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"Fun fact: I believe Berkshire Hathaway's website is a frontpage site from back in the day."

Sillier than that even. From https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/subs/sublinks.html

<meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document">

<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15">

Some other pages on the site:

<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Adobe PageMill 2.0 Win">

<meta NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Microsoft FrontPage 3.0">

Seems like they tried all the cool WYSIWYG tools.




I don't know why but I love looking at the historical "crudge" that builds up in situations like this! Especially from people that don't specialize in software.


I enjoying finding crud I created myself still running out there. Even some true fork a process cgi-bin remains :)


I have never had a look at their website, so thanks for posting that. Buffet's recommendations for GEICO and Borsheim's [0] are funny and not something I would have expected from him...

[0] https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/message.html




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