Captain Marvel throwback site

[codetrotter]

I think they did a great job of capturing the essence of the late 90’s and early 00’s homepages web with this.

The technical implementation details not being historically accurate don’t matter IMO.

It’s about the aesthetics and the spirit.

I feel at home.

See also Prof. Dr. style which is related though a bit more toned down. http://contemporary-home-computing.org/prof-dr-style/

[judge2020]

> The technical implementation details not being historically accurate don’t matter IMO.

Same, it doesn't matter. If anything, the fact that both this page and the movie itself use modern techniques to convey '95 style and setting just adds to the experience.

[bostonpete]

I dunno, looks way too good on mobile to be a 90's site... ;-)

[Aloha]

I think its because both <blink> and <marquee> no longer work in modern browsers consistently.

Also, fun thing I noticed, if you google for <marquee> a part of the results page scrolls side to side, like marquee would!

[monocasa]

In case anyone hasn't seen the original Space Jam website.

https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

[SwiftyBug]

I'm glad monitors back then didn't have the contrast they do now. It literally hurts my eyes.

[CM30]

Interesting how even this throwback apparently requires JavaScript to run. Guess your devs couldn't stay away from the SPA setup for a single site then?

[outsidetheparty]

I'm 99% sure that's part of the joke. Personally I love how much effort was expended here to make the latest techniques look like the oldest ones.

[seba_dos1]

It's 300KB of JS and 3.5MB of content. Viewing it back then would be very, very painful (and even today could be way faster).

[thosakwe]

Is it seriously that big a deal that a website uses Javascript?

[svantana]

Wasn't javascript the main way to get moving elements in webpages? Here they're using css animations, which definitely weren't around in those days. So I guess the style is throwback, not the implementation...

[crooked-v]

Should have used SSR if they really had to stick with the SPA angle for it.

[classichasclass]

Outstanding, but it would be even funnier if it actually did render on Netscape Navigator 3.

[burk96]

The Browse Happy upgrade your browser thing was admittedly disappointing to find in the source

[bane]

I kept scrolling down to find the "Marvel Web Ring" and found the hidden Stan Lee instead.

[giorgioz]

I also found the tiny gif of Stan Lee in the long empty footer. It appears if you pass over it with the mouse. Does it do anything else?

[minimaxir]

Interesting way to do a throwback but still maintain modern web-design standards (OG tags, responsive, SEO, etc.)

Viewing a real 1995 site on a mobile device is not as pleasant.

[archgoon]

Also unicode.

Я0XX0ЯZ!!1

I seem to recall that Western or Latin-1 encoding was more common (or at least, Netscape would assume) than UTF-8 in 1995. This resulted in some sites not displaying Russian characters correctly when you visited a site that didn't specify the encoding. Manually setting the encoding at times would be required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1

[kokokokoko]

I always enjoy these old school style sites. DHTMLConf had a fun one a while back[0].

What is a little strange is that I'm starting to see these sites as fun and refreshing as opposed to annoying and obtrusive. I wonder if we are getting close to a flip in design tastes away from making UX as minimal as possible.

[0] http://dhtmlconf.com

[gambiting]

What's strange to me is that younger Marvel fans(say a 12 year old born in 2007) would probably have no idea why this is amazing.

[craigkerstiens]

This is amazing, reminds me of a colleague's personal site: http://bitfission.com/. He built it as a bit of de-stressing after a really long work week many years ago dealing with a major AWS outage. I believe he even combed through the geocities archives to be historically accurate.

[discopicante]

Solid 90s. Would have been even more authentic if upon viewing the source code I would have seen more <table>, <center>, and <font> tags.

[drchiu]

Absolutely. First thing I did when I landed was view source code. Regardless, nice piece of work.

[lukifer]

Complete with <blink> tag, re-implemented with CSS3 animations. Well-played, Marvel.

[ancarda]

There's no "under construction" GIF. I'm very disappointed.

[balivandi]

Nor a page hit counter!!!

[ChoGGi]

:) I was looking for one as well.

[rayiner]

Still better than many modern sites.

1) You can clearly tell what's a link or a button.

2) It doesn't break scrolling or the back button.

[ian0]

First the "make your sites pages instant" snippet and now this. How lovely it is to click on a link and not wait :)

The last time I can remember that feeling is when I first arrived at college. The LAN network in the college was connected to the largest backbone link in the country. We had download speeds of 1mb / second. It blitzed through geocities sites.

[irrational]

Be sure to scroll down to the comments at the bottom. Hilarious in jokes.

[oakmad]

Oh how this made me realize just how much I miss the internet of the 90s.

[nazri1]

Blank space at the bottom - just so when you page down through the page and reach the end, the last readable content would correctly shift up the same amount as the previous shift.

[raydev]

The most impressive part, to me: they've compressed the images in a way that makes them look like they were rendered when I used IE4 on my Windows 3.11 machine.

What sort of compression is it where all the colors are comprised of cross+star shapes? How would you compress these images to look like this in 2019?

[akhilcacharya]

I'm not sure if I should dislike it for trying to hard or liking it even more for trying too hard.

[minimaxir]

From one of the developers: "We built this in FrontPage and host it [on] Angelfire"

https://twitter.com/loriabys/status/1094032684630925312

[gourneau]

If you want to see another stunning tribute to the internet times of yore checkout https://www.cameronsworld.net/ (make sure to turn on the sound)

PS: Plz join my webring ;)

[aerovistae]

Don't really understand the relevance of the site's throwback style to the film itself. Anyone care to explain?

[berberich]

It takes place in the 90's.