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Re:Virtual Apple II – Apple II and Apple IIgs games ready to... by jimmaswell on Saturday February 11, 2017 @08:28PM (#13626034)
>The web is one of the great stories of backwards compatibility

Are you serious? Flash is being dropped eventually, npapi plugins (especially wrt Java) are out, the blink tag is gone, Firefox extensions are being dropped for a worse system, breaking changes to JavaScript, the list goes on.

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Re:Virtual Apple II – Apple II and Apple IIgs games ready to... by brennen on Sunday February 12, 2017 @12:57AM (#13627017)
On the other hand, HTML I wrote by hand in some terrible Windows text editor in 1997 still renders fine. It's kind of a mixed bag.
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