One of the most baffling engineering feats to me is Voyager 1/2 are billions of miles away in space, launched 43 years ago and with 43 year old tech we can still communicate with them. We can’t even keep a HTTP API stable for 3 months without breaking it for frivolous reasons.
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On the plus side, you could probably use a modern browser to access a website built in 1995
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On the negative side, a browser from 10 years ago probably won’t even work.
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Replying to @kellabyte
Fair enough. OTOH, a 10 year old browser would probably be so ridiculously vulnerable that you could only run on a honey trap machine, anyway :)

Jan 29, 2021 · 5:05 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
True. But maybe if you run an old enough browser nobody malicious is targeting it anymore haha.
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Replying to @stilkov @kellabyte
Old browser won’t support TLS 1.2 and the new website won’t support old version of SSL.
Replying to @stilkov @kellabyte
OTOH, a modern browser can display a web page designed 10 years ago but I hear ya on breaking APIs and it’s especially ironic in the age of “versioning all the things”
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