Web Design Museum

It is impressive how design has changed thru the years. Just compare the 1996 Space Jam web https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/space-jam-1996 with its current design https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

It's cool to see the website[1] of the startup/dotCom I worked at in the early 2000s captured there! The website won the navigation award at Macromedia's fashforward event, and I still think holds up quite well even over 20 years later. The zoom navigation was quite interesting and worked well on mobile devices like the HP iPAQ PDAs we tested it on. [1] https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/relevare-2002

One thing that stands out starkly from the early Internet is the personal touch that websites had in their design. You can see that the design was not a replication of some standard web design technique but rather an expression of the person's or the company's aura [1]. Even information-dense websites like [2] were laid out in such a way as to aid discoverability and choice on the part of the user. Now we have transitioned to an algorithm-based information…

I'm glad to see they have a whole section for 2Advanced. My programming tutor at college told us not to worry about the internet, treating it as a fad. I learnt html (and css) using View Source. And in my world of "my god, the things you can do if you collapse table borders", I spent hours clicking around 2Advanced witchcraft.