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Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by pvnick » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:24 PM UTC

> HTML For Dummies doesn't cover the tag until chapter four?

Ah yes, HTML For Dummies. For me, the book that started it all. Reading that book during my elementary school Pokemon craze led me to create my first serious website from scratch, Mew's Hidden Lair [1]. Except back then it was Dummies 101: HTML [2]. And I do remember how magical it was to type in that command and see an image of Pikachu show up on my screen.

Reading the article and writing this post has been a serious trip down memory lane. Great, now I'm nostalgic. Back to work I guess...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20010518071345/http://www.fortun...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Dummies-101-Html-Computer-Tech/dp/0764...

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by smokinjoe » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:24 PM UTC

No mention of "Made with Notepad" badge images?

...or the thousands of other badges that I, for whatever reason had to shoehorn into my website?

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by neovive » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:26 PM UTC

Sometimes I long for the simplicity of the 1x1 transparent gif. Combined with tables for layout, it really brought the notion of "design" to the web and helped transform the web to mass medium.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by larrik » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:27 PM UTC

david927 wrote: post #3

Oh God, I remember . And the tag. And I remember I made a Java applet that consumed so many resources that everyone who visited my page thought their machine had locked up. Good times.

I remember when I realized the tag supported a color attribute...it was like pulling Excalibur out of the stone.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by quink » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:27 PM UTC

aethr wrote: post #5

I thought DHTML was "dynamic" HTML, as made popular by the Dynamic Duo: http://grox.net/doc/web/javascript/dynduo/

  ns4 = (document.layers)? true:false
  ie4 = (document.all)? true:false

  if (ns4||ie4) document.writeln('')
  else alert("You must have Netscape 4.0 or Internet Explorer 4.0\nto view the examples in this site.")

I remember using layers. I was in primary school at the time.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by dev360 » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:28 PM UTC

Screw Frontpage, it littered your markup when you went into design mode. Hotdog Pro or Coffee Cup Editor was where it was at!

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by jimhart3000 » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:28 PM UTC

tfigueroa wrote: post #4

We were still using these techniques a few years ago for emails. :(

A few years ago?! We're still using a lot of that for emails now!

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by bnr » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:29 PM UTC

I remember colored scrollbars in IE: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ms531155%28v=vs.8...

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by OhHeyItsE » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:29 PM UTC

Pretty sure the "D" in DHTML stood for "dynamic"

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by smacktoward » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:30 PM UTC

aethr wrote: post #5

I thought DHTML was "dynamic" HTML, as made popular by the Dynamic Duo: http://grox.net/doc/web/javascript/dynduo/

You are correct, it was, as my dog-eared copy of O'Reilly's doorstop on the subject (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565924949.do) can attest.

Hey, there's another one for the list: only '90s web developers know what it's like to have to learn new technologies by going to Barnes & Noble and buying a book about them.