You bravely browse the world wide web with Netscape 4 on Windows 95? Or Mosaic is your favorite application of all times? Then I have good news for you: this website has you covered!
At A Disadvantage
There has been a hand full of mayor versions of the Hypertext Markup Language – of which HTML5 has been the most recent for more than a decade now. While our every-day tools were made with the current iteration of HTML in mind, years old technology was not: for browser-driven HTML5 web applications and modern media formats, compression or encryption these machines lack the computational power. And that cannot be fixed in software – unless...
All speak ancient
It needs two to communicate. If we cannot teach the old dogs new tricks, let's simply smarten up the young. Specified in the mid 90ies HTML 2.0 brought us key elements which still are around in HTML5 today: tables, forms or drop-downs, for examples. It still can be a vehicle for a modern websites' structured content minus the interactive and fancy pants.