Dole Kemp 96 Web Site (dolekemp96.org)

Looks like it's hugged to death

Wonder how well their motto aged: "More opportunities. Smaller government. Stronger and safer families"

Clinton Gore 96 https://www.livingroomcandidate.org/websites/cg96/

Role Hemp! I miss those days.

Someone had to keep renewing that .org registration. Not a lot of money, but also not free.

Here's the page you were looking for: https://www.dolekemp96.org/about/cookies/cookies.html

Wasn't Bob Dole a technology investor? That would make sense.

Which reminds me of Treehouse of Horror VII.

"The politics of failure have failed. We need to make them work again! Tomorrow, when you are sealed in the voting cubicle, vote for me, Senator Ka... ... Bob Dole!"

I wish they would simulate the extremely slow load times to make it feel time-period accurate. You were waiting multiple seconds for images to appear before you even had any idea what you were looking at.

Clicking Dole Interactive > Computer leads to some very small "wallpapers"

> Bill Clinton Wants to Put "Big Brother" in Your Computer

ahh yes, the "Clipper Chip"

Faster than 99% of websites today. 2.18 html, 86Kb total.

Perfect lighthouse performance: https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-www-dolekemp96-org-...

Seeing the phrase "Smaller government" in a main tagline is so weird to see. Don't think that's an idea really any politician would even pay lip service to anymore.

Imagine being paid consultant-level fees to build a website with Notepad and MS-Paint. Those were the times...

Has the site actually been running all this time? I notice that the generator tag says "FrontPage 12" (post-2003), and site has a TLS certificate, which in 1996 it most certainly would not have had.

I used to host at a facility in DC that hosted Pat Robertson's presidential campaign's server.. they had surrounded his server with all of their adult hosting clients as a... show of support.