Would this work as a "Weird Earl"?

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#1

I found today the BBC news site as it was in 1997 (you don’t want to know how - let’s just say I was looking for info on Dennis Healey!)

It’s frozen in time a couple of days after Mother Theresa and Princess Di died. You can see it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/politics97/

Any good?

#2

Thousands of old sites are available(see Wayback Machine). What makes this one weird?

#3

It’s just very peculiar to look at this stuff fifteen years later. EG about whether Britain should join the Euro (the pro V cons article is worth reading) or to see the hysteria about Diana even as reported by BBC.

I don’t know much about “Weird Earls” tbh as I am just responding to a sticky I saw. If the consensus is, after a few more have weighed in, that this is entirely unsuitable please would someone move this thread to MPSIMS?

#4

You know, that site looks very, very good for 1997. I have seen far worse in 2012 than that thing.

#5

This would be my nomination for Weird Earl’s.