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The Wii settings menu is an HTML webpage. Yes, even 2006 games consoles were not spared the web.

• johannes1234321 6mo ago
  Well, Microsoft pioneered with that earlier. Win98, or was it 95b, merged the filesystem Explorer with Internet Explorer and came up with ActiveDesktop.
  • tomashubelbauer 6mo ago
    Which was very cool and accessible as a kid, I have fond memories of it.
  • HeckFeck 6mo ago
    I remember renaming .html files as .hta and thinking I was a developer.
• HerbManic 6mo ago
  I was kind of ready to call BS on this, Nintendo is usually a little more careful with these things. But, you are absolutely correct.
  • lunar_rover 6mo ago
    Nintendo uses web UI a lot. The Switch eShop is notoriously a web app running on WebKit without JIT. The Action Guide in Super Mario Odyssey is web despite everything else being native.
• msephton 6mo ago
  Wii and DS ran a version of Opera browser.