I suspect this is true for a lot of software; a modern-day JVM can still run Java from 20 years ago as long as you didn't do anything weird, Linux hasn't signif

I suspect this is true for a lot of software; a modern-day JVM can still run Java from 20 years ago as long as you didn't do anything weird, Linux hasn't significantly changed since then, the web is one of the most widely supported and standardized platform out there with the 1996 Space Jam website still working and rendering today as it was back then (your screen just got bigger). Is software rot real? I'm sure, but it's not in the runtime. It's likely in the availability and compatibility of dependencies, and mainly the Node ecosystem.