Loving the layout (if only it wouldn't scale to the entire window width). Generator meta tag looks credible:

<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.79 (Macintosh; U; PPC) [Netscape]">

Slightly tangential: there's an excellent Norwegian TV series based on the premise of suddenly appearing immigrants from earlier time periods, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beforeigners.

and a south park episode for ones from the future :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobacks

There has been a 50% proof of concept, 50% art project by an Austrian university professor to a similar extent:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIY_Kindle_Scanner

https://vimeo.com/73675285

Mandatory mention of Raquel Meyers' amazing Petscii art:

https://www.raquelmeyers.com/

This has been solved a long while ago, for better or for worse.

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics) or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algospeak

Others have already pointed out that a knob saves a lot of space. And I'm surprised myself how usable a knob is when controlled with a vertical trackpad scroll gesture. Probably still a frustrating control on a touch screen, though.

You beat me to posting this. When this version of the QuickTime player came out, I couldn't understand how Apple of all companies could ship this obviously awkward control.

Edit: Scrolling further down on the article, I get reminded of the weird pop-out drawer at the bottom of the player. I had totally forgotten about it, and it was also a very awkward and un-ergonomic piece of UI.

> What makes mp3 still worth considering?

A lot of people (including myself) won't re-encode their existing music collections into another lossy format to avoid degradation in sound quality.

Also, as much as it sucks these days, a lot of people (including myself) are still in the Apple ecosystem (formerly iTunes, now Music.app). For these people, mp3 seems to be the best compressed format that's compatible with the rest of the world.

You could use the browser's dev tools to emulate a narrower viewport.

It should also be almost trivial to create a browser extension for this, if it doesn't even exist yet.

Oh yes, the memories! [Pun not intended] Mine is 880k. Boy, did I squeeze the last bytes out of that Workbench boot floppy!