2000's Memoir
2000's Memoir
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- maquito9
- Serial: FLW300-02668-07032-1...NBQ00
- I built a flash website for the first agency I worked for in 2002 only to discover it took 40 seconds to load and was better done in html.Chimp
- ...and these days 'html sites' weigh 25 fucking megabytes and take 3 seconds to load.Nairn
- Yup, Flash was fucking awesome. Took 20 years for html to catch up, and, arguably, is no better at anything.formed
- Flash was the jam!atomholc
- GoToAndStop {};YakuZoku
- I'm still using it. Well, actionscripting in 'Adobe Animate'microkorg
- swiftjhey
- Loved that flash was able to get tweening of a sort vs the shit that Director had you do. good riddance to bothkaiyohtee
- I actually regret simply being too stupid to learn/comprehend AS3. The best I was able to manage was use AS2 to integrate tweening libraries.Continuity
- And even that was a tough slog for my brain.Continuity
- I miss Flashdbloc
- The Skip Intro Eradbloc
- ^were still in it but its now on Netflixwoowahesque
- ^ Ha! You're not wrong.Continuity
- hydro7417
2001 (after I got my own 'grown up' domain vs being on Geocities.)
2002 (reboot)
https://web.archive.org/web/2002…
fuck me..
- feel4
- i really love that this crap died out :)sted
- They were expensive for college studentspinkfloyd
- and crappy as hell. lost so much work because of these pieces of shit._niko
- Really? Couldn't have made it to grad schoo w/o this (and Pagemaker)formed
- I wanted an iomega zip drive so bad to carry my illustrator files onHayoth
- i still have a disk somewheredocpoz
- i refused to use these things and just burnt CD's like mad.inteliboy
- I still have my drive and a stack of disks in my desk drawer. I need to clean that bad boy out.elahon
- These were amazing... so much better than SyQuest drives.ShaneHolley
- so noisey, so slow, so lameWeyland
- If you consider they are what came after SyQuest, this was landmark progress.CyBrainX
- I remember those 44 meg syquests... and if you dropped one, you might lose all your files!vaxorcist
- these were before burning discs... and were essential - but also spread the dreaded mac wormsfadein11
- yes, i've used it just before of the dawn of cheap dollar cd's, and then came the pendrivesfeel
- I remember making custom zip disk designs for our grad show portfolios.LOKi
- ^ oh man, golden days, we used to be happy with so littlefeel
- Might be crappy looking back but at the time these were amazing! Faster and more convenient than any alternative.ShaneHolley
- formed5
- damn. looks like a site for teen girlsscarabin
- it sort of was.detritus
- It's interesting that everyone was so into those tiny scrolling boxes back then. You had to fit everything on the screen at once.yuekit
- "tiny scrolling boxes" = iframes.iCanHazQBN
- I'm guessing he knows that.detritus
- yes, fitting everything in a 15 inch 800x600 screen above the fold, with iFrames in table cells and if/else IE code inserted everywherevaxorcist
- don't forget bitmap fonts.CyBrainX
- and bitmap bevelsWeyland
- So awesome! Can we bring this back?pango
- remember thinking they were soo coolbklyndroobeki
- Continuity4
- Damn that first design chapel image used to be my desktop background!ABLESSINGDESIGN
- woah!cbass99
- same herescarabin
- yup my desktopsureshot
- me tootimeless
- Wow. That first image!!!desmo
- I worshipped the ground this guy walked on, back in the day.
Great times.Continuity - desktop yepsinjun
- Loved Design Chapel!hydro74
- instrmntl7
- DiK!LOKi
- ahhhhh the good old daysautoflavour
- wow.. looks like they are still going strong.. http://designiskinky…autoflavour
- Hover nutset
- !bklyndroobeki
- I have a tshirt from them :) it's blue and has something like "faty hore consumer" written over it. Can't find it. Must be at my parentsiGin
- Gabriel5
- Haha damn, I now remember this. Spent many hours on there what feels like 20 years ago. Can’t believe this still exists.NBQ00
- metooGabriel
- Was this the one that terrorist cells were caught organizing on? Or was it pedophiles? Or both?garbage
- I was a fucking kingpin on habbo. I built a trading empirescarabin
- lol, of coursegarbage
- formed0
- Can anyone remember what was before Newstoday? Every time these posts come up I try to remember...somethign that started with a P? Dammit.formed
- pixel surgeon?cbass99
- Wasn't it H73 before NT?jfletcher
- hydro something maybe?CygnusZero4
- Wow. Actual design topics. Who knew?wagshaft
- holodeck73 wasn't it?exador1
- http://www.droppod.c…prophetone
- Those names under Broadcast Editors!
I miss all those peoples' work. I got to meet some of them.CyBrainX
- instrmntl2
- who?bklyndroobeki
- GodORAZAL
- jakob neilseninstrmntl
- Jakob 'I'm a cunt who hates design' NeilsenContinuity
- What a tool. And when Steve Jobs spouted the same nonsense, everyone obeyed his gospel.CyBrainX
- yuekit1
- wat? it was only '07?scarabin
- "An iPod...a PHONE..." almost teared up a little bit lolyuekit
- the last 8 years went fast after this 3 devices in one.uan
- multi-touch is patented but every phones does it now..i dont get itBen99
- "iPhone runs OSX and desktop applications..." what?monNom
- yeah, OSX is at teh core of iOS, which is what made it so greatmonospaced
- drgs6
- mg333
- met my first cougar on this thing.bklyndroobeki
- https://www.youtube.…Al_dizzle
- I hooked up with girls only from here for a long time.Beeswax
- omg3
- YES I was looking for this but kept searching hotfiles. Totally forgot it was hotline!err
- ¿Qué es esto?bklyndroobeki
- <3pockets
- sted3
- yupmoldero
- +1 so much fun in LAN partyBen99
- It's still going, available on Steam and with busy servers.face_melter