nineties.tech

Inspiration

I like web design, I like 90's web design, and I like 90's tech. So it all came together very naturally.

What it does

nineties.tech is a love letter to the silly, chunky, and experimental technology of the 90s. There's a Brian Eno quote about how we end up cherishing the annoyances of "outdated" tech: Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. I think this attitude persists today, and making a website in 90s web design style helped me put myself in the shoes of web designers from 30 years ago (albeit, with flexbox!)

How we built it

Built with Sveltekit, pure CSS and HTML, deployed with Cloudflare, domain name from get.tech.

Challenges we ran into

First time using Cloudflare. I repeatedly tried to deploy a non-working branch and was close to tears. Then I exited out to the Deployments page and realized that the fix I'd thrown into the config file actually worked.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Grinded out this website in the span of a few hours; came up with a cool domain name; first time deploying a website through Cloudflare; first time using Svelte.

What we learned

My friend Ivan helped me through the process of starting off with Svelte and serving sites through Cloudflare. This will be used for further nefarious and well-intentioned purposes in the future.

What's next for nineties.tech

User submissions? Longer, better-written out entries? Branch the site out into several different pages instead of putting everything into one page? Adding a classic 90's style navigation sidebar? Many ideas...

Built With

• cloudflare
• css3
• git
• github
• html5
• svelte
• sveltekit