The Original mcom.com Revived

saccade.com writes "For those of you that missed the emergence of the the World Wide Web the first time around, Mozilla co-founder JWZ has recreated it for you. In honor of Mozilla's tenth anniversary, he's recreated the original home.mcom.com sites in all their 1994 glory. He even has vintage browsers to go with them."

Re:Rickrolled?

[Brian Gordon]

You're 10 years ahead, trolling 10 years ago was punching monkeys..

Ahh, the days..

[Hyppy]

Ahh, the days when changing your browser's "background" color to anything other than (off-)white meant most pages became unreadable.

Oh, and good job, Slashdotters. The page is down already!

Re:Ahh, the days..

[dougmc]

Oh, and good job, Slashdotters. The page is down already!

I got the impression that that was part of the `early web experience'.

(Seriously, it looks like the web server is patched to feed data as if you were on a slow dialup ...)

That's not bandwidth throttling

[Just Some Guy]

Unfortunately, it seems to be running on Netsite.

Re:Ahh, the days..

[Hawthorne01]

Oh, and good job, Slashdotters. The page is down already!

Naah, they're just re-creating the experience of websurfing on a 14.4 modem.

Re:Ahh, the days..

[Brian Gordon]

They're certainly written to be like 1994.. WORST. HTML. EVER.

Next up

[i_ate_god]

revive gopher and geocities

Is it just me?

[kabocox]

That looked like a clean myspace page to me.

Re:Enough of this Acid3 nonsense...

[esocid]

What test would that be? If they can load text and jpegs progressively in less than 4 minutes?

the /. effect, 1994-style

[downix]

Well boys, we sure killed that connection fast.... feels just like the old days!

Re:Ahh, the days..

[twistedsymphony]

Oh, and good job, Slashdotters. The page is down already!

That's unpossible, slashdot readers never click to read the article.

Re:HYPE tag.

[Just Some Guy]

It was removed later 'for great justice'.

Re:Ahh, the days..

[Culture20]

I was using a 2400baud modem in 1995-1996 too, but I didn't have to select "don't load images" I was using lynx on a unix server I dialed into. My computer was an IBM 8086 with TWO 5.25 floppy drives. I could copy floppies like a mad man!