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Looking back

Posted on November 15, 2005.

I was searching around today and I came across this old page from Microsoft. It's part of a gallery of web pages designed by Microsoft to showcase CSS… all the way back in 1997.

Things like this are very interesting to me, since I wasn't even using the web in 1997, and I only started using CSS this year. The page is hilarious now… just look at the source to see. It's from the days of tables and bad markup. The best part, though, is the footer which says "TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CSS BY DOWNLOADING MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER 3.0." Funny stuff! This page definitely indicates how successful Microsoft could have been if they had stuck with developing IE.

I also came across this page. It was published in August 1996! Probably the first web page supporting CSS. There should be an online museum of pages like these.

1 Comments

1. Daz on November 17, 2005

   I love that old Microsoft page. Despite being laughable code-wise, I am, dare I say, quite impressed with some of the effects achieved..

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