Under Construction

[engine]

Remember the under construction gif. Understandable in the early days, and i've never seen anything under construction for years.
It's a thing: In the last week i've seen a site which has been under construction for the past week.

Why!

[ronin]

Hah.

You couldn't do this on NCSA Mosaic in 1994 though, could you?

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Oh. ;-) Apparently you can't do it everywhere in 2021, either.

[thecoalman]

I can give you preview of the site. The root page will start with "Welcome to...."

[lucy24]

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::detour to text editor with HTML Preview ::

Tee hee.

I suppose there exists a simple and sensible reason why the present site will never go beyond Latin-1, but I have never heard it.

[RhinoFish]

[pat-grady.com...]

[NickMNS]

Describes the state of my current "new" project perfectly

[jmccormac]

I've seen lots of sites "under construction" in the web usage surveys that I run of the gTLDs. What has changed since the early days is that the registrars and hosters now point undeveloped domain names to their own holding page or PPC ads page. There are still lots of "roll your own" U/C pages though.

Regards...jmcc

[lucy24]

. . . and which content is more likely to have people coming back next week to see if anything has changed?

[blend27]

-- Remember the under construction gif --

precisely: ..around 2 am on a snowier night in early January of 1995 coming back from Mount Fuji(Restaurant in Northern NJ), almost pitch black outside while my 4 gear Fiat X1/9 ( [upload.wikimedia.org...] ) gray color is scraping the road and while my 4speed manual shifter clutch is on its last tooth half way down the Curvy Hill...

We finally made it down the hill to the lights all the way down!

and the Officer says:
Didn't you see the sign?
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What Sign?
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That Sign, Yellow, Under Constriction, Work Ahead...? All the way up there behind you....

[buckworks]

Some sites put up Under Construction or similar messages as they scramble to recover from being hacked.

[lucy24]

Sounds like a custom 503 page to me :)

:: detour to check my boilerplate because I honestly can’t remember what I use for the purpose ::

This area is currently closed for repairs, renovation or remodeling. Please check back in a few hours.

If time has gone by and you’re still getting this message, the usual fixes are to refresh the window, empty your browser cache, or restart the browser—in that order.

Et cetera. Can’t remember when I last had to use it, though.

[RedBar]

I know of some sites still under construction after 20+ years! Yes, 20 years

[tangor]

Mine are always under construction, just don't put a sign up in that regard! (since 1996)

[blend27]

-- always --

But do you 503?