Under Construction

http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/

69 20 5 years ago

Cute page.

All it needs now is one of those (This site best viewed with Netscape Navigator) icons or my favorite, the icons that used to rotate between (Site Served By IIS)/(Best viewed in DIMENSION)/(Something about usage of ActiveX tech).

bruce343434• 5 years ago

Best viewed in DIMENSION

Opinionated software before it was cool.

royjacobs• 5 years ago

And I assume there'd be some sort of web ring involved as well?

PhasmaFelis2• 5 years ago

I'm curious if the site is actually that slow, or if they deliberately throttled it for verisimilitude.

Fun stuff, either way.

jaywalk2• 5 years ago

It appears to be deliberate, since these are just small static files and the rest of the site is still fast. I find it incredibly annoying.

krapp• 5 years ago

It makes the experience more authentic.

PhasmaFelis2• 5 years ago

It may also be that even modern browsers have some trouble loading and rendering 940 animated gifs in parallel, even very small ones. That's probably not a common use case.

osmyn• 5 years ago

Malware bytes blocked that site for me; reportedly due to a trojan

mananaysiempre• 5 years ago

The site a well-known (for some definition of the term) collection of very old files, so it’s probably an ancient signature for a DOS boot virus or something similar. I’d be very disturbed if there really was something worth worrying about there.

bitwize• 5 years ago

"Hey! Sticklyman! WHAAAAT are you doing?"

https://homestarrunner.com/toons/under-construction

Oh my gosh, some of them are headers from old-school (1.0.x) JavaDocs...

joshxyz• 5 years ago

Man this gave me goosebumps HAHAHA

butz• 5 years ago

Heads up: 943 requests, 8.22MB

arthurcolle• 5 years ago

still more performant than modern React based systems

systemvoltage• 5 years ago

shots fired

grimmdude• 5 years ago

this is true

em-bee• 5 years ago

on my own website my response to this craze back then was to take one of those icons, change it to be crossed out and write: "this site is NOT under construction!" next to it.

Stampo00• 5 years ago

Can't wait to see what they end up putting on this page!

ksec• 5 years ago

Missing "This page requires Windows® Internet Explorer® v5.5 or later".

LocalH• 5 years ago

Hah, there's one there that I'd believe not to be an "under construction" graphic, but a graphic from a website about the C64 game Ultimate Wizard (there's a light green-on-black "Construction" that looks noticeably out of place)

Under Construction

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