Via Matt Yglesias, an entertaining reminder of just how old and out of touch the Senate generally is. The Senate Finance Committee's website contains a notice that the site is "optimized for Netscape Navigator 4.x or Internet Explorer 4.x" - programs that were widely used in the mid-1990s. These days Navigator no longer exists, and IE is on to version 8.
Of course, this kind of technological savvy is to be expected from a committee chaired by Max Baucus (68) and made up of Bill Nelson (67), Chuck Grassley (76), Pat Roberts (73), Jay Rockefeller (73), etc., and where the "young folks" are Robert Menendez (56) and Maria Cantwell (51) - although you'd think that Cantwell, a former tech executive, would start nudging the committee out of what is essentially the buggy-whip era of websites.
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The interwebs is not a dump truck, you know; it's a series of tubes. You can't just dump new things on it--like modern browsers. Navigator and IE V4 are known to be premier tube browsers.
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