> Then in April 1995, right after the devastating bombing at a federal building in Oklahoma City, the Unabomber attacked again, perhaps peeved that another bomber was making headlines. A package bomb killed a timber industry lobbyist in Sacramento. Days later, Unabomber threatened to blow up a plane out of Los Angeles; and then he promised to stop the bombings if The New York Times and Washington Post published his 35,000-word, anti-technology, anti-modern-civilization diatribe.<p>This guy must be really disappointed to see what the world has became.<p><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/year.in.review/topten/unabomb/unabomb.index.html" rel="nofollow">http://edition.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/year.in.review/topten/una...</a>
Heh, I recently came across a "guestbook" [0] that I set up ~20 years ago. I doubt that new posts work but it's still there all these years later.<p>HTML was so much simpler back then.<p>[0]: <a href="http://qsl.net/n9wwv/gbook/guestbook.html" rel="nofollow">http://qsl.net/n9wwv/gbook/guestbook.html</a>
Contrast the load times between those 1996 pages from the current site. Keep in mind there is probably no advertising spyware in the 96 site and it may account for most of the HTTP requests on the current site.
>Stay up to date with the text-only version of our website <a href="https://lite.cnn.io" rel="nofollow">https://lite.cnn.io</a><p><a href="https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/906655818950553600" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/906655818950553600</a> (10 Sep 2017)<p>HN discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15210022" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15210022</a>
Funny that TV graphics or magazine design in '94 weren't bad, but web design graphics were terrible.<p>It seems like the web could have been beautiful back then, especially with flat design and whitespace techniques.
It is interesting how pages like these are like a time capsule. For instance, I was just watching the movie Philadelphia yesterday and how many of the misconceptions/prejudices around AIDS were prevalent then. And here, in this link, there is news about some advances made there.
This 'Year in review' page doesn't look much like the actual CNN news pages looked:<p><a href="http://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150102183958-01-cnn-homepage-1995-super-169.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150102183958-01-cnn-ho...</a><p>This is from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/02/world/gallery/cnn-homepage-through-the-years/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/02/world/gallery/cnn-homepage-thr...</a> which gives a better idea of how the front page evolved over time.
The image map on the very bottom doesn't appear to work, at least not on Chrome for Android.<p>CNN appears to never take anything down, here's CNN's coverage of the OJ Simpson trial from 1999 - <a href="http://www.cnn.com/US/OJ/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/US/OJ/</a>
I clicked on “Games” at the bottom of the page and all I got was [this lousy webmap file](<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/year.in.review/serverside.map?520,41" rel="nofollow">http://edition.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/year.in.review/serverside...</a>).
Huh. Actually, it looks like they cleaned up a bit recently. As of a few weeks ago, there were far more skeletons in place (as literally scoured from robots.txt).<p>Snapshot from their antiquated ad spaces listing- <a href="https://pp19dd.com/2013/02/attack-of-test3-from-outer-space/#specimen_1" rel="nofollow">https://pp19dd.com/2013/02/attack-of-test3-from-outer-space/...</a>