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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Creamtastic It Came From the '90s: My So-Called Band on Angelfire

Posted by Steve Haruch on Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:29 PM

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It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. In terms of design aesthetic on the World Wide Web, it was definitely the worst of times. For anyone who's ever had a "home page" with a counter, a web ring, an animated .gif for wallpaper or a tilde in the URL, My So-Called Band have a treat for you. They've put their html where their flannel is and put their official page on Angelfire. (Geocities = sadface.) Fire up the Netscape Navigator and surf on over to mysocalledband.angelfire.com!

Behold the centered everything (with no defined width), the giant photos, the Fresh Prince! Behold the web-safe color palette! Behold The Cranberries MIDI file on auto-play! Oh shit! It's not as egregiously '90s-core as the Sub Pop Cybersex digital promo page, but it captures the design zeitgeist of the era pretty convincingly. Kinda like their band does, see? Speaking of, they're playing Feb. 26 at Mercy Lounge. Feel free to say, "Whatever." I wonder what kind of shenanigans Blossom and Six are gonna get into tonight!

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midi songs still own my heart.
I feel like I'm in middle school.

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Posted by cato on 02/18/2010 at 4:22 PM

It's great but only ONE animated gif? c'mon dave.. you can do better than that.

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Posted by Michael on 02/18/2010 at 4:37 PM

Are they adding a guestbook?

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Posted by Ashley Spurgeon on 02/18/2010 at 4:59 PM

Go, go Mr. T Webring!

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Posted by Steve H. on 02/18/2010 at 5:01 PM

This website needs unnecessary frames. Bonus points if it's a header frame and you don't turn off the scroll bar.

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Posted by Lance on 02/18/2010 at 11:09 PM

How about a JS Welcome Alert? Or scrolling text in the status bar? One might even color the scroll bars.

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Posted by Freon on 02/19/2010 at 9:23 AM

ha ha... frames. awesomeness.

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Posted by patrick on 02/19/2010 at 5:54 PM
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