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1998 Washington Post Article Untouched by New HTML

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Re: 1998 Washington Post Article Untouched by New HTML

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OP here. This find was a tiny joy in my day. The article was from 1998 and the page appears to be untouched by all the "upgrades" in HTML. I love this...image maps, light HTML, tables...oh my!

Links to a lot of the older stories on that page work as well, fascinating!

A site search of that archive link unearths SO much time-capsule content - thanks for sharing :D

Re: 1998 Washington Post Article Untouched by New HTML

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This is so cool. Take a look at the navigation bar in the header- it's one image, and one big anchor tag. So how does it know what people click on? An image map! (A server-side image map, not to be confused with the tag)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLImageEl...