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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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Post by neocron »

rchaud wrote: 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…

Whats wrong with using a CMS? A lot of them offer html content elements if you wish to express yourself more freely

I don't miss the days of framesets and including the header, footer and menu over and over again

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

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Post by nonrandomstring »

volkadav wrote: post #158

it's good to see a little person having fun with all this technocrap that us grognards have gotten so bitter about over the years/decades. :) i hope she continues to have a blast! (from the dedication page in SICP:) “I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and t…

Nice quote. Lost it now but I used to have a desktop wallpaper with the old Kraftwerk cover with "ITS MORE FUN TO COMPUTE". We need regular reminders. FWIW my little one is mastering the command line after a year of having to type to get things. Even if she turns out not into computers I won't grieve because if nothing else she learned to type, which is a useful skill itself.

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Post by erksa »

johannes1234321 wrote: post #251
marvstazar wrote: post #221

I suggest you back up the HTML files as a record of her work when she was still a child, it will be a family treasure in the future :) You can even add it under your family's domain for safekeeping.

I would love having a backup of my websites from ~1995. But maybe my memories are more exciting than the plain truth.

One of mine was caught by the wayback-machine, unfortunately before I ever got to add any of the menu or content functionality.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040207221902/http://home.no.net...

I started when I was 9, using Word as the editor. This was 5 years later and I was 14 at the time), I both wish and am ok with the content no longer being there. At least I can go back humor myself on what I put in the side-navigation.

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

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Post by ketzo »

HaZeust wrote: post #248
volkadav wrote: post #158

it's good to see a little person having fun with all this technocrap that us grognards have gotten so bitter about over the years/decades. :) i hope she continues to have a blast! (from the dedication page in SICP:) “I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and t…

Kind of reminds me of the quote from the Steve Jobs movie: "The most efficient animal on the planet is a condor. The most inefficient animals on the planet are humans. But a human with a bicycle becomes the most efficient animal. And the right computer -- a friendly, easy computer that isn’t an eyesore but rather sits on your desk with the beauty of a tensor lamp -- the right computer will be a bicycle for the mind.…

I’ve never seen the full quote, and I really love that last sentence.

Reminds me of Ratatouille: “Anyone can cook.”

We make software so that someone else can do something new with it that we ourselves never imagined.

So important to remember that someone could be… anyone!

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

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Post by skgough »

nathell wrote: post #29

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.

I agree with you, but for shits and giggles, to modify this to be evangelist compliant, you could write this instead:
Which isn't much more complicated, and makes it clearer what's going on. I wonder if there is a transpiler like Elm that could take a single file written in a simplified language and gave you an HTML5 compliant webpage? You could argue that all the XML-but-not-actually-XML crap in HTML (angle brackets, closing tags, escaping special characters with HTML entities...) is also an impediment to beginners.

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

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Post by orwin »

cowsaymoo wrote: post #87
isoprophlex wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this code review of HTML written by a 7 year old too hackernews, or just hackernews enough? Who can tell!

When the Trump assassination attempt happened last week and every single post on here was still about computers that's when I realized this place is different

I wouldn't mind reading about it here in like 2 weeks to a month tbh, but clearly I don't come here to read 'worldly news'.
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