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Not often I give props to the BBC, but impressive how they've managed to keep that page/article working for so long. Even most of the links on the page still ta
by benbristow 4y ago
Not often I give props to the BBC, but impressive how they've managed to keep that page/article working for so long. Even most of the links on the page still take you to somewhere relevant and the search box still works.
Surprised they haven't bothered to try and migrate the old articles to their newer systems though!
- londons_explore 4y agoI guess it's still running on the original server... the page took about 30 seconds to load for me!
- endorphine 4y agoIt took less than 1sec for me, on mobile w/ 4G.
- dmw_ng 4y agoThe genius is exactly that they haven't bothered. Can you imagine the flow of layout bugs over the past 20 years, or the managers calling to scrap old content because it's generating so much workload? That's very much a successful case of avoiding needless technology
- benbristow 4y agoServing up unsecure HTTP pages isn't ideal though.
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- no_identd 4y agoOh boy do I got news for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwcl17Q0bpk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwcl17Q0bpk
- benbristow 4y agoWasn't really thinking of the NSA/government agencies. Of course they'll be able to do dodgy stuff. Was more thinking about public WiFi networks and bad actors!
- mgdlbp 4y agoCNN still has its very first pages from 1995 http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/timeline/ http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/timeline/ Its site design in the early 2000s was much like the BBC's http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/11/email.hoaxes/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/11/email.hoaxes/in... Past headlines remain relentlessly interesting... https://web.archive.org/web/20000815060311/http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/ https://web.archive.org/web/20000815060311/http://www.cnn.co...
- robocat 4y agoSEO? I suspect keeping old pages as-they-were helps with search ranking of the site.