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@chris poa.st altogether looks eminently defederatable. will do.

@PhenomX6 @coolboymew woops. apparently it was so ugly that it crashed the server.

if you ever feel bad or unsure about your #art, take a few seconds to and stare intensely at this screenshot

these #worldwideweb buttons were made by yours truly in 1996, for the ISP that I worked for as a sixteen-year-old.

i had a (pirated) copy of Photoshop, and a set of Kai's Power Tools plug-ins for it. my boss asked me to spruce up our FTP's home page with some classy buttons.

'....while suggesting the free treatment of form attributed to fauvism, this quite inappropriately.. attempts to juxtapose the cubistic styles of picasso and léger'

@coolboymew happily, anyone with sufficiently bad taste and a copy of KPT can paint the town green-blue

request for input: what do you consider the most *beautiful* #webpage or site of the late 1990s or early 2000s?

too often over the past ten years i've seen the late 90s web aesthetics poked at as "ugly", "brutalist", etc, along with cherry-picked examples of sites that *no one* thought were beautiful in their time.

i'd like to change that by creating a link page with examples of stuff we found beautiful in their time. if you can remember the url or the name of the site, i'll do my best to find an archived copy of it (if one exists).

one of my favourite mini-essays on early #1990s #worldwideweb #aesthetics: kevin steele's When Bevelled Edges Were Cool

the essay discusses the constraints of graphic design in the early 90s with #macintosh #Hypercard, and introduces the (at the time) famous Mackerel Stack

http://www.kevinsteele.com/smackerel/bevelledTitle.html