Wow, dynamic drive. I thought that was like the coolest site on the planet when I was a kid.
Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
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Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#122Holman was one of the first authors that did humor and tech together (at least that I can remember) and he completely changed what I thought a good tech article should be. He was/is a great engineer, but he’s an even better communicator.
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#123Other stuff I did was frames, because I didn't know how to do stuff on a server. So one frame for the menu and one for the header, things that should be equal on all pages.
Using lots of b-tags to create rounded borders. Or lots of images.
Faux columns to make it seem like different parts of the layout had the same size.
The golden layout or what it was called. Maybe a bit later than the 90s, when tables weren't as hip to use anymore.
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#124My first software dev job was in the 90's writing PHP for a mom and pop ISP that was trying to get into app development. It was originally supposed to be Perl, the job interview was something like: Me: demos CRUD app for keeping track of my record collection, hosted on a free site Owner: You wrote this? Me: Yeah. Owner: This is in Perl? Me: Yeah. So I got hired. The day I got there, he told me they were going to use…
I wish interviews were like this. Show them something you built and you get hired instead of the nonsense of leetcode.
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#126Ah, yes. I remember when PHP was still called PHP3, and that was also the file type suffix.
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#127My first software dev job was in the 90's writing PHP for a mom and pop ISP that was trying to get into app development. It was originally supposed to be Perl, the job interview was something like: Me: demos CRUD app for keeping track of my record collection, hosted on a free site Owner: You wrote this? Me: Yeah. Owner: This is in Perl? Me: Yeah. So I got hired. The day I got there, he told me they were going to use…
I hear you - the 90s were insane. In the space of six months I went from a factory worker (12 hour shifts, all night-shift, 7 days a week) to a computer lab assistant to a entry-level software developer.
First day on dev job, the owner displays a hodgepodge of Perl code that was originally an open-source thing called MRTG (before network admins heavily modified it), tasked me with porting it from Solaris to Windows NT and using MSVC 5.0 to build the CGI binaries.
Good times were had by all due to the boom money floating around everywhere[1].
[1] Well, until the bust came in late 90s :-)
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#128My first software dev job was in the 90's writing PHP for a mom and pop ISP that was trying to get into app development. It was originally supposed to be Perl, the job interview was something like: Me: demos CRUD app for keeping track of my record collection, hosted on a free site Owner: You wrote this? Me: Yeah. Owner: This is in Perl? Me: Yeah. So I got hired. The day I got there, he told me they were going to use…
I wish interviews were like this. Show them something you built and you get hired instead of the nonsense of leetcode.
My story upthread is pretty much the same, except that I demonstrated a record-keeping application written in Turbo Pascal :-)
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#129Wow. That took me back. All those things, every day. And table layouts of course. And let's not forget slicing images, and slapping those into tables too. If I remember rightly, Photoshop had an "export to slices" thing built in. Amazing. Loved it. And of course one of the biggest issues with today's web: you can't just view source and copy paste. You're in the land of chasing back up CSS files, js libraries, or find…
Thanks to this post and internet archive's wayback machine I just had a trip back to the end of the 90s to some of the web pages I wrote these days for a local PR agency. I was surprised to see that they still render reasonably well on my smart phone. Nice dose of nostalgia
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#130And websites made with Macromedia Flash...