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Misty

Pizza Hut website (ca 1996, in NCSA Mosaic 3)

BTW I should mention that this is a screenshot taken via oldweb.today, a website that lets you emulate a bunch of old browsers to browse the wayback machine or even the live web. oldweb.today

It's a @webrecorder project, and *very* cool IMO.

@misty aaaaaa I'm so happy internet archive did manage to grab a snapshot of this. I assume that's where the screenshot actually comes from, too (December 1996): web.archive.org/web/1996121920

web.archive.orgWayback Machine

@zkat Yep! I generated it via oldweb.today, which lets you browse the wayback machine (or live websites) using a bunch of emulated old browsers. oldweb.today

@misty @zkat YOOOOOO I did not knew this existed, but this is something I really wanted to have. Thanks!

@misty I remember cloudflare inserting [email protected] into pages in 1996...

@misty Just seeing the SCO logo sent me on a very vivid trip down memory lane. Wow.

@misty hmm @merlin do you want to order some pizza for during the bowling?

@misty Back when websites had to load in a reasonable time frame on a 9600 baud modem.

optimized PNG/GIFs

typically ~25KB all in with graphics and html... <3

@kajer @misty definitely not PNG. That format was not even standard back then, and did not get browser support until much later.
In 1996 that would have been either a JPEG or a (optionally animated) GIF.

@mbpaz @misty you're probably right. I remember getting GIFs down to 4-5 colors just to save that extra few bytes.

@mbpaz @kajer Web browsers started to support it by 1997! But yeah, this is NCSA Mosaic in 1996, so definitely no PNG on this page. Looks like it's a GIF. web.archive.org/web/1996121920

web.archive.orgWayback Machine

@misty @eloy [email protected], was Cloudflare already a thing back then!