• hansolo@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    Yeah, this was sort of the “corporate-ish” color scheme and web design template back then for websites. Tons of things looked like this. Facebook looked like this for a decade or more. Large banner images took too long to load and this looked “professional” because it looked like corporate letterhead.

    Xerox used red, but similar layout to some degree.

    IBM’s website in 2002

    Random website from 2002

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      3 days ago

      Additionally, it looks a lot like Friendster’s default.

      (Hope you’re well, ol’ Tom. Wherever you are. 🥲🖖🏼)