The Story of 1821 Mode

1 · The Guardian · June 22, 2021, 4:44 p.m.
To celebrate the Guardian’s 200th anniversary we turned the theguardian.com network front into its 19th century ancestor. Here’s how we transformed the hack into reality using a selection of tools, some styling and creative thinking.In April we participated in our first Hack Day. It was a chance for new software engineering fellows to get to know each other and make something fun in a no-pressure environment. We settled on the idea of an old-school homepage that paid tribute to the paper’s first...