MiniInfo Presents: SpeedyKildari

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Vilhelm Benkern
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MiniInfo Presents: SpeedyKildari

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I always liked the really old micronational websites, so naive and badly designed, and thinking about those old sites - many lost to the geocities wipe - when it occured to me that we are part of a wider internet culture which has many forms. This is the application of one of those forms to our fictional world. It is very much a work in progress but it will grow quickly.

http://speedykildari.webs.com/ [Edit: note, see below, new site here. Bring your MIDI-loving headphones!]

The reference is to 'kidd of speed', which when I actually think about it I realise some of you may not be familiar with. Part of my intention was to create a real Web 1.0 experience but I hoped to be able to do that in the way that those websites would have originally been made, i.e. very quickly indeed. In fact it actually requires more work to do that than just to use free webdesigners like webs. The format might change substantially, therefore.

Of course content contributions are very welcome.
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Dirigent of Musica, Count of Mar Sara
In Aryasht Prapta Vrteti, former Prince of Aryasht; Zaila Vrteti, Norfolknath
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This is very very cool, you captured the web 1.0 experience, but you forgot to use the flash-tags.

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Post by Tokaray al-Osman »

Nice, charming in fact. Yet I'm afraid it is a little too polished to full capture the essence of those old websites that used to be vomited onto geocities and alt.vista or whatever it was back in the day.

I remember that the old Babkha website used to have a peculiar fondness for frames.
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Post by Krasniy Yastreb »

Innovative and Cute. I look forward to seeing more of this.

...though to capture the essence of web 1.0, you want essentially zero formatting; text pretty much touching the edges of the screen, with the images added between breaks and uploaded as heavily compressed, artifact-ridden JPEGs. Oh and a grating MIDI soundtrack that plays as soon as you load the page and can't be turned off.

That said, what you've got is good so don't change it :)

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I'll try to include your suggestions. :) I am currently scanning all the free MIDI sites I can find for appropriately jarring music. Frames are definitely a must, how could I forget frames?

Edit:... MIDIs are brilliant.
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Vilhelm Benkern DEOMI, Member of the Order of the Dragon, Silver Swan, Red Dragon
Dirigent of Musica, Count of Mar Sara
In Aryasht Prapta Vrteti, former Prince of Aryasht; Zaila Vrteti, Norfolknath
In Elwynn Benjamin Sebasokrator Timothy Quentin Kern, Duke of Raikoth
In Khalypsil Representative of the Wisdom

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Doesn't seem to work.
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2.Eki Aholibamah Verion, Queen in the North
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It should now. Only the front page is uploaded at the moment, other pages under construction.
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In Aryasht Prapta Vrteti, former Prince of Aryasht; Zaila Vrteti, Norfolknath
In Elwynn Benjamin Sebasokrator Timothy Quentin Kern, Duke of Raikoth
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Indeed it is working now, it surely gives a good insight in the world of an ordinary kildari. :)
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Milord Benkern, you've surpassed yourself! What a wonderful tribute to more innocent times...

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OMG frames! I haven't seen frames since the AIN website!

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