What You Can Learn From Captain Marvel's Classic '90s Site

Websites nowadays are stunning and modern. Aside from increasing online visibility, a quite charming look of a website, believe it or not, can also boost visitors’ interest in what’s inside that website. Well, if it weren’t for Tim Berners-Lee, a website itself would never exist. Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. The process was not that simple, but by the end of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee had the first Web server and browser up and running at CERN, demonstrating his ideas. Of course, the web design for the very first website ever in the world was simple and plain unlike today’s websites. However, it turns out, despite being in this modern era, one of this I’m-sure-you-know-who entity revisits the classic ’90 web design for their official website – Captain Marvel! Rather than using modern web design in this year of 2019, they chose to use retro style that looks like it was designed around the same time as the infamous Space Jam page. For those of you who haven’t watched Captain Marvel yet, Captain Marvel takes place in the 1990s and the movie ‘takes us back’ to the distant past. When we think about it, it does make sense why the Captain Marvel team chose to go back to the ‘90s web design. However, I’m not only talking about that in this article. I’m talking about what you can learn from their concept. Wait, what? Keep reading this article to find out!

Surprisingly, despite the fact that they are using very old school website design, this doesn’t stop their fans from visiting the website. In fact, it attracts positive vibes and responses from their fans worldwide. If you own a business and thinking about making a website for your business, maybe this can become your inspiration and you can learn from this too. I’m not saying you should also go back to the ‘90s like Captain Marvel team did, I’m just saying that there a few points from Captain Marvel’s actions that you can learn from.

Be bold and courageous to take risks

What they did was actually risky. I mean, using the ‘90s web design in the era where almost everything is digital and modern? However, they were brave to take a step forward and willing to take risks. They were bold and courageous and ready to face challenges in the future – a unique characteristic that not many business owners can possess.

Think outside the box

One of the unique personal traits a business owner should have is the capability of thinking outside the box. I know this is not exactly a personal trait, but if you have good reasoning where you think differently than others, then you have what it takes to be a business owner. In a world full of businesses competing with each other, be unbeatable in your own way and be unique.

Know the fact that humans are curious by nature

For those who have no idea about the old 90s websites, this might be something new to them. Being curious by nature, people tend to see for themselves. Captain Marvel obviously created something different like this with people’s nature in mind. Humans are curious by nature. They want to know more once they see something interesting.

When you learn more about something, sometimes it is not just about how it looks like outside, but it is about the process that is taking in order to reach that ‘outside look’. After all, everything starts from zero. However, you have to start feeling it deeply and learning by doing. That way, you will grasp more important lesson from this.