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Sometimes I long for the simplicity of the 1x1 transparent gif. Combined with tables for layout, it really brought the notion of "design" to the web and helped transform the web to mass medium.
Tables + 1x1.gif don't really seem much simpler than CSS with flexible boxes.
Respect.
Damn... I remember learning about yahoo.com for the first time at a Barnes & Nobles when I was actually looking for books about the WWW haha. Two other guys in the same aisle were exchanging bookmarks in person. Anybody else remember writing links down on paper?
I 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.
Part of me wants to build a bonfire and toss it on. The other part of me goes, "But that's a book. A completely useless except as a curiosity for historians book, but still a book."
I thought DHTML was "dynamic" HTML, as made popular by the Dynamic Duo: http://grox.net/doc/web/javascript/dynduo/
> 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…
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)?)
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.
> 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…
There was a huge push on archiveteam to scrape as much as they could before it was shut down. If it was saved it'll have the same url on reocities