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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Labs I’ve been in also have at least one inexplicable and kinda scary metal and asbestos monster from the 60s. Like this spinny boi:

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ahh centrifuges, the second most terrifying piece of lab equipment after the intern.

https://web.mit.edu/charliew/www/centrifuge.html they sometimes do this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Interesting story and useful safety message, but awful web page design. Who puts white text on a nearly-white speckled background?

Edit: Turns out this isn't the fault of the webpage, other than the choice of background. Text is perfectly readable in Light Mode on Firefox Desktop and Mobile.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's the early internet for ya 😎. I agree it's bad by today's standards, but these kind of pages have such a strong nostalgic quality for me. I just wish modern pages loaded in a femtosecond like this one did.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It did load very quickly, and is a very clean page. Just text, pictures, and links.

No banner taking up the top third of the screen, no autoplaying videos, no popup to receive notifications, no cookie warning...

Fun link: https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Who puts white text on a nearly-white speckled background?

Huh? Your browser may be in dark mode or something. Text color is explicitly set to black in the markup.

For the uninitiated, this was pretty typical personal web design from 1997-1999 or so. But the background doesn't tessellate, and makes the text hard to read in any color, which makes it pretty poor example.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Your browser may be in dark mode or something.

Yup, that was it. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Made in West Germany and sounds like someone's pouring salt into a hair drier, but still more reliable than the Beckman centrifuge bought in 2010.