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I once wrote a web front-end for a DOS-era web application that was used at over 2,000 locations by hundreds of thousands of people. It was virtually identical to the original layout and functionality, but it had basic-yet-functional HTML look to it. Think Google search.

On the 1st of April it would instead switch to a "DOS skin" using the fixedsys font and the original colour theme and box-drawing character layout. Virtually identical to the original, except that some things were centred and you could scroll with a mouse.

I thought it was hilarious.

Management... not so much.




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