Do you still remember what the web looked like in the 1990s? We present to you various design trends that were once common on the web, such as Comic Sans, click counters, and animated GIFs, which are still used today, but in a different way.
1. Comic Sans font
Once a very popular font included in Microsoft Windows 95 and beyond, it is still popular with a small group of people who are trying to make the font find its way back to adoration. The font also got a makeover - Comic Neue.
2. Website logos under construction
Once the best way to tell visitors that your site is still "under construction", today it is no longer considered aesthetic. It was replaced by a simple "Soon" and a mailing list. Of course, the old way hasn't died completely yet - you still have sites that use the exact same ways to inform visitors.
3. Shading and gradients
Shading used to be an immensely “cool” way to show off our Photoshop skills. Just a few clicks and boom! We got great graphics. Today's design uses more subtle ways of shading, but above all, it has more options. Also gradients or gradients were once a very popular feature, the use of which was abused. This trend has also fallen away, but is still – just like shading – used more subtly.
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4. Animated GIF
Do you still remember the dancing baby or the spinning earth on your computer screen? An extremely popular trend of the nineties, which was used by just about everyone. Today, they are mainly used in the marketing emails of some major companies, such as West Elm, Bed Bath & Beyond and Starbucks.
5. Excessive use of image material from image banks
Even today, the use of pictorial material is exaggerated in some places, but some images from image banks used to be used everywhere: shaking hands, a group of friends and a happy family.
6. Click counter
The early creators of the web wanted to record website traffic data with counters, which unfortunately were often inaccurate. Although it is no longer used in principle today, there are still websites with counters - this instills (false) confidence, as we can see how many visitors have already skimmed that website.
