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by burnt-resistor 191 days ago
Hehe. In the "someone should make a website"™ department: using a crap tons of legacy protocols and plugins semi-interoperable with modern while offering legacy browsers loaded with legacy plugins something usable to test with, i.e.,

- SSL 2.0-TLS 1.1, HTTP/0.9-HTTP/1.1, ftp, WAIS, gopher, finger, telnet, rwho, TinyFugue MUD, UUCP email, SHOUTcast streaming some public domain radio whatever

- <blink>, <marquee>, <object>, XHTML, SGML

- Java <applet>, Java Web Start

- MSJVM/J++, ActiveX, Silverlight

- Flash, Shockwave (of course), Adobe Air

- (Cosmo) VRML

- Joke ActiveX control or toolbar that turns a Win 9x/NT-XP box into a "real" ProgressBar95. ;)

(Gov't mandated PSA: Run vintage {good,bad}ness with care.)
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giancarlostoro 191 days ago
To be fair, we have Flash emulators that run in modern browsers, and a Shockwave one as well, though it seems to be slowing down a bit in traction. Man, VRML brought me back. Don't forget VBScript!
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lawlessone 191 days ago
why even write webpages or apps anymore just prompt an LLM everytime a user makes a request and write the page to send to the user :D
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giancarlostoro 191 days ago
This... was a Show HN a little while back, can't tell if you're making a joke or referring to that.
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lawlessone 191 days ago
oh god, it was a joke, but i want to see that. i hope they made it as a joke.

edit: I think i found it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783640

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