Topic: Why did websites ever have frames?
Anonymous A started this discussion 12 years ago #34,858
Back in the day. Was there an actual purpose for them?
Syntax joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 13 minutes later[^] [v] #479,885
One thing I remember those dial up days'
Use of frames cut bw and less taxing on servers back when servers were cranky old machines.
ISP's wood cache popular front pages and drive you nuts until you learned to hit F5
Use of frames cut bw and less taxing on servers back when servers were cranky old machines.
ISP's wood cache popular front pages and drive you nuts until you learned to hit F5
Metæ joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 14 minutes later, 28 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #479,888
@OP
Website design was just less advanced back then. They were annoying as hell, just like animated intros and MIDIs playing automatically in the background.
Website design was just less advanced back then. They were annoying as hell, just like animated intros and MIDIs playing automatically in the background.
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 46 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #479,892
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Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #479,893
squeegee !first/o5zA joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 7 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #479,894
niggers
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Metæ replied with this 12 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #479,897
@479,892 (D)
Yo dawg, we herd you liek Minichan, so we put a Minichan in your Minichan so you can shitpost while you shitpost.
Yo dawg, we herd you liek Minichan, so we put a Minichan in your Minichan so you can shitpost while you shitpost.
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Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 12 hours later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #479,954
Most small websites back then didn't use dynamic code or CSS, so frames solved two problems for menus: keeping it consistent across every page of your site and dividing the page into columns. The alternatives were SSI and tables (harder and still shit) or CSS (very buggy at the time thanks to IE).
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@479,954 (I)
This.
CSS changed everything. A bunch of other shit too. The way websites/databases are built has been evolving at a rapid pace for a long time. I can't imagine trying to keep up.
This.
CSS changed everything. A bunch of other shit too. The way websites/databases are built has been evolving at a rapid pace for a long time. I can't imagine trying to keep up.