@nina_kali_nina I always ran xsnow this time of year. I wonder if it still works?

@nina_kali_nina don't know how you would do that nowadays withouth resorting to non-universal stuff

@nina_kali_nina And too heavy. I could see great whopping hailstones being a better fit these days.

@nina_kali_nina I saw a random site keeping the tradition alive but I should have kept the link. Made me think the exact same thing. Also <meta cursor=""/> or whatever I slapped into frontpage back then. Oh! and things that followed your mouse!

The now web is boring.

@nina_kali_nina I added snow fall to my navbar (it’s supposed to now be the whole page but for some reason it’s still just the navbar).

@nina_kali_nina Because of Work reasons, I can tell you that the Uzbekistan Medicines' Authority website has snow dots falling these days.

@nina_kali_nina I just added a thing to a website where you click the fish and it turns pink.

@nina_kali_nina Have you googled "Mariah Carey" recently?

@nina_kali_nina

That was also the day when we all built our own webpages on Geocities, AngelFire, or MySpace.

Then everyone decided pasteurized homogeneous Facebook was the best thing in the world.

@nina_kali_nina I know of at least 1 webapp where I accidentally left the animated snowflakes CSS in and got a bug report about it years later. It was a corporate app and nobody used it on Dec 25 until some customer support was offshored to places where Dec 25 isn't a vacation day. They didn't even recognize it as snow, but they knew something was up. 😆

@nina_kali_nina Fear not, @zachleat is here to help! https://www.zachleat.com/web/snow-fall/

@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt yo get onto Misskey

@nina_kali_nina climate change maybe

@nina_kali_nina aseptic is the word that comes to my mind.

@nina_kali_nina So....
more stuff like this?

https://mitra.raccoonden.moe/objects/0193df2e-82fb-a875-6515-ab736e3b9ab3

@nina_kali_nina I was just thinking about those ASCII clocks that would follow your mouse cursor around.

Seeing eBay listings with that stuff embedded in. Imagine sites letting you inject your own JavaScript in now publicly?

@nina_kali_nina is there a way to add it with a CSS hack?

@nina_kali_nina Remember when snow was depicted as asterisks and periods on your terminal, a snowman as slashes, backslash, and underlines? With a carat nose and char 0 eyes?

Line printer roasting as an open fire... halon frost nipping at your nose. Merry Xterm to you.

@nina_kali_nina https://mullvad.net seem to be keeping up the tradition

@smathermather can I put the snow back on the NextCloud?

@nina_kali_nina Now we have to rely on desktop software for this kind of things. Like VLC and its Santa Claus hat :)

@nina_kali_nina I've still got some 2005-era js file somewhere that you can include to automatically Snow your website.

@nina_kali_nina courtesy of monday.com. not sure why the animation stops but you get the idea...

@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt yes

@nina_kali_nina These days you'd need a high-end GPU to render them and gigabroadband to download the 3D models of each snowflake.

Would keep you warm at least.

@nina_kali_nina the war on Christmas fr