I'm making a 2001 Windows XP home page

Yep

 

???

 

https://windowsxpforever.neocities.org/

 

you made this page? Im guessing you just downloaded a old page from waybackmachime and made one

 

if you made it then why do all the links go to wayback machine

 

Page not found!!

 

Page not found lol

 

Make sure that you disable https so that IE6 can load it!

 

Ok

 

Website still not loading..

 

When you say a "2001" Windows XP home page, do you mean a page that is optimized for web browsers from 2001 (such as IE6, which believe it or not was the best one out at the time)? I have very little experience with making web pages, but my general rule of thumb is that ideally a page should be able to function properly on at least IE5 (not that I'd advise ANYONE to use IE5 for anything in 2018, but if a page works with IE5 chances are it will work [and work fast] on virtually any browser released in the last twenty years).

 

Yeah

 

You're a fellow after my own heart! I wish more people had your mentality when it comes to making web pages...everyone focuses too much now on style and not enough on substance. A lot of sites today are bogged down with all kinds of useless & unhelpful garbage. Tons of widgets, heavy Java/JavaScript (no thanks--my computer isn't a coffee fan), Silverlight, HTML-5, etc. People today laugh at the older Geocities-era websites for being dated by today's standards. That 'dated' standard should be the standard now.

No matter what browser I'm using, I should be able to go to any site and have assurance that it will at least partially work. Thanks to the push to normalize HTML-5 on the Internet, older browsers have gradually started to become more and more obsolete. Sites that a long time ago worked with no issues on classic browsers like IE5/IE6 now look like they went through a Cuisinart when you load them up today. That should have never happened. Sadly, many companies now do not have the courtesy to maintain fall-back versions of their main sites that will work on older browsers. There was nothing wrong with keeping it simple. Old does not = bad.

 

Cool