Post #3318032
2026-06-08 05:05 UTC
@ifixcoinops@retro.social I made a website in pure HTML without js or php or CSS, all tables, buttons, all that guff, decades ago, and hosted it on angelfire. Its still out there, I guess, but ads have eaten half of it and I can't access the back end and elete the site without signing up and paying money to angelfire which, lol no,.so there it stays.
I'm still a little proud of it tho. I really miss when you could code a website from literally nothing and 20mb was more than enough for a site
EDIT: my bad i might have used JS for the mouseover effect on the buttons (literally swapping one image for another and then back again when the mouse comes off it). Seriously it's been years since I even LOOKED at the page. I can't even remember the URL. last time I found it again I tried to log in to delete the whole thing, but NOPE.
So yeah. one JS element I guess. for mouseover. welp.
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@lunareclipse@snug.moe 2026-06-08 10:49
@Nine@chitter.xyz @ifixcoinops@retro.social to be fair 20mb is still more than enough for a site as long as you have no (large) media in it webp can crunch down images to mind boggling sizes much better than JPEG could, you can have a shared CSS file for the whole website, and you can fit quite a lot of HTML and text in that space
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@patterfloof@meow.social 2026-06-08 11:13
@Nine@chitter.xyz @ifixcoinops@retro.social the time when there was little enough in html it was expected that anyone could pick it up, combined with free space everywhere. Plus the ease & access of "view source". See something interesting on a website, you could figure out how to copy it (even if the fancy header was just a gif)