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I wonder if there's a way to convince customers that gaudy websites use more electricity.
"Okay, we want a little kitten chasing the mouse, a pair of eyes that follow the pointer everywhere, a background of sparkly eagles, an autoplay MIDI file of "Nearer my God to Thee," a pop-up where visitors have to register to receive E-mail from us before they can read the site, at least three webrings, a counter, and our 17-minute commercial playing in the corner there in an unstoppable window."
"Hm. Have you considered how much wattage a site like that will take up? All those features are going to pull down more power than an air conditioner. The kitten alone costs about seven cents a day. Far better we design something simple and informative."
"Oh, I hadn't even thought of that. You're right; maybe it's best if we keep it simple."
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Quoth dalesys View PostEnough of dasblinkenlights to outshine the sun strobing with enough power to give a tree an epileptic attack.
Warning: TV tropes link and corresponding time sink..."Bring me knitting!" (The Doctor - not the one you were expecting)
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Quoth Ben_Who View PostI wonder if there's a way to convince customers that gaudy websites use more electricity.
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I had a Geocity site - it was plain medium blue background, white lettering. One static image on the front page, links to 3 internal pages, one of photographs I wanted to share. No blinking, spinning, flaming or otherwise active images.
And I did like random walking around webrings now and again, there were some fascinating web pages in the early years.
[and I was geek enough that my Virginia license plate in the mid 80s was CYBER-1. I had to change it after moving to Connecticut because in the 90s it started referring to sex online. *sigh*]EVE Online: 99% of the time you sit around waiting for something to happen, but that 1% of action is what hooks people like crack, you don't get interviewed by the BBC for a WoW raid.
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