Microsoft recreated 1994 website
Succumbing to the feeling of nostalgia, Microsoft employees picked up a copy of the 1994 first corporate website .
In 1994 there were only a few thousand sites on the Internet. HTML was considered a technical novelty, and the very concept of publishing information on the web was unusual. Virtually no one understood HTML and there were no tools for web development. Many browsers did not support the display of images.
That year, Microsoft opened a website on the Internet, which for those times should look very futuristic: the sunrise on a gray background surrounded by stars and links to reference subsections.
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Until 1994, Microsoft communicated with users on the CompuServe forums, one of the largest dialup providers of the time.
The project was restored to mark the 20th anniversary of the presence of Microsoft online. The developers admit that restoring the original appearance of the site was not easy. I had to dig in the archives to find those web pages and perl-scripts with which the site was updated twice a day.
“Microsoft.com was one of the first corporate sites in the world, designed with responsive, modern design, which means adaptation and proper display on any device,” said Chris Balt, Microsoft product manager and one of the authors of the first version of the site. in 1994 (two people worked on its creation).
For 20 years, the design of the main page of Microsoft.com has changed 17 times.
In 1994 there were only a few thousand sites on the Internet. HTML was considered a technical novelty, and the very concept of publishing information on the web was unusual. Virtually no one understood HTML and there were no tools for web development. Many browsers did not support the display of images.
That year, Microsoft opened a website on the Internet, which for those times should look very futuristic: the sunrise on a gray background surrounded by stars and links to reference subsections.
')
Until 1994, Microsoft communicated with users on the CompuServe forums, one of the largest dialup providers of the time.
The project was restored to mark the 20th anniversary of the presence of Microsoft online. The developers admit that restoring the original appearance of the site was not easy. I had to dig in the archives to find those web pages and perl-scripts with which the site was updated twice a day.
“Microsoft.com was one of the first corporate sites in the world, designed with responsive, modern design, which means adaptation and proper display on any device,” said Chris Balt, Microsoft product manager and one of the authors of the first version of the site. in 1994 (two people worked on its creation).
For 20 years, the design of the main page of Microsoft.com has changed 17 times.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/232687/
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