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Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by tikwidd »

baby wrote: post #248

Oh man. I was a "web developer" back then. - I'm surprised he didn't mention tables. That's the first thing that came to my mind. We didn't use CSS but tables to make a layout. And I have to admit I miss them. Yes we have grid systems like bootstrap now but still, tables were damn easy. - What about those counters that were displaying how many visitors had came since the website creation - Those "in construction" pag…

- (in my really early days) using flamingtext.com to make headers

- using as much code from dynamicdrive.com as possible

- .dhtml

- pasting little flourishes like .·. .:· everywhere

- phpBB and invision power board

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Post by dalke »

bhousel wrote: post #267
dalke wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember when SGI came by to demo their VRML viewer with an animated character. During Q&A I commented that the web made it easy to learn by 'view source'; "how do you do that with VRML?" I remember being dissatisfied with their response. (I think you were supposed to use one of their authoring tools for it?)

Was it Floops?

Whoa! Totally!

Ahh, and I see now why it would have been so hard to author - it was based on motion capture.

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Post by stan_rogers »

grayrest wrote: post #112
icedchai wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's see the same thing with CSS! Oh, how far we've come...

span {display: inline-block}

When I was a kid (well, a less decrepit and slightly less old man) and there was no calc(), we did that sort of thing with padding-left, float, and negative margin-left.

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Post by thousande »

runewell wrote: post #230

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.

good times! That moment when you had to --debug-- refactor your 30+ levels of nested tables filled with gifs and font tags ;)

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Post by dalke »

skue wrote: post #206
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?

VRML? Bah, back then I was still hoping GopherVR would restore gopher as the primary protocol for the Internet. (This must be what it feels like to realize you're old...)

Who needs gopher when you can just ftp to places and download lists of what they have? And lists of what they know that other people have.

Hmm, right. That got tiresome after a bit, so "telnet archie.mcgill.ca" and do an archie search.

I remember that by 1992 the index overflowed signed 32 bit int and started giving "-45%" complete.

Of course we're not old. Those were the ones who could replace a VAX disk pack, and who had to log in via dedicated terminals instead of dial-up via a PC. :)

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by yeukhon »

Yes. I was a 90s developer. I was only 8 years old. I was born in 1991. I remember them. I used them to make my personal webpage as part of my computer class (yes we learned that at such young age at HK) assignment. God, they were fun! And you know what else we were doing? Dreamweaver MX!
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