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7.07.2025 - Oh great. Tomorrow is gonna be hot weather and I was about to say that I'm feeling happy to have cold weather. I hope that heat won't be that long, so I don't have to sleep in the heat weather. Anyway. I was examining the old sites and made me thinking about design. How did it go from GameSpy era and Planet Games from IGN to some bland and boring solid colors? Why? What's so appealing to look those stupid single colors? Where's the variety and personality of them? It's just repulses me to look at those designs we have in modern internet. Which is infuriating to see them like this. Honestly, I'm glad that I'm born in the great era of internet. Flash games were absolute blessing in my childhood and I enjoyed playing them a lot! These flash games websites also had personality depending on which you'll visit. Smooth, geometric, stylish, cozy and even more pleasant to watch! I remember there was some sort of mascot of one flash site. It was a blue alien or was it a dinosaur on 2 legs. And depends on which category of flash you want, it'll swap animation. Such as if you watch movies. It'll sit on the armchair and eat popcorn. Hopefully people who are reading my diary will understand what I mean. There's also Newgrounds, which is still going strong and it's quite impressive that some of the artists in that site are recruited as game devs or actors. Oh and I remember there was another community website for Quake called "QuakeUnity". I remember I used to scavenge some good maps, mods and skins before it's completly gone. It served as news, tournament announcement and also downloads to stuff. Design maybe not that interesting, at least it had some homely vibes. I'm grateful for the Internet Archive with their quest to preserve every major stuff, besides just books, movies, music and etc. Watching old websites became like my hobby to study on them. Wish there were popularity of sites made in pleasant and appealing design from late 90s and early 2000s. Those were good ones. | |
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