Viaweb's front page just before we got bought by Yahoo in 1998. You can see why we rendered text as images in those days. Browser text wasn't even antialiased.pic.twitter.com/VXK1Cb9Kf3
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Clumsy as it looks now, Viaweb's site was very slick for its time. We were an online store builder, and high production values are the key to making a convincing online store. Here's what Microsoft's site looked like then (via @pingdom).pic.twitter.com/vnMgWpCAB0
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Good grief
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they really wanted you to know that they were having legal problems
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you can hear this gif.
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Microsoft has never had a decent website.
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Those left hand navigation bars. Why did navigation move to the top. Something convenient about the side bar.
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Design-driven design vs dev-driven design.
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What an evolution
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UI has come a long way!
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whoa.
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