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Roanoke.com relics

Old bike page screen shot

Correcting mid-'90s code is bittersweet

Over the past few weeks, Dan Casey's bike column has been revamped to fit the new site's look.

After wading through about 80 pages of now-defunct coding, the worst one is officially this series of journal entries written in 1998.

For you techies, view the source of this page. It is littered with line breaks and font tags.

Thank goodness for Web standards!

Comments

# 1

[June 8, 2006 11:37 AM]

Seth M. Gitner

amanda --

thanks for wading throutgh all of that code and fixing it up.

-seth

# 2

[June 8, 2006 12:45 PM]

Patrick Beeson : →http://www.patrickbeeson.com

No kidding. That was some nasty code!

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