... Says the guy with a website which only supports IE9+! I had to switch browsers.. even though he agrees my choice of IE4 is best, nonetheless!
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
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#362Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uh, are you me? My HTML book was a different one, but I definitely had the pokemon[1] thing. All in elementary school. Who knew it would end up being my career? [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070515090557/http://www.maxpag...
My thing was Dragon Ball Z sites. CGI/Perl running NewsPro, links to questionable RealMedia content. What a sucker I was! Good thing PHP came along and taught us all what true webmastery is.
with all the hate php gets now, people forget how it changed the game back at the turn if the century. it was so easy.
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#364Stay tuned for episode 2 including: * Nested table layouts, adventures in collapsed borders * window.status = "awesome" * HRs: "I can make a 3d hole in my page" * document.all being the best DHTML api.
And don't forget 2x2.gif, with the top left and bottom right pixel transparent, and the other two pixels coloured white or grey. Used to make background images of table cells with this, and that would create a faux opacity effect with whatever was used as the background image behind the table.
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#365Oh man. The shot of nostalgia brought on by this brought me almost to tears. I had them all, Geocities, Tripod... Saturday mornings hooked in to ftp.idsoftware.com at 33.6k and hand-crafting updates to my sites in notepad.exe (using uppercase tags, naturally).
It's ridiculous... the web is a much better place, technologically, nowadays, but something for me has been lost. As the author alluded to at the end of the article, it's all frameworks and abstractions. It's high gloss and low content. Bah.
And with this post, I have become my parents.
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#366Earlier quoted context omitted.
This reminded me of my pokemon fan site (Poketown) from 2000. https://web.archive.org/web/20000510132913/http://poketown.o... Looks like I was a pattern of grid design (ala tables) back then.
Has everyone made a Pokemon site as part of some rite of passage or something? One of the first things I did to teach myself Perl and HTML back in the day was write a Pokedex page. Maybe Pokemon can be the new Hello World.
I made a school website instead. It got official and to thank me for the good deed they removed our class from the school history when they build the new website and converted the image archive, because we weren't up to their standard or whatever.
Catholics .. gotta love them.
I still remember sitting there hours and days banging my head on the table how to get this school logo exactly in the center at the top of the page where it had to stay visible even if the page was scrolled, because "it has to be up there. And it must be always visible." Fun times.
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#367Everytime I see Geocities mentioned I feel sad as I could never find my old Geocities site, I tried searching through the archives. All I remember is I was in SiliconValley/Lakes after that I'm stumped.
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#368> 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…
A big part of the GeoCities content has been available as a torrent file from a group called the Archive Team and maybe you can still download it:
http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=GeoCities
The file was huge, about several hundred gigabyte. I didn't download it, because I don't have enough space and downloading it would take ages with my slow connection.
On http://reocities.com/ you can browse through some of the old pages and sites, but many things are broken now, missing images.
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#369Stay tuned for episode 2 including: * Nested table layouts, adventures in collapsed borders * window.status = "awesome" * HRs: "I can make a 3d hole in my page" * document.all being the best DHTML api.
* Every site had a guestbook, which was displayed as "some text some text 2 ..." etc. Centered, of course.
and wide open to the funkiest XSS you can imagine--boy did that ever blow my mind when someone explained me the idea, I had been coding hardcore JS for years but it never clicked that this would allows you to pwn everything. except my mind went more into practical joke settings "hey I can inject JS and make all links on this guestbook EXPLODE if you click them?? aahaha"
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#370Oh God, I remember . And the tag. And I remember I made a Java applet that consumed so many resources that everyone who visited my page thought their machine had locked up. Good times.
What's necessarily wrong with the tag? It still has its legitimate use cases.
For instance, when you list corporate structure on your website you can use it to delineate the HR department.