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OP here. This is a follow-up to my original essay: "This is a web page." https://justinjackson.ca/words.html
Your page is a great read and they are as well, so thanks, had fun driving down history lane remembering all the various shenanigans MS went through to shove their browser down our throats.
If we are speaking of memories of the "old-ways" of developing websites I remind mostly one thing - rounded corners. I remember how many web devs were trying to make a table (3x3) and put content in the center cell, and fill corners with some gifs. Nevertheless, it was not the only one method which some webmasters were using - a hacky VML file [1]
>And when you publish your own HTML to a server that you control; that's fucking powerful. Autonomy and independence are central to the web. We can't forget that. >The world still needs some fucking webmasters. We might not all be making websites professionally anymore. But we should keep making websites. The passion, the freedom, the joy: we need to pass this on. I appreciate the enthusiasm for wanting to empower pe…
The convenience does not come at zero cost, though. This is putting power in too few hands. A few people decide how the web looks like, what is possible and what is not.
Facebook is now the new Internet Explorer, an unavoidable entity that dictates what the web experience is like.
OP here. This is a follow-up to my original essay: "This is a web page." https://justinjackson.ca/words.html
His name should link to his homepage or about page, of which he has no links to from the article. These pages are IMHO a million times more interesting than the frankly awful mess Twitter has made of profile homepages. What with the big fonts on some tweets - I don't know why some tweets have large fonts. A good interface would instantly make it clear why.
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Hahaha. A few other folks have mentioned that too. Updated! Have you seen http://tomstrucking.net yet? ;)
awesome. by your twitter photo, you were either pretty young in the 90s, that's an old photo, or your friends are running a longevity startup.
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Disagree. For emphasis on the power of being a "webmaster" AND to capture what that meant in the cultural vernacular of various pipsqueaks who claimed that title when it was a thing, you could do little better than a qualifier like "fucking" or "motherfucking" or "goddamn". You could for instance, write this with a theme embodied like, "I am webmaster, hear me roar" or "webmaster of my domain or something", but I thi…
It doesn't read that way to me, it just reads as an adjective to make the article more "shocking" and illustrate the role of a webmaster to appear more against the grain of our little IT/startup world. I think the rest of the essay does a great job of explaining why and how webmasters were so important and how they were/are the ultimate problem solver. No ego boosting qualifiers necessary.