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Comment by tambourine_man | Hacker News Reader

Someone forgot to test the site on a larger than 1600px screen.

    background: url(whitenote.jpg) #fffffa;
    background-repeat: repeat-y;

For the fix

Comment from the website source code:

    // sometimes when the user reloads the document Netscape 3.01 does not trigger the onLoad event

Netscape 3.01 was released in 1996

The JavaScript code is also commented out, in case the browser doesn't know what JavaScript is.

Yeah, iframe aside, I actually like layout from those days.

Skeuomorphic spiral notebook was all the rage

Pretty sure this is a Windows chm file exported as html