HotWired 1998

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      leeander added this photo to his favorites. (83 months ago)

    2. richard winchell (83 months ago | reply)

      This was still tables, right? How crazy was the markup on this page?

      I'd love to see something looking like this now. All 2600 goodness.

    3. Olly Hodgson (83 months ago | reply)

      Jebus! This sort of thing is what Malarkey was on about at @media! Pushing the boundaries!

    4. mathowie (83 months ago | reply)

      I loved loved LOVED the old hotwired IE4 custom screensaver thing which featured full screen photos with giant headlines in type floating over them, with stuff below. I think it was based on the pre-RSS CDF thing.

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      mathowie and Myles! added this photo to their favorites.

    6. michal migurski (83 months ago | reply)

      Beautiful.

      Like a sketchzilla precursor to the new(ish) CNNi on-screen graphics, which I love:

      www.37signals.com/svn/images/400x300_cnni_pak istan.jpg

    7. Christopher Schmitt (83 months ago | reply)

      My fave design of all the HotWired designs.

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      Christopher Schmitt, richard winchell, and prepreet added this photo to their favorites.

    9. aa (83 months ago | reply)

      The peak. Sigh...

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      aa, Brett L., and traveller_sam added this photo to their favorites.

    11. xeophin (83 months ago | reply)

      I don't even wanna think about the time that took to update ... But: this kind of wickedness is somewhat missing nowadays, generally.

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      Ben Brown and douglas added this photo to their favorites.

    13. douglas (83 months ago | reply)

      This was my favorite.. whatever happened to the Tekken characters? :)

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      lisamac added this photo to her favorites. (83 months ago)

    15. melser (83 months ago | reply)

      I liked this one.

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      RobertAndrews added this photo to his favorites. (77 months ago)

    17. RobertAndrews (77 months ago | reply)

      Any more of these archived anywhere? Quite apart from missing the opportunity to geek out on nostalgia before the archive went, I'd quite like to get one blown up for a wall poster.

    18. nadav (77 months ago | reply)

      I can tell you firsthand (since I co-wrote this), that it was completely insane. Remember, this was back in the days when DHTML meant conditionalizing for Internet Explorer and Netscape (as in Netscape 4, as in "layers"). Eek! We had a big controller object called "oopenstein" in tribute to Douglas Coupland and every item on the page was a separate programmatic object with its own hard-wired "behavior."

      And, yes, it was lovely to watch and totally unusable :)

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      spiffariffic added this photo to her favorites. (65 months ago)

    20. bishopsmother (53 months ago | reply)

      It was glorious and unstable to boot. Every day when I walked into the office five people would tell me that something was broken. Welcome to the office.

      @Nadav - Did you ever save a screenshot of that HP color printer front door page load that was your first post-FT contract? That was a thing of beauty - in 1999!

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      marcus_au_2000 and Ryan Tate added this photo to their favorites.

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