After hearing the ad on my drive to work for the umpteen billionth time I finally got curious and went to check out their own website (I they're charging people to build websites, they're own website must be a pretty awesome demonstration of their skills, right?)

The website looked like absolute garbage and, upon viewing the source, the meta tags clearly betrayed the fact that it was created in Word.

I can only imagine how much money they were paying to run those ads. I even considered the possibility I was being pranked somehow.

[–] starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

In fairness websites from 2000-2004 werent all that better

Were there better ways to make a site? Absolutely, but it is much less wild than if you told me that this happened last week. Plus i would hope they were just churning out websites for cheap since a lot places didn't have a website, or they used geocities/similar

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

For me that's the golden age, and after that: darkness, desperation, flash.

[–] glockenspiel@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

I don't care what you say, the Apple store circa 2001 is iconic and definitely has that "lickability" factor that Jobs loved so much about the original OS X's Aqua UI.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

Word? Not FrontPage? That was an improvement.