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🆕 blog! “Using date-based CSS to make old web pages *look* old”

How do you know you're looking at an old website? You may have found a page which has lots of interesting information, but how can you tell it's a modern and relevant result? Some websites don't contain dates in their URls. There may not be a © date or publication date shown on the page. […]

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Terence Eden’s Blog · Using date-based CSS to make old web pages *look* old
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Alaric Snell-Pym

@Edent that's a fun idea, but I cannot condone that CSS hackery 🤣Much nicer to make the server put out differing CSS based on antiquity, if it can put today's date in it should be able to do that! Plenty of software is unable, though, I'm sure...