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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 SkipperCat »

Back in the early 2000's, I taught "computers" to a bunch of kids in DC. I first started off with how a computer work; IO, CPU, storage and their eyes glazed over.

I quickly ditched that topic and went right to building a web page. Taught them a few HTML tags and they instantly became "webmasters". They were so thrilled. They could create blinking text, could make all the fonts pink. All just by moving around some simple text in NotePad.

Most importantly, they were creating things that they thought were only able to be created by "scientists". I loved how it boosted their own self worth.

I've stopped teaching a long time ago. Not sure if there's still tools out there where a 13 year old kid with no technical experience can immediately get gratification with something so simple on a computer. Maybe it is a time gone by.

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by growt »

Back around 1996 or so, I made my first webpage. I didn't have Internet at that time :) So I build this site, complete with articles about comics, animated gifs, frames etc. just for myself. I think I never put it online. Later when I finally got access to the internet and some webspace I already build another thing and webspace was precious (I got around 1-2mb if I remember right).

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by luispauloml »

dgb23 wrote: post #31
surrTurr wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s also is-even[1]. It has one dependency: is-odd [1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even

This has to be a joke right?

That's what it looks like. This is one of the dependents on `is-odd`: https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-104 https://github.com/acappato/is-104/blob/main/index.js

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by Semiapies »

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?

You could as usefully rephrase that as:

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

It's an empty marketing phrase that some people have latched onto.

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by eimrine »

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…

> Why is Hacker News so anti-crypto?

I have missed the discussion you have mentioned. But I remember 10 years ago HN was opposite to anti-crypto. And the anticryptoness of nowadays for me seems like stupid ppl who don't understand some basic principles and downvote me if attempting to criticize their misunderstanding.

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by corobo »

It amazes me when I look back on my web career. My first website was hosted on an IP address - I'd literally tell people to visit h t t p : / / eight one dot ... - because I'd not come across DNS or how to use domains yet, never mind afford one when I figured them out

I distinctly remember I could never seem to manage to make a website fast. It was always quick (total load time fast (20 years later I can throw together anycast DNS, geo-routing, web/SQL cluster, in/out MX services, memcached cluster, load balancer, whatever you need. No bother.

I'm glad that first site gave me so much grief!

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by christophilus »

pizza234 wrote: post #23
mrblampo wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you imagine how fast those websites would be today, though, compared to modern websites?

One can easily test this. This is the performance of two semi-randomly picked websites: - Peter Ferrie's homepage ( http://pferrie.epizy.com/?i=1 ), old school: approx. 900ms - Netflix landing page ( https://www.netflix.com/de-en ), modern: approx. 1.8s Measured via Firefox "load time". Peter Ferrie is a famous security researcher. The Netlix page is clearly 2x as slow, but the load time is far from proportional to t…

Netflix is a bad example of modern websites, as they’ve hired really good developers to optimize the snot out of it.

I’d say, compare it to Reddit or Pinterest or something like that.

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by nxmnxm99 »

eimrine wrote: post #76
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…

> Why is Hacker News so anti-crypto? I have missed the discussion you have mentioned. But I remember 10 years ago HN was opposite to anti-crypto. And the anticryptoness of nowadays for me seems like stupid ppl who don't understand some basic principles and downvote me if attempting to criticize their misunderstanding.

You lost your thread and descended into irony quite quickly there.

Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

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Post by boopmaster »

snot-nosed 90s kids? I resemble that remark!

I do feel like HN still gives off better vibes from the better days when the netizens had netiquette, when the information superhighway beckoned to the explorer, before the undying flame wars…

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