The official website of Charles Atlas

Without re-igniting the "should you use tables for layout" debate, this is a great look at masterful use of tables for layout. It also reminds me how much we used to use images as part of a great website. Been a long time since I've seen map and areas used for nav bars! It manages to be both glorious and terrible at the same time. It's probably just nostalgia warping my memories, but man I miss the early web.

Reading Marvel Comics in the 1990s, Charles Atlas was still just enough part of American culture that parodies appeared of its classic advertisement about a bully at the beach &quot;Hey, quit kicking that sand in our faces!&quot;[0]. I recall &quot;Hey, quit kicking our faces!&quot; and &quot;Hey, quit kicking Sandman in our faces!&quot; Long shot, but if any HN readers have an encyclopedic Marvel Comics knowledge and could find those two parodies, I’d be grateful.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pinterest.com&#x2F;pin&#x2F;406168460114811471&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pinterest.com&#x2F;pin&#x2F;406168460114811471&#x2F;</a>

It’s quite impressive how the muscularity standard for men has increased over time.

Great one. This is what it still was like to surf the net with an iPhone around 2010.

Dynamic tension is a great form of exercise. And Charles Atlas was a legend.

This prompted me to check whether the other website of this nature was still around. And it is! <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.llapgoch.org.uk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.llapgoch.org.uk&#x2F;</a>

Where&#x27;s the classic &quot;sand kicking&quot; ad?