First of all DHTML stood for "Dynamic HTML" not "Distributed HTML", and it's not true that "To this day [space gif] is the only way to vertically center elements."
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#152I miss guestbooks. No context, no social media BS, just "say hi or something." I think the first server-side script I ever wrote was possibly the worst guestbook ever in perl on Tripod. And webrings. Oh god webrings ...
Tripod let you run perl scripts?
It was pretty limited, but yes.
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#153> 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 scree…
I am so, so, so sad that Yahoo! shut down Geocities, because they took with them the Pokemon fan website that I made when I was just learning this whole 'HTML' thing for the first time.
I even remember the exact full URL of the website[0]. But between the demise of Geocities and the demise of my 386's hard drive, that piece of nostalgia is gone forever.
I remember dedicating a page to all of the different "strategies" to catch Mew in Gen I games, before we all collectively decided that this was impossible to do without a Gameshark[1]. Little did we know that there was a technique - it just wouldn't be discovered until ~2003[2]]!
[0] For those just tuning in this century, Geocities would provide webspace (that's a word I haven't used in a while!) and your homepage would be a URL of the format http://www.geocities.com/Foo/Bar/1234
[1] "When I was your age, Action Replay was a Gameshark..."
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#154few more to add:
Flash installation detection by using a flash redirect to a flash only site.
IE vs Netscape detection.
Disable right-click > view source to prevent others from stealing your l33t code.
pop-up ads on top of hundreds of other pop-up ads
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#155Ahh the good old days. Lot of great times building and deploying new anime and game fan sites every other day, with text file FAQs, MIDI music, and plenty of Metool under construction GIFs. The Web truly sucks for kids today.
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#156Please move this discussion to the alt.www.webmaster newsgroup.
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#157We '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.
I was in my late 20's in that era. The riches were had by a small few. Most often one ended up with worthless stock options.
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#158Don't forget the use of FRAMES - frames separated the elite from the average. Even better were websites that let you choose the "frames version" or the "non-frames version"
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#159In 90s Japan, mojibake (wrong encoding detection) was still a problem that was commonly seen, and UTF-8 wasn't widespread yet. So people put some character at the top of a HTML file to force detection in a certain way.
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#160Don't forget the use of FRAMES - frames separated the elite from the average. Even better were websites that let you choose the "frames version" or the "non-frames version"
I remember one time I discovered I could frame another chat site's chatroom in my own site and build my own form and have it work without any of their ads or whatnot.
You couldn't get away with that now though. Actually they didn't let me get away with it for long.