I miss guestbooks. No context, no social media BS, just "say hi or something." I think the first server-side script I ever wrote was possibly the worst guestbook ever in perl on Tripod.
And webrings. Oh god webrings...
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
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#72No mention of "Made with Notepad" badge images? ...or the thousands of other badges that I, for whatever reason had to shoehorn into my website?
'Made with Notepad' signs intimidated this FrontPage warrior with copapasta-javascript-animation skillz.
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#73> 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…
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...
http://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Own-Page---Kids/dp/084317459...
1998. Hell, I think I still have this book laying around somewhere. I got it at a book fair in elementary school and from then on out I was always making one stupid webpage or another. Until I discovered Java of course.
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#74Floating text following the mouse pointer. The bonus one was the scrolling text in the bottom left of the browser panel (location bar?)
> (location bar?)
I think you mean "status bar", but yeah they were all the rage.
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#75We weren't web developers back then, we were web masters
and we didn't build a website, we built a homepage.
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#76Can anyone explain the bit about 1x1.gif being the only way, to this day, to vertically center elements? AFAIK there's still no way to vertically center a dynamic height element without javascript, so if invisible gifs can do it I'd at least like to know how.
It was used more to stretch table cells to achieve pixel perfect layouts.
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#77Oh 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.
I used to love the tag. Has anyone invented a better way to break up sections?
Section? Sounds like something with a header? I would probably just wrap the section in a section tag.
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#78> 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…
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.
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#79I remember working with MS Frontpage in the beginning. Frames were the shit in 1998. Who got the most amazing running font? Who has the most freaking elevator midi as a background sound? Yes, the background sound tag. Does that even exist anymore?
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#80Can anyone explain the bit about 1x1.gif being the only way, to this day, to vertically center elements? AFAIK there's still no way to vertically center a dynamic height element without javascript, so if invisible gifs can do it I'd at least like to know how.
I don't know about spacer gifs, but you can use tables. Or fake tables using CSS. JavaScript definitely isn't required, even to vertically center things in IE6.