52 points by DamnInteresting 21 hours ago|65 comments
eschulz 21 hours ago
Here's the page you were looking for: https://www.dolekemp96.org/about/cookies/cookies.html
saysjonathan 19 hours ago
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

actionfromafar 21 hours ago
Now that is a cookie policy I can get behind.
cmurf 14 hours ago
Die Eier Von Satan (also 1996)
theli0nheart 21 hours ago
Someone please make these.
nticompass 18 hours ago
If I don't forget, maybe I'll make them this weekend! I should have all the ingredients already.
assimpleaspossi 13 hours ago
And use butter, not margarine. Companies claim their margarine tastes just like butter but butter would never claim to taste just like margarine.
SunshineTheCat 21 hours ago
100% and please post pictures too.
deskamess 20 hours ago
This makes 50 cookies. I think they are too small (tsp scoop on baking sheet). That's the only mod I would make.
0xdeadbeeb 21 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-...

SunshineTheCat 21 hours ago
I'm bookmarking this to send to clients that have WordPress sites with 87 "performance" plugins installed.
rgreeko42 21 hours ago
scalemaxx 21 hours ago
A rotary phone and blinking modem lights, a nod to the past and then present? Or just blinken lights.
netsharc 21 hours ago
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...".

arthurcolle 19 hours ago
I can't seem to play the audio on iOS 26

Is this a regression?

phendrenad2 21 hours ago
> 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...

threeio 19 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-code 20 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.
plorg 20 hours ago
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.

plorg 18 hours ago
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.
kalleboo 7 hours ago
The bottom of the page says "This Web Site is Presented for Educational Purposes by 4President.org"
unicorn_cowboy 21 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.
geoffeg 21 hours ago
If you want to experience this, Firefox and Chrome support throttling network connections, check the "Network" tab of the Developer Tools.
actionfromafar 21 hours ago
Hey, Dole is progressive! (GIF)
yesitcan 13 hours ago
> You were waiting multiple seconds

So like SPAs with the JS bundle today?

SirFatty 21 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!"

EvanAnderson 21 hours ago
"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<

DamnInteresting 21 hours ago
> 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)

DamnInteresting 20 hours ago
See also: "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos"
ChrisArchitect 21 hours ago
..we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

Classic.

scalemaxx 21 hours ago
Wonder how well their motto aged: "More opportunities. Smaller government. Stronger and safer families"
dfxm12 21 hours ago
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.
anonym29 21 hours ago
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.

rsynnott 20 hours ago
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".
tsunamifury 17 hours ago
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

leviathant 20 hours ago
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_14 20 hours ago
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.
actionfromafar 21 hours ago
That's very bad for the Prison Economy. :-/
anonym29 20 hours ago
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!
tsunamifury 21 hours ago
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
bediger4000 21 hours ago
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?
hnal943 21 hours ago
I think the point was you can't evaluate their campaign promises because they never governed. Here's what happened instead....
dfxm12 21 hours ago
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_herrlich 21 hours ago
Role Hemp! I miss those days.
SunshineTheCat 21 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.
cosmicgadget 20 hours ago
DOGE?
fogzen 20 hours ago
Are you from the US? It’s been a centerpiece of Republican propaganda for 50 years. It’s a total lie though.
Eric_WVGG 20 hours ago
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.

SunshineTheCat 20 hours ago
Sounds like you would be served well reading a book or two: https://www.amazon.com/Coolidge-Amity-Shlaes/dp/0061967556
fogzen 19 hours ago
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.
rwmj 21 hours ago
Someone had to keep renewing that .org registration. Not a lot of money, but also not free.
bombcar 21 hours ago
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?
1970-01-01 21 hours ago
It's also HTTPS, which was the opposite of easy in 1996, so someone added the feature.
furyofantares 21 hours ago
Clicking Dole Interactive > Computer leads to some very small "wallpapers"
nemomarx 21 hours ago
Maybe intended for tiling?
m000 21 hours ago
Tiling was all the rage in '96. Mostly because you were running on 8MB of RAM.
Rooster61 21 hours ago
Looks like it's hugged to death
1970-01-01 21 hours ago
Not on my end. Truthfully, this is the fastest, most responsive site I've visited in years.
Rooster61 21 hours ago
Hmm, not sure why I can't access it then. Anyone else unable to reach it?
eschulz 21 hours ago
no problems right now
m000 21 hours ago
Imagine being paid consultant-level fees to build a website with Notepad and MS-Paint. Those were the times...
cosmicgadget 20 hours ago
And you could be a kid in high school.
johnwheeler 21 hours ago
Wasn't Bob Dole a technology investor? That would make sense.
adastra22 21 hours ago
First and foremost a pineapple investor.
ChrisArchitect 21 hours ago
> Bill Clinton Wants to Put "Big Brother" in Your Computer

ahh yes, the "Clipper Chip"