Thank you Johnny Gilbert, Wheel ‘O Fortune, Jeopardy and all my favorite webmasters out there for KEEPING IT REAL.

http://www.jeopardytickets.tv/

HI. WELL WE’RE EARLY FOR SOME AND LATE FOR OTHERS. BUT LET’S REFLECT ON THIS YEAR’S CAPS LOCK DAY.

I’ve always had a strong opinion on the issues surround CAPS. Email, chat, and forum people call it SHOUTING, and frankly it does read loud and harsh. But CAPS are better, in almost every instance, for design. Take a look around you… what do you see? CAPS! Right? Look at the street sign, your tin of mints, a map, books, album covers: ALL CAPS. On that latter item, it reminds me all songs should be in caps so I don’t have to differentiate “STARS ON FIRE” from “Stars on Fire.” Just look at any old 45 and you see them again, CAPS CAPS CAPS.

Title Case Has Its Place. And for internet talking you generally want to go mixed case. But lest we never shun the UPPER CASE, the full proof, traditional, authoritative case. It’s the Helvetica of cases really. Let’s see some TOLERANCE out there.

Final note: all lowercase case is the lamest style of type and should never appear.

http://capslockday.com/
Thanks to The DLC for the link.

Back in the old days… back when men were men and kids were kids, McDonald’s playgrounds were something special…

And yes, I know photos would be nicer than lame handmade gifs. Sorry I don’t have those. Ah well.

So begins one of the most fascinating 1.0 pages I have found in a while. Beloved McDonalds playground equipment faithfully and lovingly crafted in awesome handmade gif. The memory of their creator, Frank15, is astounding in his recollections of the classic play areas, even includes detailed and dated maps of various locations.

Amazing. (Check out these original McD playground materials and compare.)

http://www.angelfire.com/la3/goldenroad15/mcdonalds.html

Back before HTML browsers got standardized (BORING) companies like IE and Netscape would introduce cool specialized tags, the most famous of which were <blink> and <marquee>. If you surrounded words in these tags they would either BLINK! or SCROLL LIKE A MARQUEE across the page.
Try viewing
this page
in Firefox
to see all the action!

For whatever reason, scores of know-it-all HTML designers decided to hate these awesome tags, and dissuade everybody from using them. Below, one of those responsible for the downfall of the awesome html tags ever:

“Don’t Blink Don’t Marquee”

Mad congrats to Nathan Toastytech for 10 long hatey years ranting about how much IE sucks. With Firefox & Safari & Modzilla around for so long, everybody is typing “oh yeah I hate internet explorer.” But dude Nathan has hated it A LOT and for A LONGER than ANYONE. (I bet.)

Nathan is the IE-Hater Supreme! And look! He loves Firefox and Modzilla!! Plus you can explore the webmaster’s awesome original artworks and even some funny!

ALL THIS AND MORE AT: http://toastytech.com/

This guy founded HowThingsWork.com which is a really popular site for figuring out how stuff works. What’s cool about this is, clearly, Marshall has a ton of $$$ but still refuses to hire fancy schmancy web developers. True belief & adherence to the ONE POINT OH spirit like this is a rare and beautiful thing to witness.

Don’t Miss:

• How To Make A Million Dollars (answer = start your own business)
• Misguided Star Wars Rant (funny)
• Various Robot Apocolypse Scenarios (awesome)

http://www.marshallbrain.com/

One of the good things about good 1.0 sites is when there is A LOT of cool stuff. Some web nerd put a link up to a Tradmark Violation page where I discovered the deeply leveled infinitely complex world of Tabberone (pronounced tabber-1).

This site has everything from loads of copyright issues, to awesome fabrics for sale, funny bumperstickers, and of course a kittie korner with kitten photos!

But most important. You do NOT want to cross tabberone or your gonna get the NorthStar / Re-Bath treatment. The Tabber1 internet beatdown!!!

http://www.tabberone.com/

We just want to take this moment to urge our readers at the 1.0i<3u charity cause. The guys at BadAssParty.com need our help. Basically explained, the charity is “a couple dozen working class slobs, originally from Michigan, of varying ages (all over 21) who are just trying to have one last really memorable party together.” Let’s get donating people, this bad ass party NEEDS to happen! I already submitted my party staff application so maybe I’ll see YOU in michigan when they figure out where its gonna be.

Have you ever wondered, What’s [insert persons name here] been up to? How have they been? Have they changed? We have asked ourselves those questions, and we havn’t been able to get together for years. This may well be our last chance to answer those questions for ourselves.
You can help make it all possible. For this we will hold you in the highest reguard, and We will drink a toast to every person who donates to us. If funding allows it we will be able to webcast the toast of us thanking You!

We at 1.0 i <3 you truly believe in this party cause and fully endorse this charity. Please give today; even one dollar helps people. Maybe you can least find it in your heart to buy some guy named j a beer.

Dear Loyal Reader. We’re Back! And We’re Better Then Ever!In celebration of our return, new designs, new features, and the ultimate: MINIDONK.COM

i found this business site at a funnyblog.

i think they were making fun of the design, but its’s truly a wonder creation harnessing great subtly of 1.0 design. the architecturlly well-framed site has everything tire consumers are looking for any years trhu 1999 or 2008.

we love robertson tire. a site only a true web master wizard could design.

http://www.robertson-tire.com/

UPDATE: Well RobTire has been upgraded to “web 2.0.” Hope those bloggers are happy. Let’s look at the archive:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030620025824/http://robertson-tire.com/