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Berkshire Hathaway has my favorite website (or, WEB page, as they style it) of any big company: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ https://www.berkshirehathaway
by semiquaver 8mo ago
Berkshire Hathaway has my favorite website (or, WEB page, as they style it) of any big company: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
- staticshock 8mo agohere's another good one: https://terraformindustries.com/ https://terraformindustries.com/
- buildbot 8mo agoI wonder how much Geico payed for that add placement…
- anana_ 8mo agoThey own GEICO...
- buildbot 8mo agoOh; well that’s embarrassing haha
- conorcleary 8mo agoNah, you can bet there's a tax break in there somewhere
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- ewild 8mo agohe owns geico
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- meindnoch 8mo ago<meta name="GENERATOR" content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18828"> *Jurassic Park taking off glasses.gif*
- tharkun__ 8mo agoI mean, what did you expect? Copyright © 1978-2025 Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
- dudefeliciano 8mo agodid Warren Buffet code this himself?
- nurettin 8mo agoYes, he used punch cards and a System 360.
- leapingdog 8mo ago<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> This brings back some (unpleasant) memories. But otherwise I admire the minimalism.
- enmyj 8mo agoit's certainly fast!!
- chickensong 8mo agoIncredibly clear and direct. Amazing to see a big company like that keeping it so old school. Thanks for pointing it out!
- pseudohadamard 8mo agoAnd it looks the same with and without Javascript enabled. Unlike 99% of all web sites which are anything from shite through to blank pages without JS.
- scottious 8mo agoI half expected to see an "under construction" gif and a "powered by GeoCities" tag at the bottom
- forinti 8mo agoIt's definitely missing a website hits counter.
- burnt-resistor 8mo agoI want the blinking fuchsia marque in H1 italic Comic Sans on a yellow starry night animated GIF background.
- 1659447091 8mo agowith embedded MIDI sound effects and looping background music
- ethbr1 8mo agoClick next for the next site in our webring!
- burnt-resistor 8mo agogeocities and netcom personal pages.
- 1659447091 8mo agoSign my guestbook!
- burnt-resistor 8mo agoMade with Notepad, best viewed with Netscape, and W3C HTML 3 valid.
- JTbane 8mo agoMy god, static text with no graphics!? In 2026!?
- tim333 8mo agoThey have a long tradition of keeping it simple going back long before the web. The annual reports had no pictures or puffery unlike most companies, though much better writing.
- DANmode 8mo agoExcept geicoimg.gif, lol I almost want to let Warren know he could have an entire extra egg McMuffin per year if he switches to SVG rendering of the Geico logo on the site.
- webdevver 8mo ago8.3 naming scheme too
- weichi 8mo ago"If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can write us at the address shown above. However, due to the limited number of personnel in our corporate office, we are unable to provide a direct response."
- meyum33 8mo agoMy first visit to the Berkshire Hathaway website a few years ago literally changed my life. I was immediately attracted. I went to search Buffett and went down the rabbit hole of shareholder meetings clips and value investing and index investing. I am so much richer mentally and financially now thanks to the random visit to this website.
- xnx 8mo ago99/100 Lighthouse performance score. Good reminder that every web page starts off fast by default and is only made slow by designers and frameworks.
- interactivecode 8mo agoCorrection designers and frameworks don’t build websites the engineers do