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My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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It's a very good website. Fast, simple UX, no JavaScript and focused on content.

Easily beats the performance and accessibility of most of the "professionally developed" web, supported by entire teams.

Naya needs to take over as VP of Engineering at Reddit. The site would actually improve using her approach.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope the “/s” was implied. I thought about making a similar post, in the true spirit of a “Show HN”, but would have included the “/s”.

Same here, but I figured nobody would get the joke. From his downvote count, it looks like I was right.

Even if not, why would it be so bad to give advices to a young girl?

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

#265

Very cute! I did something similar with my dad when I was a kid. First basic HTML then Dreamweaver. A couple years down the road and I’m working at a SaaS company. Beware.

There was something special about being a kid and pushing an update to your site via SFTP on the sidebar in Dreamweaver, then calling or hitting up your friends on AIM/MSN messenger to check it out.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Now this is the real internet. Real people writing about things they're interested in, and not with the intention of turning it into a content farm. Of course at 7 years old we cannot expect a deep, fleshed out site like in the Geocities golden age, but I wish older kids and adults would continue this practice of authoring their own pages, and manually linking them together. CMSes are incredibly limiting by design, e…

Agreed. I think it more has become a race to the bottom in terms of content quality/sameness due to it really being a race to make some level of profit. The whole side Hussle culture, and hyper capitalization of all things is quite prevalent throughout society. So of course it influences us to view things with the lens of "is this worth my time if I can't make $x/hr doing it?"

Also, as a nondeveloper i think there is room for a centralized hub for decentralized geocities-esc websites. Especially with the degradation of google search over the years, and the potential for a race to a deeper bottom than before due to AI generated content

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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post #234

Now this is the real internet. Real people writing about things they're interested in, and not with the intention of turning it into a content farm. Of course at 7 years old we cannot expect a deep, fleshed out site like in the Geocities golden age, but I wish older kids and adults would continue this practice of authoring their own pages, and manually linking them together. CMSes are incredibly limiting by design, e…

See also: Dead internet theory

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Exactly as I would do it if I were a 7yo. Speak what you will about the virtues of CSS and semantic markup, these things get in the way of having fun. And can be learned later.

Back in the day it would have been animals.bmp, drawn on Paint
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