Don't forget page dividers!
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
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Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
#42We weren't web developers back then, we were web masters
Well the postmaster looked after sendmail, that being the old word for the man in charge of the post office. The hostmaster looked after DNS because it rhymed, and they needed a word for the guy who looked after the website.
It was a very different meaning from today's "rockstar ninja".
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#43Oh, middle school souvenirs…
88x31 :-D
I think it misses the fact that JavaScript was mostly used for stuff like rollovers on images back then. Oh, and customized scrollbars in IE! Haha! This post is such much fun I can't stop smiling! Thanks for sharing!
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#44Remember when grey was the default background for pretty much all browsers? Then one day Netscape (I think) came out with a new version and the default background was white. Just like paper. The future was upon us.
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#45> 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 can't happen but notice the "village" button on the bottom on your site. I used to write "news" for that site. I still talk to the original owner of that site today.
ahh... memories :)
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#46Damn... I remember learning about yahoo.com for the first time at a Barnes & Nobles when I was actually looking for books about the WWW haha. Two other guys in the same aisle were exchanging bookmarks in person. Anybody else remember writing links down on paper?
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#47Needs a section on the joys of tables. Possibly my favorite bug ever: HTML has a weird relationship with whitespace; usually it doesn't matter much, except when it does: http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol7/html_no1.htm This is one of the few bugs I've encountered that still makes me angry to this day. I spent so much time trying to figure it out.
Tables + frames!
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#48We were still using these techniques a few years ago for emails. :(
Cutting edge for email is responsive design with media queries and... tables for layout.
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#49Editing pages with notepad.exe
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#50Disappointed by the lack of 'under construction' and blue fire gifs.