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How do we know it's from 1995?

> Site designed by the author's granddaughter, who did the work while avoiding the far more weighty assignment of her literature test.

Impressive for 1995, he must've thought her HTML and how to use a computer first

HTML 2.0 came out in 1995

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Heh, that's my daughter - mostly self-taught with just enough misdirection from me to keep her guessing. The essay was from 1995, but was just in a listserv. The webpage was done in the early 2000s.

update: the HTML doctype string is

> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

that's HTML 1.0

XHTML 1.0, the attempt to write HTML in XML. It came out in ~2000 and was a thing for some time while HTML 4 was also around.

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