Alluding to the movie’s race of good-guy aliens, its blue title bar identifies it as a Kree Player 1.0. There are even some animated American flags, and the movie’s trailer is only available in an embedded grey media player - complete with clunky 1990s controls. gifs for images - in some cases, animated. The words “Captain Marvel” even blink, as though they’re using the infamous tag - introduced in the original Netscape Navigator browser in the mid-1990s - which has long since stopped being supported by major web browsers. When renegade space soldier Carol Danvers falls to earth, she lands in a Blockbuster video - and the site was intended to play up this aspect. Where is Netscape Navigator when you really need it? /P9XwRChfor MovieWeb joked that the site “will have you nostalgic for dial-up,” adding, “The only thing that could have made the Captain Marvel site even better is slow page loading, just to give it a real touch of what it was like surfing the net in the dark ages.” Me to my kids: ‘Kids, kids, come and look at what the internet looked like when I was younger!'”
Last week saw a poignant reminder of how technology confronts the passage of time, when Marvel Entertainment quietly launched a new website for its upcoming movie “Captain Marvel” with an intentionally late 1990s retro design, bringing back some design memories for the geeks of that day.ĭesigner and front-end web developer John Ossoway tweeted, “I love this so much.