One of my favorite throwback sites that's still up is https://www.kfc.com/. 2006 isn't that old, but it's still hilarious.
The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
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#162Motocross Madness 2 is also still up: http://www.microsoft.com/games/motocross2/ And this list wouldn't be complete without Midtown Madness (1?) http://www.microsoft.com/games/midtown/ [edit] I'm sure you can find a bunch of others by browsing through the wayback machine ( http://web.archive.org/web/19980214201021/http://microsoft.c... ), like http://www.microsoft.com/games/outwars/
Jesus, that brought back some memories - Motocross Madness LAN matches FTW
The first reason I ever set up a VPN connection was to play MCM with randos across the internet. The first version only supported multiplayer over LAN, so you had to configure a PPTP client and find a "server" to join that had others who were similarly interested in playing. This happened for other games, too (THPS2 for the PC was a big one for me), but I remember being blown away by how many people were essentially hacking around the LAN restriction.
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#163The System Requirements brought back memories: * Multimedia PC with a Pentium 133 or higher processor * Microsoft® Windows® 95 operating system or Windows NT® Workstation operating system version 4.0 with Service Pack 3 * 16 MB of RAM; 32MB recommended * 30 MB of available hard-disk space; 110 MB recommended * Quad-speed CD-ROM drive; 6x recommended * Super VGA, 16-bit color monitor * Microsoft Mouse or compatible po…
A 28.8Kbps Internet Connection used to be considered fast! Optional: 28.8 or higher baud modem for head-to-head play For LAN play a local area network supporting either TCP/IP or IPX protocols is required Internet access required for internet play; connect time charges may apply Microphone for instantaneous voice communication during head-to-head play Graphics accelerator card compatible with the Microsoft Direct3D®…
In a way, that modem might still be considered good: the head-to-head play meant that one player had their modem dial the other player's modem, so the link that was established was a direct 28.8k symmetric connection with no IP routers in between. As long as you weren't going long-distance, you would have sufficient bandwidth and latency that was good, not great, but very consistent because the PSTN cares about that in a way that ISPs don't.
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#164Re: The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
#165Wow am I a code nerd or what. Just viewed source and was excited and overwhelmed with nostalgia. Look at all those 's!
Post more old site links! Actually that would be a fun thread to create...
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, more specifically table-based design. It Just Works (tm).
In some places, table-based designs are apparently still hip, and I come across few for localization. Gives me huge facepalm dealing with them...
Sometimes these are the result of hours of facepalming as well. And in IE7 that's just the way you do it (no display:table or table-cell supported)
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#167But... there's an add in the top bar for "Links 2001"! Surely this dates the page beyond 1998?
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#168Lol, the whole website is inside a tag.
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty sure a .doc file created fifteen years ago also still renders in Word. Same for a PDF file created 15 years ago or most other formats. So I don't really see your point about open standards in this case.
PDF was not an open standard until 2008. Just saying. It could have been abandoned by Acrobat/Adobe while it was still proprietary and you would have been left with unreadable files in 2013. That's not the first time these things happen either. HTML is way more solid in that aspect: as long as you have a browser you should be able to open the document on any browser, any platform and get a very similar access to cont…
It was not an open standard, but it was nonetheless rigorously documented. If you wanted to modify a PDF (as I did in 2006) it was fairly simple to create an editor in the language of your choice, using only those documents as a guide.
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#170Really a shame it didn't have an Under Construction[1] gif.
[1] http://www.animatedgif.net/underconstruction/caution1_e0.gif
