Remember when VRML was going to be the next big thing and we were all going to be moving through 3d websites?
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
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#113We 're kind of lucky to have lived through the internet/web's adolescence. I mean, how often can one live through the birth of a groundbreaking technology? For me, it was Jon Udell's column on Byte that first got me interested in web technologies. Great guy. P.S. Am I the only one who wrote all my html in lowercase? (and always used ' instead of " (one keypress less)?)
A part of me wished I was in my late 20's in that era, not a 12 year old kid. Oh the riches to be had.
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#114No mention of the dancing baby?
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#115I used Dreamweaver and hosted in AngelFire, and later on Hypermart. Optimized for Altavista. Signed up for link exchanges. "Submitted" my site to the 1000 search engines. Good ole days.
Back in the days when SEO meant keyword spam the shit out of Altavista.
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#116We weren't web developers back then, we were web masters
Funny. The term is still in use; I think it's usually meant to imply a deeper level of ownership, a la sysadmin. A few times a year people contact me saying they need a webmaster, and the way they describe their needs, I wouldn't say that "developer" really covers it.
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#117I 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.
Really? I learned about NCSA httpd from the online documentation at hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu and talking to one of the authors. Granted, I was at UIUC at the time, and knew some of the Mosaic developers as well. ;)
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#118Remember when VRML was going to be the next big thing and we were all going to be moving through 3d websites?
It was gonna be just like in Neuromancer. Cyberspace.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uh, are you me? My HTML book was a different one, but I definitely had the pokemon[1] thing. All in elementary school. Who knew it would end up being my career? [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070515090557/http://www.maxpag...
http://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Own-Page---Kids/dp/084317459... 1998. Hell, I think I still have this book laying around somewhere. I got it at a book fair in elementary school and from then on out I was always making one stupid webpage or another. Until I discovered Java of course.
I feel old now.. in 1998, I was 24 and had been working as a web developer for a couple of years. I'd moved on from any thoughts of Netscape server-side dev, and was doing VBScript and JScript in classic ASP. JS was my favorite language back then, though dealing with MS COM collections was a pain.
I remember using the 1x1 graphic a lot, combined with complex tables, and even other stuff. Of course, even before CSS, you could do a lot and at first I really didn't get the point of CSS... I think that IE6, not IE4 was the first good browser. Yeah, it was despised a half a decade later, but at the time it was the best available. IMHO the Netscape 4.0.x-4.2.x was probably the most horrible ever in terms of bugginess and imho solely responsible for IE's dominance.
What we have today, even without the likes of jQuery is SO much better than the mid-late 90's.
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#120All so true.
I still have my copy of "HTML: The Definitive Guide" [0].
I thought I was hot stuff when I figured out how to pre-cache images by making invisible references to them on my landing page.
I really enjoyed trying to make things look good and appear fast in the dial-up era.