Website longevity
When you browse the web for information on film cameras, you’ll occasionally – or even regularly – stumble upon websites that look very dated. One example I recently came across was a site that offers scans of film camera manuals in PDF format: the “Camera Manual Library”.
The sub-heading states “1997 – 2018”. And it definitely looks like being from the former of those two years: It makes use of table layouts, <font>- and <marquee>-tags, old-school animated GIFs, <body> bgcolor- and link-attributes and much more. A proper blast from the web’s childhood past.
But you know what? It still works today. Twenty or so years after it was originally created. It gets the job done without any fancy new tech. And without the need for anyone to update its markup and design over the years. That’s pretty remarkable, if you ask me! Good luck using your apps in just a few years.
You gotta love the web for stuff like this!