Tiny repeating JPEGs let new webmasters tile a whole page with marble, stars, flowers, or whatever matched their five other graphics. Free-background directories were infrastructure for an era when everyone was building a homepage and most were not designers. Subtle? No. Personally chosen? Absolutely.
Original graphics archive: http://www.bigbeautifulbackgrounds.com/bbb/BBBindex.html
Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-big-beautiful-backgrounds-preserved-the-era-when-websites-wore-wallpaper/
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Original graphics archive: http://www.bigbeautifulbackgrounds.com/bbb/BBBindex.html
Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-big-beautiful-backgrounds-preserved-the-era-when-websites-wore-wallpaper/
#ancientweb #webdesign #graphics #personalweb
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Categories: Ancient Web & Internet History [c23]