This looks so much like https://dns.he.net/ that it seems to me it can’t be a coincidence. Is this a case of copying a well known design or is there more to it?

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cbg0 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The "portal" layout style was very popular on Web 1.0, reminds me of PHP-Nuke.

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makmanalp 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

omg, invoking php-nuke brings me back. fun era (recent php2shell wild ride notwithstanding). Honestly it's more like web 1.5 - not straight up hand written html but no wild client side stuff either.

And yes, there absolutely was a "look" that's a product of the technology of the time - tables for design, limited styling / js support, php "components" that you could load and replace as part of your portal, and "themes".

	▲	baq an hour ago \| parent [-]
		and it's so fast. clicks respond instantaneously even though the whole page has to be fetched and re-rendered. we lost so much with SPAs and js everywhere. htmx will save us!

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brnt 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> PHP-Nuke

There's a name I haven't heard in a while!

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jstanley 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Doesn't look that similar to me, they both just look a bit old.

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garaetjjte 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's possible they are both descendants from XName: https://web.archive.org/web/20120625081138/http://source.xna...

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srik 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I wouldn't think much of it. It was a popular design trend for a while there; some just never updated. I don't blame them, it's fairly decent on readability and minimalism.