Maybe it's just me, but I find the scrolling effects obnoxious and floaty. Like I never quite have control over what element I'm scrolling. Just imprecise enough to make it annoying af.
Maybe it's a reference to the old school modem speeds back when you could take a few sips from your cup of coffee while watching a website load and build up.
Cool page. There is quite a bit of aliasing on the wireframe. Three.js simply uses the anti-aliasing setting from the getContext call for webgl. The default here will be 4 samples [1].
I think it would have been best to do a custom super sampling for the wireframe model.
This was pretty fascinating. I actually still have my 128K Mac, as well as an Apple sweatshirt, that my dad bought for me in 1985. I lugged that sucker around university. Last I looked (about 8 years ago) it had some kind of boot error, not sure if it's the same one as Giogi's. Now I'm tempted to unearth it and revisit.
I hate when elitist jerks decide my greater than 1080p phone display is somehow inadequate for showing their grand artistic vision and I'm not allowed to look at their photos of an old Mac unless I do so exactly the way they want me to.
I get not wanting to redesign everything for portrait mode, but a simple "This page was mainly designed with desktops in mind, please turn your phone to landscape" would've done the trick just as well.
or my portrait mode desktop system. Especially when "view source" shows all of the content got downloaded, it's just refusing to render. Get over it, scroll bars exist.
I gotta say this is one of the best ever position sticky, scroll animation fests I have ever browsed. It was smooth the whole time, and handled window resize by basically saying 'fu' to the user I'm going to start from the beginning. However, saying all this, I think it's a pretty terrible form for giving importance to the content. It just continually distracts from the words on the page, and I end up just playing with the scroll toy instead of caring about what the article is about. Maybe sour grapes, because I struggled with similar web projects in the past. So I have true admiration for the makers of this but I feel like it turns the page from some article about the macintosh to a cool scroll experience.
Nice. He didn't say which vintage electronics store in Tucson, but there is a good chance it's Elliott Electronics... an electronics store with big surplus (tools/aviation/machinery/everythingelse) store under the same roof.
Deliberately wasting your time on mobile, taking 10 seconds before telling you to view on desktop. Doesn't even respect desktop mode. Hard down vote. Very unpleasant experience.
Very mean webpage, you are forbidden from reading the article if you use side-by-side browser windows on 1920x1080.
On another note, the Mac having only 128K of RAM was somewhat balanced out by having much of the operating system code (QuickDraw, etc) live in ROM instead.
I have read through the whole site except the color restoration section. Unfortunately, I am still missing the meaning of this “84-24”. Anyone care to eli5 please?
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[1] https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:thi...
Also, it seems that we have to say goodbye to some basic browser features, like "Print". Nobody cares about the printing stylesheet anymore.
On another note, the Mac having only 128K of RAM was somewhat balanced out by having much of the operating system code (QuickDraw, etc) live in ROM instead.
No one seems to care though and it's becoming increasingly frequent, maybe I'm in the wrong place.