HotWired 1998

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richard winchell says:

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.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

Olly Hodgson says:

Jebus! This sort of thing is what Malarkey was on about at @media! Pushing the boundaries!
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

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.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

michal migurski says:

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
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

ChristopherSchmitt.com says:

My fave design of all the HotWired designs.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

aa says:

The peak. Sigh...
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

xeophin says:

I don't even wanna think about the time that took to update ... But: this kind of wickedness is somewhat missing nowadays, generally.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

douglas says:

This was my favorite.. whatever happened to the Tekken characters? :)
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

melser says:

I liked this one.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

RobertAndrews says:

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.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

nadav says:

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 :)
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

bishopsmother says:

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!
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

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