I'm sure somebody else has mentioned it, but don't forget frames!
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
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Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
#292Related Bootstrap theme: http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/
I can't stop laughing. To say that it is merely extremely accurate would be a travesty of the english language.
lol, fuck. I remember every goddamned thing on that page.
The dude coding in the lower right was a nice touch. Haven't seen that in a long time.
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#293Does anyone else remember those amazingly epic flash sites? I even learned Flash 3 because of those... wow...
- http://www.thefwa.com/flash10/gabo.html - http://www.eye4u.com/home/
There are others (manoone) but I can't find archived copies.
Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
#294Related Bootstrap theme: http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/
Is it just me or is that background 3d? That's tripping me out.
That is all Photoshop was used for back in the day.
Noise filter, sheer, blur, fuck with the levels, colorize with a horribly bright shade of something. If you fucked it up bad enough you couldn't tell it wasn't repeating. 90x90 and 120x120 all the way down.
That and making an amazing image with a completely pointless sun glare filter and then cutting the image into cubes so you could display it on the site. Thats how "consultants" overcame HTML limitations for a long ass time.
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#295Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm surprised Tripod.com is still hosting my Pokemon site, Pikachu's Place [1]! I used take screenshots of episodes by taking pictures of the TV using a digital camera and uploaded them to the site. Hilarious. Can't forget about the Paint Shop Pro animated graphics! [1] http://pika299.tripod.com/
Wow, tripod... no pokemon for me (I was a bit too old for that craze), but they are still hosting my site with screenshots for a Quake3 bsp renderer I wrote back then: http://gmcbay.tripod.com/ And my OpenGL driver for the Genesis engine.. the download zip of source code even still works: http://gmcbay.tripod.com/oldindex.html Pretty funny trip down nostalgia lane, including a reference to my very old gfm@my-deja.com…
You had me at Genesis3D. Spent so many hours building levels and things with friends using that.
Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
#296Ha ha! Brilliant! CGI Scripts anyone? Unfortunately I remember very well the days when it all started to become popular. I created my personal Web page in '94 hosted on the University's servers. 2 years later I was creating Web applications using shell or C-based CGI scripts . And then when I saw Duke juggling I started to work on Java.
I had a C-based CGI script that was essentially a flat-file database engine in '97 that got me booted from the Uni server.
Feels like coming full circle to now be building a webapp with Go.
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#297Man, I loved buttons.
This post made with vim.
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#298This was really funny, thanks! As I finished reading, I realized how ridiculously much I've had to learn over the past ~15 years as a web dev.
Things have changed so much on so many levels. For example, just over the past week, I've had to set up a server, a CI tool, install and configure some databases, built an app using a bunch of different languages, frameworks and whatnot, learn a new language, etc.
The reason I'm saying this is because the number of skills I've acquired so far would have seemed absolutely daunting years ago. A lot of these skills are of course perishable, but the sheer number of concepts you have to keep in mind at any one time when working in web dev is ridiculous (though interesting for the most part).[1]
Over the years I've spoken to a lot of kids who wanted to learn web development, and I'm never quite sure what to say. On one hand I really want them to see how cool it can be, on the other hand I'm always concerned I might scare them when I explain how you achieve cool things.
I love what I do, but if you want to properly understand the tools you're using, web dev isn't for the faint of heart these days.
[1] I'm not saying this doesn't apply to other fields, web dev just happens to be the one I know the best.
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#299I 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.
This is so true.
I remember learning Java from a book, and many of my lightbulb moments about programming came from reading code, not writing it.
Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
#300What about CGI scripts from Matt's Script Archive [1] which amazingly is still alive? [1] http://www.scriptarchive.com/
Holy shit. That place was a mecca.