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Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by joshvm »

snorkel wrote: post #102
jayvanguard wrote: post #39

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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?"

We had to design websites in high school, circa 7-8 years ago. Pretty sure if anyone had implemented a flat desing they would have been given a D for poor effort.

It's all about that terrible blue button in Dreamweaver that animated concentric circles when you hovered over it..

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Post by snorkel »

sanswork wrote: post #111

Remember when VRML was going to be the next big thing and we were all going to be moving through 3d websites?

I worked on a VRML retail store that had 3D products on 3D shelves and 3D customer service reps you could chat with. It was just like shopping in a real world retail store, except you're tripping on LSD flying uncontrollably upside down through a bright colored world of blocks and pyramids while wearing binoculars until you punch a hole in the sky and your browser crashes. The world just wasn't ready to shop in 3D.

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Post by pjmlp »

tracker1 wrote: post #119
aspensmonster wrote: post #73

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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, y…

Same here, I was 22 and finishing my CS degree with lots of experience on side projects and ready to jump into the golden .COM days.

Still after all these years, the scars earned in web development projects, make me jump of joy when I get to do native desktop stuff instead.

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Post by HillRat »

tracker1 wrote: post #119
aspensmonster wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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, y…

God, I started out with Perl-based CGI, NetObjects Fusion, and ATG Dynamo's early JSP implementation, back when being able to afford a SQL backend meant you were hot stuff. Kids today have it so easy. We had to code ISAPI filters, during packet storms, for bidirectional communication! And don't get me started on what we had to do when the bit buckets ran out of ones....

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Post by dalke »

return0 wrote: post #94

We '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)?)

Radio? Television? Film? Airplanes? Jet airplanes? Diesel locomotives? Skyscrapers? Indoor plumbing? Electricity? Municipal water and treated sewage? Cars instead of horses? The transistor? Telephone? Genome sequencing? Orbital satellites? Transoceanic cables? Fax machine? Camera? TNT? The Haber process for ammonia production? The Hall–Héroult process for aluminum production? Penicillin? The polio vaccine?

Actually, name a generation over the last few centuries which hasn't seen the birth of a dozen groundbreaking technologies.

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