{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Something I remember from Web 1.0 was background images that just looked like wallpaper\nLike, pastel or beige or other mild...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/184005199293/", "html": "<p>Something I remember from Web 1.0 was background images that just looked like wallpaper</p><p>Like, pastel or beige or other mild colors with unobtrusive repeating elements</p><p>Which seems weird now why insert ANY such obnoxiousness vs. white backgrounds but back then a well-tiled 4-8Kb gif* could make your whole page colorful while style sheets hadn\u2019t been invented yet and colorful spot illustrations could take upwards of a minute to load</p><p>*back then gifs weren\u2019t synonymous with animation, known more for reduced color palettes (and thus file sizes) vs. jpegs</p>"}