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From Flash Worlds to Bento Grids
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A two-column Doge comparison meme labels the left side "Designers 2003" and the right side "Designers 2023". The 2003 side shows a muscular Doge and a long caption: "I just launched my new Flash website which also is a whole game at the same time. Over 10.000 keyframes & tweens. Also developed my own soundtrack and custom button and animation sounds. Plus my own pixel font because I don't want to use a font everyone else uses. Once I finished compiling this Linux kernel I'll set up Apache and get this thing live!" The 2023 side shows a sad Doge with the text "Check out my bento grid". The joke contrasts the maximal, hand-built, multimedia chaos of early web design with modern layout trend repetition and lower-effort visual sameness.
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The 2003 designer shipped a game, a font, a soundtrack, and a server; the 2023 designer shipped eight rounded rectangles and called it a system.
can u post non-retarded embeds? You fuck up custom clients Comment deleted
i've got no problem on my end using a custom client. if any modification causes your app to be unable to do basic tasks you either do something in attempt to fix the obvious bug or simply stop using it. how is it realistically anyone else's problem? Comment deleted
shut up lil nigga, we use SailfishOS over here Comment deleted
Still don’t see why I should care Comment deleted
dot ai domain in bio detected, opinion rejected. Comment deleted
I made money by abusing the Down syndrome patients? Yes, that’s right, but only those who be hating on me in the comment section! — Morgenshtern Comment deleted
get out of here quick af degen Comment deleted
Why do you sometimes post memes like this anyway? Where it's a link to an image on aws, and the link text is a couple zero width spaces? Is it some preference about formatting, or gathering extra stats via the weblink, or what? Comment deleted
Actionscript they said, it's good they said. And where are they now? 😏 Comment deleted
it all goes back to es4 and what Microsoft did to it (and e4x which has nothing to do with it, but still suffered) afaik Comment deleted
I really miss those 2000's Flash wonders like X-Pressive's games: Teletubbies Mercy Killing Comment deleted
AS3 doesn't make SWF _any_ better as a file format. Perhaps from a user perspective, but the way all sorts of crap could hide in SWF was ghastly. Still not half as bad as PDF (with the exception of PDF/A). Comment deleted
What's wrong with PDF? I thought it was a declarative page definition language, lacking programming abilities of PostScript. (Although I am aware that some foreign objects may be embedded inside PDF, it's a matter of their handler to do things securely, rather than a property of the format or its top-level viewer application.) Comment deleted
Lets be honest, a lot of flash websites sucked Comment deleted
Especially when you had a screen that wasn’t 100% scaling Comment deleted
Pixel fonts were the peak of the internet Comment deleted
wait… offences are not prohibited here. Ok Comment deleted