How Paravel rebuilt Microsoft's original 1994 homepage

The year is 1994. CSS has yet to be invented, <font> tags were a thing of the future and browsers ran on steam and coal. It's into this world that Microsoft launched its first homepage.

In the intervening years Microsoft has redesign its homepage many times. Paravel, responsible for the software giant's most recent reworking, also turned its attention to the 1994 relic, hoping to recreate it.

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