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Dole Kemp 96 Web Site(dolekemp96.org)
51 points by DamnInteresting 17 hours ago | 66 comments
  • eschulz17 hours ago

    Here's the page you were looking for: https://www.dolekemp96.org/about/cookies/cookies.html

    • saysjonathan15 hours ago |parent

      As weight and baker's percentage instead of volume:

      227g (94.58%) margarine

      30g (12.5%) sugar, powdered

      240g (100%) flour

      5g (2.1%) vanilla (assuming liquid extract)

      15g (6.25%) water

      200g (83.33%) pecans, pieces

    • actionfromafar17 hours ago |parent

      Now that is a cookie policy I can get behind.

      • cmurf10 hours ago |parent

        Die Eier Von Satan (also 1996)

    • theli0nheart17 hours ago |parent

      Someone please make these.

      • nticompass15 hours ago |parent

        If I don't forget, maybe I'll make them this weekend! I should have all the ingredients already.

        • assimpleaspossi9 hours ago |parent

          And use butter, not margarine. Companies claim their margarine tastes just like butter but butter would never claim to taste just like margarine.

      • SunshineTheCat17 hours ago |parent

        100% and please post pictures too.

        • deskamess16 hours ago |parent

          This makes 50 cookies. I think they are too small (tsp scoop on baking sheet). That's the only mod I would make.

  • 0xdeadbeeb17 hours ago

    Faster than 99% of websites today. 2.18 html, 86Kb total.

    Perfect lighthouse performance: https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-www-dolekemp96-org-...

    • SunshineTheCat17 hours ago |parent

      I'm bookmarking this to send to clients that have WordPress sites with 87 "performance" plugins installed.

  • rgreeko4217 hours ago

    Clinton Gore 96 https://www.livingroomcandidate.org/websites/cg96/

    • scalemaxx17 hours ago |parent

      A rotary phone and blinking modem lights, a nod to the past and then present? Or just blinken lights.

      • netsharc17 hours ago |parent

        Clicking on the modem opens a page with an email or two from Clinton.. and audio files of him talking. RealAudio files, hah!

        I'm old enough to remember "Buffering...".

    • arthurcolle15 hours ago |parent

      I can't seem to play the audio on iOS 26

      Is this a regression?

    • phendrenad217 hours ago |parent

      > Increasing the number of Border Patrol agents along the southwestern border by 50% to stem the flow of illegal aliens into the United States

      If they only knew...

  • threeio15 hours ago

    I used to host at a facility in DC that hosted Pat Robertson's presidential campaign's server.. they had surrounded his server with all of their adult hosting clients as a... show of support.

  • don-code17 hours ago

    Has the site actually been running all this time? I notice that the generator tag says "FrontPage 12" (post-2003), and site has a TLS certificate, which in 1996 it most certainly would not have had.

    • plorg16 hours ago |parent

      The current domain registration also dates to 2003 and as someone lower in the thread notes the current owner is connected to "4president.org".

      I'm having trouble accessing old snapshots, though. The Internet Archive has one as far back as April 1, 2000, but the snapshot viewer has been giving 503 errors all morning.

      • plorg14 hours ago |parent

        I got the snapshot to load and it appears that at that point it was being sat on by scammy domain parkers, complete with promises of scandalous celebrity photos and dick pills.

    • kalleboo3 hours ago |parent

      The bottom of the page says "This Web Site is Presented for Educational Purposes by 4President.org"

  • unicorn_cowboy17 hours ago

    I wish they would simulate the extremely slow load times to make it feel time-period accurate. You were waiting multiple seconds for images to appear before you even had any idea what you were looking at.

    • geoffeg17 hours ago |parent

      If you want to experience this, Firefox and Chrome support throttling network connections, check the "Network" tab of the Developer Tools.

      • actionfromafar17 hours ago |parent

        Hey, Dole is progressive! (GIF)

    • yesitcan9 hours ago |parent

      > You were waiting multiple seconds

      So like SPAs with the JS bundle today?

  • SirFatty17 hours ago

    Which reminds me of Treehouse of Horror VII.

    "The politics of failure have failed. We need to make them work again! Tomorrow, when you are sealed in the voting cubicle, vote for me, Senator Ka... ... Bob Dole!"

    • EvanAnderson17 hours ago |parent

      "It's a two party system. You have to vote for one of us."

      I think about this episode so much. It has lived rent-free in my head for decades. I pronounce Clinton and Dole's names in the Kodos and Kang voices. >sigh<

      • DamnInteresting17 hours ago |parent

        > I think about this episode so much

        Same.

        "Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate."

        "Go ahead, throw your vote away! Hahahahahaha!"

        (Ross Perot punches his hat)

        • DamnInteresting17 hours ago |parent

          See also: "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos"

    • ChrisArchitect17 hours ago |parent

      ..we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

      Classic.

  • scalemaxx17 hours ago

    Wonder how well their motto aged: "More opportunities. Smaller government. Stronger and safer families"

    • dfxm1217 hours ago |parent

      Well, they didn't win, but the economy boomed under Clinton (from the Bush recession through the dotcom bubble) and violent crime plummeted in the same time frame as well.

      • anonym2917 hours ago |parent

        Violent crime plummeted throughout the 90s because abortions was legalized in 1973, 17-27 years before 1990 and 2000, respectively, roughly coinciding with the early adulthood period where a vast majority of criminal offenses are committed, the offender having the freedom of an adult without the fully formed prefrontal cortex of one yet.

        The fetuses that were aborted were overwhelmingly from socioeconomic demographics (e.g. poverty, single mother households) where they would've been statistically far more likely to become criminals, so by allowing that generation to be aborted, we effectively aborted (for the first time) a large chunk of an entire generation of people that would've been statistically overrepresented among criminals, entering their peak criminal years right when Bill Clinton was president.

        • rsynnott16 hours ago |parent

          This is likely a myth; crime dropped all across the developed world in a similar timeframe, but dates of legalisation of abortion likely don't line up. One popular speculation is the phasing out of leaded petrol, but really this one seems to remain a case of "shrug, dunno".

          • tsunamifury13 hours ago |parent

            The world is complex and most phenomenons are high dimensional.

            It’s very likely: - criminal potential populations were reduced - economics lead to stable options for more individuals in the late 90s - lead was removed - a myriad of other improvements in society that generally led to Less crime

        • leviathant16 hours ago |parent

          An assault weapons ban went into effect in 1994, the number of deaths from mass shootings fell, and the increase in the annual number of incidents slowed down. Any guesses as to what trends in firearm related deaths looked like when the ban was allowed to expire in 2004?

        • HWR_1416 hours ago |parent

          Freakanomics made that argument, but there is very little statistical evidence abortions were the cause. For one thing, abortions were legal in states like California and New York, which also saw crime drops.

        • actionfromafar17 hours ago |parent

          That's very bad for the Prison Economy. :-/

          • anonym2917 hours ago |parent

            Don't worry, we tripled incarceration rates between 1980 and 2000, particularly of nonviolent drug offenders, to make up for the difference. This is America, after all, we can't just let the businesses fail!

        • dingnuts16 hours ago |parent

          [dead]

      • tsunamifury17 hours ago |parent

        This broadly attributed to the infrastructure spend of the internet and greenspans new “unlimited productivity in the digital age” realization — which Clinton did agree to, but at the price of the promises he made

      • bediger400017 hours ago |parent

        Beg pardon, but I can't quite make out what your point is. Dole/Kemp lost, but they get credit for the Clinton-era economic boom, which is well known to have been stronger and lasted longer than the more famous Reagan-era boom?

        • hnal94317 hours ago |parent

          I think the point was you can't evaluate their campaign promises because they never governed. Here's what happened instead....

        • dfxm1217 hours ago |parent

          My point was, in response to the OP, to explain to the commenter what had subsequently happened in the context of that motto, pointing out that democrats deliver even what republican strategists think voters want.

          I can't imagine a reading of my comment that suggests I am giving Dole/Kemp credit for any of this though.

  • m_herrlich17 hours ago

    Role Hemp! I miss those days.

  • SunshineTheCat17 hours ago

    Seeing the phrase "Smaller government" in a main tagline is so weird to see. Don't think that's an idea really any politician would even pay lip service to anymore.

    • cosmicgadget16 hours ago |parent

      DOGE?

    • fogzen17 hours ago |parent

      Are you from the US? It’s been a centerpiece of Republican propaganda for 50 years. It’s a total lie though.

      • Eric_WVGG16 hours ago |parent

        It’s not as central to the GOP platform as it used to be, though. Really ever since the “War on Terror,” their messaging has mostly been around whatever the enemy du jour is. Small gov’t was a paleocon thing and McCain, maybe Rand Paul, are pretty much the last of them.

        Bob Dole was the first and last Republican I ever voted for. I still think he was kind of a fun guy, although it’s good that his candidacy failed.

      • SunshineTheCat16 hours ago |parent

        Sounds like you would be served well reading a book or two: https://www.amazon.com/Coolidge-Amity-Shlaes/dp/0061967556

        • fogzen16 hours ago |parent

          It goes further back than 50 years for sure. Was small-government rhetoric embraced by the whole party that far back though? Seems to me it wasn't embraced by the whole party until after Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. I think it really got going after the New Deal as Republicans started framing their opposition to helping the working class in terms of small government and states rights.

  • rwmj17 hours ago

    Someone had to keep renewing that .org registration. Not a lot of money, but also not free.

    • bombcar17 hours ago |parent

      It says it's maintained by "4president.org" at the bottom of the cookie page, at least. But their blog.4president.org goes to a broken Network Solutions page so ... probably unmaintained now?

    • 1970-01-0117 hours ago |parent

      It's also HTTPS, which was the opposite of easy in 1996, so someone added the feature.

  • furyofantares17 hours ago

    Clicking Dole Interactive > Computer leads to some very small "wallpapers"

    • nemomarx17 hours ago |parent

      Maybe intended for tiling?

      • m00017 hours ago |parent

        Tiling was all the rage in '96. Mostly because you were running on 8MB of RAM.

  • Rooster6117 hours ago

    Looks like it's hugged to death

    • 1970-01-0117 hours ago |parent

      Not on my end. Truthfully, this is the fastest, most responsive site I've visited in years.

      • Rooster6117 hours ago |parent

        Hmm, not sure why I can't access it then. Anyone else unable to reach it?

        • eschulz17 hours ago |parent

          no problems right now

  • m00017 hours ago

    Imagine being paid consultant-level fees to build a website with Notepad and MS-Paint. Those were the times...

    • cosmicgadget16 hours ago |parent

      And you could be a kid in high school.

  • johnwheeler17 hours ago

    Wasn't Bob Dole a technology investor? That would make sense.

    • adastra2217 hours ago |parent

      First and foremost a pineapple investor.

  • ChrisArchitect17 hours ago

    > Bill Clinton Wants to Put "Big Brother" in Your Computer

    ahh yes, the "Clipper Chip"