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Re:PizzaHut still serves its first homepage by cromulent on Saturday April 18, 2015 @10:29AM (#9399548)
The Space Jam movie website is still up from 1996, and it still has working links.

http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

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Re:PizzaHut still serves its first homepage by ddoolin on Saturday April 18, 2015 @10:43AM (#9399597)
Wow, I knew this was there but hadn't opened the console before. Quite the throwback. <center>? <nobr>? <font>?! Neat.

I'd never seen a <map> tag either: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...

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Re:PizzaHut still serves its first homepage by CiaranMcNulty on Saturday April 18, 2015 @10:50AM (#9399627)
You kids... I was the king of <MAP> back in the day
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Re:PizzaHut still serves its first homepage by JshWright on Saturday April 18, 2015 @12:16PM (#9399944)
Oh man... I'm having flashbacks to how badly that tag got abused...

Who needs HTML? Just create the layout in photoshop, export the whole thing to a flat image, and map all the links...

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Re:PizzaHut still serves its first homepage by yuhong on Saturday April 18, 2015 @04:01PM (#9400800)
At least it is not as bad as the older server side image maps.
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Re:PizzaHut still serves its first homepage by Retra on Saturday April 18, 2015 @04:05PM (#9400821)
I bet blind people would love that!
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Re:PizzaHut still serves its first homepage by balls187 on Saturday April 18, 2015 @11:08AM (#9399684)
And I was your trusted adviser.

Hand selecting x,y points was all the rage in the mid 90's.

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Re:PizzaHut still serves its first homepage by TazeTSchnitzel on Saturday April 18, 2015 @11:01AM (#9399656)
Even today <map> is useful and good at what it does for, say, interactive maps. Which is why it hasn't been removed.
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Re:PizzaHut still serves its first homepage by ddoolin on Saturday April 18, 2015 @11:12AM (#9399701)
Yeah. I was pleasantly surprised to open the MDN doc page and not see a deprecation notice.
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Re:PizzaHut still serves its first homepage by 7sigma on Saturday April 18, 2015 @11:55AM (#9399846)
some of the comments made me chuckle:

<!-- Badda Bing, Badda Boom --> <!-- Technology, Shmechnology. --> <!-- Congress shall make no law, etc., etc. --> <!-- The Sitemap, for those unable to figure out the site. --> <!-- Go ahead and jump. Might as well jump. -->

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Re:PizzaHut still serves its first homepage by catshirt on Saturday April 18, 2015 @02:07PM (#9400410)
damn, i am getting old.

for better or worse i'd say there was a whole year i made websites using nothing but the map tag.

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Re:PizzaHut still serves its first homepage by 27182818284 on Saturday April 18, 2015 @06:08PM (#9401268)
>I'd never seen a <map> tag either:

It is always a good idea to learn about old technologies. Probably the most eloquent reasoning why came from Feynman's "Know how to solve every problem that has been solved."

With the exception of the startup I did, I would characterize most of my experience as a developer in life as working with legacy code. It gets a bad reputation, but at the same time I now have a lot of insight.

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Re:PizzaHut still serves its first homepage by drawnalong on Saturday April 18, 2015 @06:19PM (#9401302)
Jeff Bridges makes extensive use of <map> in his webpage. I am unsure if this is apocryphal, but I'm told he makes the whole site himself.

jeffbridges.com

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Re:PizzaHut still serves its first homepage by steveklabnik on Saturday April 18, 2015 @02:52PM (#9400581)
There's a twitter account to let us know if it ever goes away: https://twitter.com/spacejamcheck
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Re:PizzaHut still serves its first homepage by alexbecker on Saturday April 18, 2015 @01:11PM (#9400142)
From the "browser icons" page:

> Unfortunately, this only works on a Macintosh running Netscape

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Re:PizzaHut still serves its first homepage by tek-cyb-org on Saturday April 18, 2015 @10:41AM (#9399586)
Lol that space jam website still actually looks good.
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Re:PizzaHut still serves its first homepage by malkia on Saturday April 18, 2015 @05:12PM (#9401067)
It's from the internet "80's" :)
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