 11:10 am:

    Seeing this logo made me instantly hear the sounds of a dial-up connection in my head…

  4. Jason Scott said on 4 June 2010 at 11:14 am:

    Here’s some more nostalgia for you, Jeff:

    Netscape Now!

  5. Jeffrey Zeldman said on 4 June 2010 at 11:18 am:

    ZOMG @Jason Scott, that’s a nostalgiagasm!

  6. Erik Vorhes said on 4 June 2010 at 11:35 am:

    Thanks for the early birthday present! Now I feel old…

  7. Jason Scott said on 4 June 2010 at 11:58 am:

    There’s also /underconstruction (under construction images) and /underconstruction/mail (“mail me” images). All taken from the backup I did of Geocities. I’d link, but /mail has been known to actually crash browsers.

  8. Bryan said on 4 June 2010 at 12:24 pm:

    Ah yes. I remember purchasing Netscape Navigator from my local CompUSA back in the day thinking it was the best thing ever.

  9. Alan the Houser said on 4 June 2010 at 12:35 pm:

    Ah yes. Back when you could fit an entire browser on ONE FLOPPY.

  10. Jeffrey Zeldman said on 4 June 2010 at 12:43 pm:

    Back when the web animation tool of choice was Perl.

  11. Jeffrey Zeldman said on 4 June 2010 at 12:45 pm:

    Check these out, big-eyed beans from Venus:

    http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mozilla/

    http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mozilla/pal.html

    http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mozilla/animations.html

  12. Jeffrey Zeldman said on 4 June 2010 at 12:50 pm:

    From the same source:

  13. Tyler Marés said on 4 June 2010 at 1:20 pm:

    Interesting, just last night I discovered that the articles at http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/ are still there. Angry in my youth that “filter” was IE only, yet Column 13′s Dynamic Headline Fader was the coolest thing ever.

  14. Harry said on 4 June 2010 at 1:36 pm:

    Zeldman on Netscape. http://www.flickr.com/photos/notbillmurray/4669730716/

  15. Brade said on 4 June 2010 at 1:57 pm:

    WTF???

  16. michael said on 4 June 2010 at 3:13 pm:

    Fills one with a warm, fuzzy glow of optimism for the future of the web, doesn’t it?

    (btw, nice Lumpy Gravy reference, Jeffrey.)

  17. Eric Meyer said on 4 June 2010 at 9:07 pm:

    I see your image and raise you one Mosaic Communications Corporation. Also the first Welcome to Netscape page. “You have just embarked on a journey across the Internet, and Netscape is your vehicle.”

    That’s right, kids: what you see is what web design and information architecture looked like in 1994. And we were damn grateful for what we had!

  18. Chris Dawes said on 5 June 2010 at 1:57 am:

    Wow… css who? Did someone say no tables and 256 colors? Back when spacer gif placement was an art-form! ;-)

    Thanks for this. Remember the old Netscape forums before communicator when we tought people to write html… no css, no ajax… no design principals… just hot pink and fluro green!!

  19. Pariuri Sportive said on 8 June 2010 at 11:22 am:

    Netscape dominated the net market, but when Microsoft introduced the free web browsers the Netscape lost the leader position…

  20. Tudor said on 10 June 2010 at 3:42 am:

    Uh-oh, looks like someone forgot to test his website in one of the most important browsers on the planet. :)

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