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Early internet nostalgia (infosec.pub)

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

To say nothing of Flash. Sighted navigation was nontrivial.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours 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.