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Because of this rant I had a look at the company behind w3shools. This is their about page:

https://w3schools.sinsixx.com/about/about_refsnes.asp.htm

If you want to communicate "stuck in the 90s", take this as your example! The photo of the "Web Masters", the favicon, the W3C-badges, the gif-badge webhosting ad, fixed-width, the CMS400 ad, the bordered boxes around everything. I had a blast.

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Personally I found that page and photo to be adorable and it improved my overall impression of w3shools from “an acceptable target of ridicule” to “aww, they’re trying their best even if they’re a bit clueless”.

If HN allowed embedded media, you can bet there would be a headpat animation in this comment.

> improved my overall impression of w3shools from “an acceptable target of ridicule” to “aww, they’re trying their best even if they’re a bit clueless”

Funny how that works, huh? Here's a pertinent rule that some^Wall here may^Wshould have seen before:

> Remember the human

https://www.britannica.com/topic/netiquette

Facts. This isn’t the first time I learned my hatred was irrational.

To be fair, that seems to be a copy of the page from more than 10 years ago (note the "Copyright 1999-2009" in the footer). The current website still seems to be run by the same company but looks much more modern.

You are probably right. I just Google'd for "Refnes Data" (the name I found on the w3schools page) and this was the first hit.

I checked again but did not find a more modern site anywhere. Did you?

https://www.w3schools.com/about/default.asp

That's about w3schools (a product) not the company behind it.

Not to defend w3schools but it seems you linked to some very old version of their site. This is the current About page: https://www.w3schools.com/about/default.asp

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