old school web design
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I first explored the internet in 1996/7 before the google. The only way around it then was by either knowing a url or by leaping off a website via its links page. Links pages were really vital and enforced the idea of a net/web, becuase you would be able to envisage a physical set of bridges betwen points.
I was freelancing for Paul Smith Ltd when he got his first website. It was like opening a treasure chest. All about the man and his mad mind, not about the product he had to sell globally.
The other great thing that I miss becuase it was really fun, was that ads and things would have web addresses on, and companies were printing up oads of postcards advertising their urls, and everyone (everyone who was interested anyway) would be writing down urls in little notebooks to look up later when they got back on the web. Each new wesite brought a new links page thereby exponentially increasing the amount of the internet one could access. It was like being an explorer or a discoverer.
Naive, desperately lo-fi, but really incredibly magical and exciting.
- remember when AltaVista was the best search engine?ribit