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> Here's a live example of a 1995 website: http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n1/ http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n1/ Almost 30 years have passed and this website still works

by M4v3R 4y ago

> Here's a live example of a 1995 website: http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n1/ http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n1/ Almost 30 years have passed and this website still works and renders perfectly in modern browsers! Will we be able to say the same about current websites 20 years from now?

cypress66 4y ago
I would asume yes? Is there any html/css/js feature that you think would be either deleted or changed in a breaking way? Maybe some browser specific features but only very few websites use those.
- M4v3R 4y ago
  Many websites nowadays use various APIs, external services, assets from CDNs (Google Fonts, JS delivery CDNs, Firebase, etc.) that might get turned off or break compatibility in a decade or two, breaking the whole thing.
- dotancohen 4y ago
  Some major companies can't even make a website that works in _today's_ browsers. Just visit my local Nespresso site in Firefox and click any link to another page: https://www.nespresso.com/il/he/ https://www.nespresso.com/il/he/
  - emsixteen 4y ago
    Works for me, but I get your point.
    - dotancohen 4y ago
      You didn't get the browser popup asking if you to confirm that you want to leave? Were you on Firefox? Maybe you were redirected to another national site.
UweSchmidt 4y ago
Looks good (or is it just nostalgia?): - familiar font on grey background is quite readable - blue underlined link tell you what to click on - link turning violet to indicate you've visited it already? Genius!
- sph 4y ago
  No need for a dark and light mode if you default to a mid grey background. Early browsers were onto something.
tragomaskhalos 4y ago
The first websites I remember - this would have been around '93 I think - were the Smithsonian one that showed gemstones, and the original IMDB that was still then hosted at the University of Cardiff in Wales. Isn't it funny how these early sites managed to be completely functional and useful in their plain and unpretentious way without pulling down gigabytes of cruft designed primarily to make it look like you aren't looking at a website. Given the choice between the 2022 and 1993 presentations of IMDB, I'd take the earlier one in a heartbeat.
TrackerFF 4y ago
As an counter example - Last year I dug up my old PC from around 2000, which had not been booted up since 2006 or so. I think I had 512 megs of ram on than one. Fired up opera, which still had cached websites in the tabs - most of them long gone. Funny to see 2006-era Facebook in the flesh. Tried to fire up a some news websites, and ended up with BSOD rather quickly. Chewed right through the paltry memory. edit: I guess it is possible to browse some modern websites by disabling javascript, media downloads, and what not. But it's probably going to be a limited experience as far as functionality goes.
- anthk 4y ago
  68k.news will work on that Opera :)
dwd 4y ago
The early websites were RWD out of the box. I personally think it could be getting better (at least in the realm of Government websites) The UK Gov Design System for example: https://design-system.service.gov.uk/ https://design-system.service.gov.uk/ Clean, accessible and functional first.

by M4v3R 4y ago

cypress66 4y ago

I would asume yes? Is there any html/css/js feature that you think would be either deleted or changed in a breaking way? Maybe some browser specific features but only very few websites use those.

M4v3R 4y ago
Many websites nowadays use various APIs, external services, assets from CDNs (Google Fonts, JS delivery CDNs, Firebase, etc.) that might get turned off or break compatibility in a decade or two, breaking the whole thing.
dotancohen 4y ago
Some major companies can't even make a website that works in _today's_ browsers. Just visit my local Nespresso site in Firefox and click any link to another page: https://www.nespresso.com/il/he/ https://www.nespresso.com/il/he/
- emsixteen 4y ago
  Works for me, but I get your point.
  - dotancohen 4y ago
    You didn't get the browser popup asking if you to confirm that you want to leave? Were you on Firefox? Maybe you were redirected to another national site.

UweSchmidt 4y ago

Looks good (or is it just nostalgia?): - familiar font on grey background is quite readable - blue underlined link tell you what to click on - link turning violet to indicate you've visited it already? Genius!

sph 4y ago
No need for a dark and light mode if you default to a mid grey background. Early browsers were onto something.

tragomaskhalos 4y ago

The first websites I remember - this would have been around '93 I think - were the Smithsonian one that showed gemstones, and the original IMDB that was still then hosted at the University of Cardiff in Wales. Isn't it funny how these early sites managed to be completely functional and useful in their plain and unpretentious way without pulling down gigabytes of cruft designed primarily to make it look like you aren't looking at a website. Given the choice between the 2022 and 1993 presentations of IMDB, I'd take the earlier one in a heartbeat.

TrackerFF 4y ago

As an counter example - Last year I dug up my old PC from around 2000, which had not been booted up since 2006 or so. I think I had 512 megs of ram on than one. Fired up opera, which still had cached websites in the tabs - most of them long gone. Funny to see 2006-era Facebook in the flesh. Tried to fire up a some news websites, and ended up with BSOD rather quickly. Chewed right through the paltry memory. edit: I guess it is possible to browse some modern websites by disabling javascript, media downloads, and what not. But it's probably going to be a limited experience as far as functionality goes.

anthk 4y ago
68k.news will work on that Opera :)

dwd 4y ago

The early websites were RWD out of the box. I personally think it could be getting better (at least in the realm of Government websites) The UK Gov Design System for example: https://design-system.service.gov.uk/ https://design-system.service.gov.uk/ Clean, accessible and functional first.