MCMXCII

Browse like it's 1992!

MCMXCII is a trivial Firefox extension that disables style; thus, the web appears much like it did in 1992 when Les Horribles Cernettes made their debut as the web's first voyées:

Back in 1992, after their show at the CERN Hardronic Festival, my colleague Tim Berners-Lee asked me for a few scanned photos of “the CERN girls” to publish them on some sort of information system he had just invented, called the “World Wide Web. . . .” How was I to know that I was passing an historical milestone, as the one above was the first picture ever to be clicked on in a web browser!

Arc90's Readability, Ben Orenstein's very plain and Jesse Ruderman's Zap inspired MCMXCII.

The naked web

It's endlessly fascinating to see the struts of the web, i.e. those Easter-eggs that appear after the tyranny of { display: none } has been deposed:

Google's struts

Ever wonder how Maps works? Take a look with your MCMXCII goggles.

Installation

The current release is version 0.1.2.

Source

See the repository.

IRC

Someone's usually lurking at #mcmxcii on Freenode.

Peter Danenberg <pcd at wikitex dot org>