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    Draw the Drapes Recognized Member rubah's Avatar
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    dialup beware

    Why have those website layouts that involved image mapping a ton of little PNG files that were each about 55kb and there's probably about twenty of them, making it about four minutes for a site to load at best, and they all showed up one at a time, so you'd get to say 'oh, there's this guy's head! and his shoulders! what the crap, why are his feet there? oh, there's the torso'

    I mean, this is the sort of time that they'd actually almost be practical. Back a couple of years ago when they were big, I know I was still on dialup.

    What web fads have you noticed missing lately?

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    MySpace.

    Actually, I just wish it was missing.


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    Ominous Wanderer Tech Admin Samuraid's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hsu
    MySpace.

    Actually, I just wish it was missing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hsu
    EoFF

    Actually, I just wish it was missing.

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    Ads and popups

    Actually, I don't miss them since it's nicer now they're mostly gone for me
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    Who's scruffy lookin'? Captain Maxx Power's Avatar
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    P2P killed of "Warez" sites. Yes, they were illegal, but there was a real sense of achievement when you got past all the pop-ups, porno and "press this button one, then this button once" nonsense and actually reached your goal. Now you just find a torrent or search for it. Where's the fun in that?
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    MySpace is the worst showcase of coding I have ever seen on a major website. It's atrocious. I can't even load some of the pages on occasion. They're horrible. Ugh.

    Sorry, slightly off-topic rant, that was. Uhm. Fad that's missing. Uhm. I know of a fad that's been missing... missing like a fox!
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    dizzy up the girl Recognized Member Rye's Avatar
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    Those tiny little x's for navigation and the cross for a cursor.


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    any site changing my cursor is subject to being roundhouse kicked in the face

    oh wait. I didn't miss the c**** n***** fad. I got too much of it. I wish I'd missed it.

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    Punctuation, capitalization, taking the time to type entire words...

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    Myspace. It's useful to keep in touch with people and for networking but there is something about it that just drives me mad about it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jess
    Myspace. It's useful to keep in touch with people and for networking but there is something about it that just drives me mad about it.
    I agree it's just evil that's all

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