A Nostalgic look back at 90s Web Design - SE Members Blog post - syndication express : A Nostalgic look back at 90s web design, and a warning to anyone whose website is an accidental anachronism. Back in the days when every PC was beige, every website had a little Netscape icon on the homepage, Geocities and Tripod hosted just about every single personal homepage, and 'Google' was just a funny-sounding word? The mid-late 1990s were the playful childhood of the worldwide web, a time of great expectations for the future and pretty low standards for the present. Those were the days when doing a web search meant poring through several pages of listings rather than glancing at the first three results but at least relatively few of those websites were unabashedly profit-driven. Hallmarks of 1990s Web Design When someone says that a website looks like it came from 1996, it's no compliment. You start to imagine loud background images, and little 'email me' mailboxes with le