Animated cursors, blocks of text, and tacky hit counters – in short, the glory days of web design.
This blast to the past from Creative Market puts together a list of web design trends from the 1990s that were all the rage back then, but would make people of today want to claw their eyes out. The 90s was a decade of flashy and over-the-top things that were plain tacky, and we are excited to revisit those days.
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Repeated patterned backgrounds
A classic example of this would be the Space Jam site (pictured above), which is surprisingly still active. Take a look at the tiled galaxy background, which evokes a curious feeling of nostalgia and the slight disgust you feel when you look at your middle school photos.
Too much text
Amazon in 1995 had way less pictures and way more text than the Amazon it is today. Even sites that have a lot of text, like news sites, spice things up by adding pull out quotes and tons of visuals to make reading easier.
Skeumorphism
This word describes the concept of taking a real-world object and turning it into an interface for a device. The screenshot above is from the official website of the hit film Jurassic Park: The Lost World, and was one of the first attempts at viral marketing. Although Apple tried it as well, the idea soon got dropped. We guess people just prefer to keep the real and digital worlds separate.
Hit counters
If you didn't have one of these on your webpage, could it really have been a webpage of the 90s? These counters were made redundant because of a little software called Google Analytics.
Animated cursors
These were a must-have on ev ery blog and MySpace page. Although they're small, they add a whole bunch of pizzazz and character to an otherwise dull webpage. If glitter wasn't for you, you could choose flames. The possibilities were endless with these.
[via Creative Market]
Source: Popular Web Design Trends Of The 90s That Wouldn't Work Now
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