Microsoft's homepage circa 1994

I cannot navigate the site at all (unless I use the text menu), I always get:<p><i>Your current User-Agent string appears to be from an automated process, if this is incorrect, please click this link:United States English Microsoft Homepage</i><p>when I click on the disk. I don&#x27;t feel like a robot though.

gopher.microsoft.com. Excellent.<p>There&#x27;s also a readme.html with notes on reconstructing this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;discover&#x2F;1994&#x2F;readme.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;discover&#x2F;1994&#x2F;readme.html</a>

Those variable names... `var varSegmentation=0;`

And in 1998: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19981205060735&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;microsoft.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19981205060735&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;microsoft.c...</a>

Internet Explorer was still a year away. Did they add a &quot;Best Viewed with Internet Explorer&quot; button later?

... and the associated readme with some background info:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;discover&#x2F;1994&#x2F;readme.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;discover&#x2F;1994&#x2F;readme.html</a>

Darn, I was hoping to peruse the old HTML to see how they positioned the links in a fun little table structure. Just a big GIF. Or maybe this was the real deal and they used a Image Map (since removed).

The Microsoft games circa 1997 was partially online too. Web Design Nostaligia in full effect.