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Figured it's about time I actually posted on this thing properly, so here's a project of mine from earlier this year that I think y'all will appreciate -
-> http://tiredand.gay/wordle/ <-
It's a Netscape 1.0-compatible implementation of Wordle, complete with the rules page, a high-contrast colorblind mode, and an ASCII-art score system for e-mailing to your friends! It uses the wordlist from the original pre-NYT version of Wordle.
It's all powered by about 600 lines of absolutely atrocious cgi-bin python, of which I am both incredibly proud and deeply ashamed.
I started out developing it for Netscape 4.04, using features like tables and inline styling with the <font> tag, but kept pushing myself to support further and further back. The colored letters eventually got replaced with pre-rendered images, and while the layout tables are still present, Netscape 1.0 doesn't support them, so there are some wonderfully hacky <br> tags inside each row to ensure the correct layout.
I'm particularly fond of the smaller non-technical details to make it period-appropriate:
- The exclamation point after the name, to add a little '90s whimsy
- The use of e-mail as the suggested way to share scores, as well as the deliberate hyphen in 'e-mail' — in my experience 'email' is the preferred spelling nowadays.
- The comment alongside the <meta viewport="..."> tag to lampshade its anachronistic nature.
