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Websites From the Past: Patch Adams (1998)

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Laughter is contagious. And so to are websites from films that opened 10 years ago. 1999. Bill Clinton was president, the Euro was brand new, America was bombing Kosovo, Napster just debuted, MSN was just released, and Robin Williams was on top of the world. Patch Adams opened with a charming little "web page" that like Voyager probing the deepest reaches of our solar system is still going on long past it's shelf life.

The rollover states of the "links" are now legendary in the web design field - they're rainbows! And the media section had this great little things called "thumbnails" and "pop up video clips". This was web marketing for a film at the end of the 20th century. It was awesome. For those born after 1980, this was what the world was like pre-You-tube. Note the curious absence of Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Digg. What? No social media? How did this movie make $26 million on its opening weekend without social media? I'm confused. (via Graham)

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