The Web Design Museum
Michaels Fabricare homepage web design.
Michaels Fabricare homepage web design.

Exhibit, launched May 2009

Michael's Fabricare

Dry Cleaning service in Wildwood, New Jersey.

Technology stack used

HTMLCSSPHPCodeIgniterMySQL
See it live in 2009 (opens in a new tab)

The web in 2009

What was the web like back then?

  • Top browser

    IE7

    65% of users were using Internet Explorer

  • Screen size

    1024×768

    on a 15-inch flat screen

  • High-speed internet

    38%

    of US adults didn't have high-speed internet at home

Building for the web in 2009

  • New this year

    Firefox 3.5 brought web fonts and HTML5 video.

  • Still hanging on

    23%

    still used Internet Explorer 6, which was almost eight years old.