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Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by dragonwriter »

return0 wrote: post #184
dalke wrote: post #148

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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,…

Some of these happened on short bursts during the 20th century, the centuries before didn't experience life-changing technologies often. Also, things like genome sequencing or the fax haven't changed our day-to-day habits as much as the internet did.

> Some of these happened on short bursts during the 20th century, the centuries before didn't experience life-changing technologies often.

More accurately, the "life changing" effects of new technologies (which are often a result of them being synthesized with other technologies and/or applied outside of their original context) took a lot longer to develop, largely because the spread of awareness of new technologies took longer. Which is why the frequency of the appearance of those life-changing effects of technology pretty consistently has increased as the speed and reach of information dissemination technologies has increased.

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Post by michaelw »

nikatwork wrote: post #207

> 1x1.gif let you push elements all around the page effortlessly. To this day it is the only way to vertically center elements. False, dynamic vertical centering has always been possible with tables: dynamically vertically centered This is something CSS still can't seem to do dynamically except with table-emulation, which, you know, kind of defeats the whole fucking purpose of CSS (and isn't backwards compatible anyw…

Take a look at flexbox. http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

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Post by bendmorris »

pvnick wrote: post #11

> 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…

Serious deja vu - I must have come across your website at some point. I was also very into the "pokemon sim" craze back in the day. Here's mine:

http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/charmander/

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Post by jamesbritt »

pigDisgusting wrote: post #204
jamesbritt wrote: post #197

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For some reason I have &#

...do you mean   ??? That's the numeric entity for a non-breakng space.   is the named entity for the same character.

Yes!

Not burned-in: Escaping stuff on HN. :)

Anyways, I don't recall the details, but there's was a browser (I think) that didn't recognize the named entity so I had to use the numerical form. And after that I used that form all the time when I needed the forced spacing.

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Post by runewell »

Lol, all of these items brought back memories. I used to be a master at the 1x1 shim.gif. You should also include the crazy table layouts we had. Before the days of div tags we had to use multiple nested tables with 1x1 gif spacing within them to produce a complicated design accurately on every browser. Sigh ... I feel old now at 32.
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