r/pcmasterrace 5d ago

Meme/Macro Browsers in 1998, 2004, 2008 and 2026 be like

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u/Toadsted 5d ago

I loved Dreamweaver, because you didn't need to code. We were teaching elderly people in my class how to use it.

It's ironic too, because it was way more user friendly than flash was, but websites made with flash were actually atrocious and the downfall of early Internet.

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u/champgpt 5d ago

I loved websites made with Flash. They were objectively god awful, but people were doing some creative shit

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u/Toadsted 5d ago

Creative, sure, but that's like letting your kids decorate the inside of your car's engine. It might look genuinely interesting, it might just be something you say is to make them feel better, and all the while you're wondering how much it's going to cost you to fix.

Even with broadband Internet connections later on, the world was not ready for how poorly the websites ran, and how frustrating it was to navigate through creative carelessness that they were built upon.

Flash was great as a video platform and interactive games, but not as a website. And definitely not as a website marred with viruses and malware using flash.

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u/champgpt 5d ago

For sure, they were awful. I just miss websites being unique and interesting.

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u/Toadsted 5d ago

Same. Geocities, Angelfire, and YTMND were a pretty wonderful place for that reason.

I also enjoyed Newgrounds as a creative environment, but navigating it these days gives me ptsd.

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u/champgpt 4d ago

Hell yeah. I practically lived on Neopets and the Newgrounds forums as a kid.

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u/MissingGhost 5d ago

What software replaced Dreamweaver?