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Branded Dot-Com Portals
Caption
Heavy 3D beveled buttons, drop shadows, and metallic web headers on venture-funded homepages.
Historical Impact
Dot-com portals and corporate homepages wrapped content in pressable chrome — metallic header bars, glossy pill buttons, and navigation that mimicked physical control panels. Yahoo!, startup landing pages, and enterprise sites used these trust signals to project legitimacy during the bubble era.