Something they missed, which was a feature i found notable when I first used NeXTSTEP, was that all text was selectable, <i>even in dialog boxes</i>; useful for copying and pasting messages, etc. But here in this web app, they seem to have gone out of their way to make all text <i>non</i>-selectable.
As mentioned below, this is a webpage styled to look like the WorldWideWeb app, rather than it running in emulation. If you decide to try the latter (Previous is a good way to do it) you’ll find that in recent years servers have stopped responding to WorldWideWeb at all, which is kind of sad. TLS is of course a no-go, but even on plaintext HTTP many servers these days will immediately respond with a 400 and drop the connection if they don’t like what they see. Just a couple years ago I could point WorldWideWeb at my personal website and it would render it mostly coherently, but at some point GitHub Pages decided to stop serving those requests because they don’t have an HTTP version number. I guess it’s just a casualty in the march towards newer web standards as people forget the existence of older browsers.
All of the window title bars and the menu title bar are utterly wrong in design and format. What's going on with that? That's not at all how WWW.app looked. Why would this page intentionally change them?
This image appears when clicking on the last white circle on the bottom of the page: <a href="https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/images/wow.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/images/wow.jpg</a><p>I am not familiar with the history of the web, maybe someone can comment about who is the person in the image.
Ah good memories--NeXTSTEP looks so clean. I always liked how the keyboard shortcuts merely show a lowercase (for Ctrl+letter) or uppercase letter (for Ctrl+Shift+letter).
Discussed at the time: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19249373" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19249373</a>
What's this? Some sort of 98.css[0] type thing that mimics an oldskool browser's UI? Because the site is vague on what the UI elements are supposed to be for.<p>[0] h<a href="https://jdan.github.io/98.css/" rel="nofollow">https://jdan.github.io/98.css/</a>