A page made of several pages in windows that scrolled independently, none of which could be bookmarked. Killed when the standards body simply declined to mention them again.
The record gives 1996 for the birth, which is correct, but it did not reach my school until about a year later, and it arrived through a single kid with an older brother. Everything did.
Born 1996, dead 2008, 12 yrs in all. The interesting thing about Frames is not that it died but that it died completely — no ironic afterlife, no revival, no merch. That is rarer than it sounds.
For the record — a university's clearing hotline hold message, seen 19 February. Frames in the body text, twice, once misspelt. The second use is the more interesting one.
I tried to explain Frames to my father in 1999. He asked, sincerely, what it was for. I explained. He then explained it, with my explanation attached, to his entire address book. That is how these things actually spread.
For the record — a council recycling leaflet, seen 26 June. Frames appearing as a menu option. Someone in a meeting proposed this and nobody stopped them.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
