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Early internet nostalgia (europe.pub)
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[–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Mixed and depending on the year. Hardware was available, (braile and speech syth) but it was expensive as hell. There was a bit of a crisis when we went from dos to windows. None of the early GUI supported any of the hardware. In 95 you could use JAWS screen reader. Navigator 4 and IE5 were shit for a while until they started supporting it. Graphic images were still a problem, even after ALT tags became available, trying to get content makers to use them was a fight.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    To say nothing of Flash. Sighted navigation was nontrivial.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    oh god yes, flash and shockwave were awful. When my company used flash they also put text-only versions of the site up behind the scenes, but we were in the minority

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    So many mid-century googie disasters with bitcrushed sound effects whenever you so much as looked at a button. Homestar Runner isn't a parody, it's just how the web was. Toons! Toons! Chawacte--! Stooore!

    The most personally nostalgic version of this still accessible is surely some PC Gamer demo disc launcher. Coconut Monkey era navigation by bouncing around a starship to run the Final Fantasy VII installer. That presumably still works, too, since the most stable Linux API is Win32.

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