Notice How Old websites look better than new websites

pavel_lishin

The only thing that makes older-style websites harder to browse is the full-width text. My monitor is 24 inches wide, and while the text isn't super small, if my browser is taking up the full screen, I have to physically swivel my head side to side to read the text, and if this was multiple paragraphs, it would be pretty difficult to keep track of where I am. (Which is why most of the time, my browser is sized to be about half of the screen, anyway.) (The blog portion actually does keep it to a nice width, though - it's only the landing page that has this problem.)

1970-01-01

Crafted websites look better than thoughtless websites. Age has nothing to do with it, unless you're going way back to dial-up and the very beginning when WWW was competing with Gopher and BBS. Webmaster was a real job. Go find out what happened to webmasters; it answers a lot of questions.

trjordan

What is this engagement-bait headline? The content of the site is simply an old-looking site.

darknavi

"Better" is subjective a lot of the time, but load times are not. Modern web is so. slow. It's like watching that Sloth in Zootopia sometimes browsing the modern web.

exabrial

What is this, a webpage for ants?? This need at least.... 3 times more javascript frameworks.

Tryvrsakjo10

Honestly, I think whether a website looks good or not is subjective older websites do not necessarily look better than new sites it just depends on the creativeness of the developer.

devin

Clicking the back button and having it work as expected was nice, also.

gvieri

HTML 1 forever! Max: HMTL 2.0...

carabiner

All nostalgia is a longing for youth.

aaronvg

This website didnt load well on mobile

doboprobodyne

Is there a list of websites with really really spartan design that function very effectively on any platform? Sort of the apogee of "work smarter not harder". I like https://decoded.legal by way of example.

KevinMS

I've missed you, gradient navigation bar with a dropshadow