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Oh god. Time is a flat circle, 90s are having a comeback, now this, tomorrow under construction gifs and faux 3D buttons in framesets.

The cringiest part is I do believe their usecase (huge annoying CLICK cursors over “buy now” buttons) just _might_ increase conversions enough to be worthwile.

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This site triggered all kinds of old memories for me. Setting my cursor to be an X-Wing in Win95/98. VRML. That brief stretch of time when setting custom scrollbar styles for your site was considered cool.

The status bar! We should bring that back.

<table><tr><td><table><tr><td>Welcome to my website!</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Firefox (I mean Phoenix, or is it Firebird?) being ultra slim and fast. I miss that.

And yeah, framesets. Oh man. I bet there are millions of lines of Javascript and CSS that exist solely because frames aren't hip.

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