Show HN: My Personal Website from 1998
jasonkester.com
jasonkester.com
No surprise, since it was written in Cold Fusion and built to run on Internet Explorer 4 and Netscape Navigator 3, and thus relied heavily on document.all and such. So I fished most of it out of the wayback machine and taught it about document.getElementById() and some other things. I thought it might be fun to have a look back at what passed for cutting edge back in the day.
Surprisingly, many of the demos ran faster on a Pentium 1 running IE4 than they do today in Chrome or Firefox on the fastest machine you can buy.
I'll stick around to answer questions, though sadly I lost the source for the real-time networked version of the Joust game, so I won't be able to take anybody on head to head.
If anything, it's worse in this respect. Back then you had two wildly divergent browsers you had to switch for, with their own way of doing pretty much everything. Now, while you only need switches for a handful of things, you need to support 20 combinations of browser/platform/input device. And every new way they try to standardize anything just adds another dimension you need to multiply by. (See mouse/touch/pointer events for an example) (or Audio vs WebAudio support across 11 iOS versions for another).
That's the gig we signed up for, though. I don't expect it to be any different in another 20 years.
I was way guilty of that on my first site circa '96