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I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by Tao332 »

DocTomoe wrote: post #16
ashneer wrote: post #3

I really wish I could experience the web back then at 1993 (I'm 25). I imagine much faster, and intuitive websites than nowadays. Beautiful UX is one thing but making a website feels natural, that's what I think the internet is missing today.

Images would load forever. Good websites had images twice, a low-resolution variant to load fast, to be replaced by the high-resolution one that eventually loaded. Other websites had images that loaded interlaced - separated in 4 strata that you could watch being built up. I remember when some supergenius sent the first email as a word document with a 2 mb company logo embedded, and loading that took some 20 minutes…

> Other websites had images that loaded interlaced - separated in 4 strata that you could watch being built up.

That's called progressive JPEG, and it's still around.

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by FpUser »

That is because there are "fucking websites" and "fucking web applications". These two require different skill set. Second one being a programmer.

I do not think it is smart idea to make everything into web app. My daughter for example is Web Designer / Web Master and makes very healthy living designing and building front ends for various businesses. She does not see less need for her skillset over the years. Just the opposite.

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by brightball »

f0e4c2f7 wrote: post #49

His description of what web dev felt like in those early days captures how I feel about VR now. Back then it was obvious to me that was the coolest thing you could possibly learn. Still to me it is outrageously cool that I can think something up and then in not that much time it can be a website. So whats the new magic? To me it's the idea of being able to think something up and conjour it into the virtual world too.

I’m curious if you could elaborate on that some. VR just seems like another type of game design to me, as someone who isn’t active in the space.

Yours is the first perspective I’ve seen that actually made me curious.

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by ransom1538 »

tomhoward wrote: post #20

My 1996 self feels very seen. I think a lot about the way the web was back in the mid 90s, compared to the bleeding-edge technologies of today, particularly blockchain and cryptocurrency. And one major aspect I keep coming back to is that web technologies in the 90s, and even their descendent technologies now, are simple enough for most technology-literate people to understand, and that carried with it a lot of comfo…

Web3 is cryptocurrencies? Are we sure about this? Just because it was on someones blog?

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by desertraven »

nonrandomstring wrote: post #43
scandox wrote: post #9

I know this is kind of negative: but I don't like nostalgia much and I think I like tech-nostalgia least. Don't get me wrong I like old tech, but just for what it is. Text based, simple, fast etc...but I don't like wallowing in a warm, fuzzy feeling about how it was. I mean I personally do recall 5.25" disks. I liked their look and feel as a kid. Fine. But making a big deal out of it feels retrograde...

> I know this is kind of negative: but I don't like nostalgia much and I think I like tech-nostalgia least. It's not negative. It's an interesting sentiment, but one I think is based on a misperception or mischaracterisation, if you'll permit me; Nostalgia is about experience and feelings. It often has idealising elements, attempting to restore something bound to a specific past time or culture that can never actuall…

You write well. Very inspiring.

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by skilled »

I never changed from being a webmaster to being something else. For the last 15 years I still manage my own servers, I still design my own websites, I still do most things myself when it comes to building/managing a website.

And the fact that everything is SaaS now, well, that just gives me motivation to keep it that way.

Easy for me to say, of course, since I grew up back then and was fortunate to have the experience of the pre-modernization of the Internet. Good times.

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

ransom1538 wrote: post #54
tomhoward wrote: post #20

My 1996 self feels very seen. I think a lot about the way the web was back in the mid 90s, compared to the bleeding-edge technologies of today, particularly blockchain and cryptocurrency. And one major aspect I keep coming back to is that web technologies in the 90s, and even their descendent technologies now, are simple enough for most technology-literate people to understand, and that carried with it a lot of comfo…

Web3 is cryptocurrencies? Are we sure about this? Just because it was on someones blog?

What do you believe web3 is?

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

trevormcneal wrote: post #6

I miss those times. I could spend hours complaining about the depressive current state of the web, I imagine being a newcomer to such world and have to handle the over complexity of the current scenario without knowing that things could be simpler. I remember seeing a team member migrating a project from grunt to webpack, the project was just a 404 page. "You need to compile your assets" they say, just a cat *.css >…

I for one have had enough and hopefully, in future projects, I can posit to just write basic HTML / CSS, maybe some JS, and not pull in everything else.

That said, I've been in the Go ecosystem for a while and while the language itself is fine, it's the associated mindset and catchy oneliners that have been more valuable to me as a developer.

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