Only 90s Web Developers Remember This • Hacker News Board

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by agumonkey » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:57 PM UTC

Last week, out of boredom I sent an old website to w3c validator. This was from dreamweaver 4 era, so many inlined styles and dangling elements.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by snorkel » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:57 PM UTC

jayvanguard wrote: post #39

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 used to love the tag. Has anyone invented a better way to break up sections?

Borders and white space. Funny how much of modern clean design aesthetic was already possible to do with basic HTML back in the day but we were too fascinated with blinky flashy colorful tags to ask ourselves "Doesn't this altogether look like neon hell?"

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by ksmsjm » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:57 PM UTC

Counters, undetconstruction images

I remember we had a clientside script that changed ilayers to those weird div tags so you could drag stuff around in both broswers.

But rarely saw anyone use blink tag at all

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by alttab » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:58 PM UTC

pwenzel wrote: post #30

dev360 wrote: post #16

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

Nuh-uh, Allaire Homesite was the true editor!

I used homesite 4 and it made a mess out of design mode too. Mainly i used it for the css editor.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by colmvp » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:58 PM UTC

edu wrote: post #29

Respect.

The future is now!

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by t0mislav » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:59 PM UTC

This is so true, so funny! :D

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by return0 » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:59 PM UTC

ntaso wrote: post #99

molecule wrote: post #10

Related Bootstrap theme: http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/

No colored scrollbars? Or was this past 2000?

Come on, that would ruin the user experience

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by snorkel » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 10:00 PM UTC

delgaudm wrote: post #64

Anyone else remember Webrings? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring

The crazy thing is these same patterns come back under new names and for different reasons. Nowadays you have mobile apps cross-promoting other apps, it's practically the webring all over again, except now it's suddenly a new and bold idea worthy of VC money!

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by leviathan » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 10:00 PM UTC

dkoch wrote: post #40

What about CGI scripts from Matt's Script Archive [1] which amazingly is still alive? [1] http://www.scriptarchive.com/

I was frequenting PerlMonks a lot during the time that Not Matt's Scripts were created: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by sanswork » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 10:00 PM UTC

ghinda wrote: post #32

90s? I was still building "DHTML menus"[1] with IE filters[2] in ~2003. Don't know if proud or ashamed. I used to use an editor called Arachnophilia [3], which surprisingly is still in development. Way better than FrontPage. [1] http://www.effectmaker.com/gallery/jsslidemenu/index.html [2] http://www.effectmaker.com/gallery/jsimageswapmenu/index.htm... [3] http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.php

I was also a big fan of Arachnophilia back in the day. The creator is actually a regular HN user too lutusp.