That's the first time I've heard DHTML to mean "distributed HTML" — I always knew it to mean "dynamic HTML".
They have mistaken it with DCOM I believe.
I was thinking the same thing
Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
181–190 of 354 posts
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#182A memory seared into my brain from the 90s:
I was in the highschool computer lab, working on a website for the school IT administrator. She wanted me to include a patterned background, blinking marquees, GIFs, the whole nine yards. Another student was working on the project with me, sitting next to me. We were both facing the window, away from the door. The admin left the room. I told my fellow student these choices were extremely tacky, and I questioned the life choices that led her to the point of thinking this looked good.
Turns out she came back into the room and was behind me the whole time. Boy, did I feel like a jerk. I apologized.
What a different time that was.
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#183The author forgot making rounded corners using images! I kind of miss the creativity of old web development, especially before responsive web design. There was so much more variation and most sites didn't look like the default bootstrap template. But there were a lot of bad things about this era, particularly non standard browsers
>rounded corners using images
My brain is not happy to have this memory dragged out of cold storage!
Like others here, I got my start answering an ad for someone who knew HTML forms, which I taught myself the day before the interview. Then quit my university job of menial labour and haven't looked back. Incredible times.
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#184My 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…
Great story. Sure sounds like Dreamweaver. My go to back then was Hotdog Pro from Sausagesoft.
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#185The most important table construct using a spacer-gif is missing!
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#186I write maybe three lines of html per year...
I still start writing everything in UPPERCASE.
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#187Discussed at the time (of the article):
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7300429 - Feb 2014 (394 comments)
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#188It’s referenced in the 1x1 gif, all website layout was made with tables. And the 1x1 gif allowed to set very narrow columns/rows, which could be made to look like borders, with images as the round corners.
Also the ubiquitous visitor counter, uploading assets with ftp, cgi-bin, styling in html, animated gifs, midi soundtracks, “in construction” signs, random links to pages the “webmaster” liked.
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some pages still do that - luckily I have this add-on nowadays: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/re-enable-rig... Very satisfying when you can bypass such useless "protections"
Usually those right click protections just popped up an alert on mouse down, so you could skip them by keeping RMB down as you left click them away.. after which the context menu would appear anyway.
You could also use the “context menu” key that many keyboards had next to the windows key. Because it wasn’t a mouse click, you’d get the right click menu open that way.
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#190This makes me feel old. But also glad. I'm glad I experienced web dev before the current pile of abstractions, painful convenience tools and frameworks were lumped upon us. It was fun back then. Now it's a pain.