Show HN: New retro portal website in HTML 3.2 with loads of content including HN (home.goto95.com)

6 points by GOTO95 3y ago ↗ HN

So I was bored and made a retro late 90s style portal website in HTML 3.2. Works with old browsers starting from Netscape Navigator 1.1 (but also has TLS and a tiny bit of CSS for modern browsers).

Basically I tried to answer the question "What now?" after you get your late 90s retrocomputer up and running. Where's the fun in games anyway?

This thread in HTML 3.2: https://home.goto95.com/hn/item/36148940

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compressedgas 3y ago ↗

But where to find a browser that actually implemented HTML 3.2? I thought most of them skipped over to HTML 4.

GOTO95 3y ago ↗

Back in the 90s browsers didn't implement standards, it was the other way around and standards were written based on what browsers already did. So HTML 3.2 was basically "what Netscape does" and even hints that way in the document...

I still wanted to write against a standard so I chose 3.2 which is basically Netscape 1.1 and up (1.1 lacks some color attributes, Netscape 2.0+ implements full HTML 3.2).