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Web sites Midomi.com still (2020) requires Flash Player for reviewing the submitted audio and playing back previews of results. (Seriously, Midomi?!)

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Safety User after randomly being deleted from GitHub (later reinstated): “I have always treated public [online] services as a handout that could be taken away any moment, without any explanation” (April 2019)

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Browsers Old versions of Opera Browser Mobile (circa 2009) allowed force-squishing a desktop website into the narrow mobile screen. Looks approximately like when opening a website (or saved page) inside LibreOffice Writer and Calc.

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Observation: For mobile optimization, websites founded longer ago tend to rely more on dynamic serving. Websites founded more recently tend to utilize responsive web design CSS. | crosspost from /s/Programming

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NetDisaster (2007) – Visual website destruction simulator

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History On some Wayback captures of YouTube in 2007-2010 (including this one), a user appears to be logged in. (Here as “TMARU1986”, but it is one of many appearing usernames.)

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Browsers “Acid3” browser test

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McAfee SiteAdvisor 2006 “Spam Quiz” (works entirely inside Wayback Machine)

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Differences between conversations on different platform types. | xpost /s/Whatever

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What do you think about “Cake.co”? (Seems like a Twitter+Reddit mixture to me.)

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The Kids' Guide to the Internet (1997)

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Hexadecimal colour #123456 - Comments (at bottom of page)

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Pastebin Made It Harder To Scrape Its Site And Researchers Are Pissed Off.

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Web design Back when many websites had redundant page elements from the top of the page at the bottom (also Google and YouTube search bars).

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