I feel like I found some forgotten page on the MasterCard website

https://www.mastercard.com/findacard/credit/credit_info.html

@eloy "copyright 1994 to 126" well i guess it's at least 26 years old then

@eloy @thermia the © 1994-126 at the end fucking Sent Us

@tris @eloy or it's supposed to be subtraction and it's from 1868

@tris @eloy a rare Y2K bug in the wild in 2026

@eloy i like how there are at least 3 different subsystems that each outbound link goes to. this was the one part of the site whose implementation wasn't a total clusterfuck

@tris @eloy JavaScript returning 126 for new Date().getYear() is certainly a choice

@eloy Wow. HTML 4.0 Transitional.

@eloy the Y2K-bug is a nice touch!

@eloy this one’s also pretty good: https://www.mastercard.com/general/zero_liability.html

@eloy i wouldn’t be surprised if it’s somehow load-bearing if they haven’t taken it down at this point

@eloy oh that's a gem of a find, well done

@eloy oh god i figured out how to find them all. the floodgates have opened https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amastercard.com+%221994-126%22

@eloy Is this from the WayBack Machine? This is nuts! 1994

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The 126 thing is telling.

@eloy of course 94+(years since 1994) is going to work for five years, and we’ll certainly rewrite the page if not delete it entirely well before then

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I am studying the ancient texts to unlock their secrets

@eloy and it's so easy to read and loads so fast! I miss old websites, they were so much better.

@eloy ~2005 by the looks of it?

https://www.mastercard.com/findacard/credit/images/ph_credit_info_bottom.gif
(image of MasterCard with expiration date listed as "12/05")

@vt52 first version in the Wayback Machine is 2001

https://web.archive.org/web/20010703105852/http://mastercard.com/findacard/credit/credit_info.html

@eloy so what do we think?

- existence forgotten to the depths of time
- unremovable due to indecipherable permissions
- lost admin password
- inscrutably loadbearing URL

@vt52 @eloy credit cards are usually issued with an expiration date in the future, so a 2005 expiration date would suggest 2000-2001 issue.