Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
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Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
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Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#2No mention of the page-view counter?
Remember those, we'd put the message "just a counter, don't click" beneath them.
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#3Between flash and html5, there was a brief moment where DHTML games looked viable. I remember building something like a space invaders clone. Literally repositioning DOM divs each setInterval tick. There were a few full fledged experiments out there. The beauty is since its just DOM, they are playable forever if still hosted ;)
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#4Definitely was interesting, and fun times for sure.
Microsoft with ASP, ActiveX and VBScript in pages. I also remember writing ISAPI extensions for IIS to handle searching backend systems. IIRC e-bay was the best known company that had an ISAPI extension at one point. I worked at a smaller company where we did it cause our systems were disconnected and we had to search custom databases.
Macromedia with dreamweaver & Flash & shockwave at one point (think that was a little later).
Java applets, ugh.
Splash pages, visitor counters.
ODBC, ADO, OLE DB... Connecting to databases was always about finding the right driver for your OS and DB version which depending on OS & DB could be a challenge.
Browser targeting was a major pain, splash/home pages telling you to only use IE or Netscape etc.
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#5As a prolific user of nbsp; for aligning/indentation/spacing, I feel like millions of man years could have been saved by just deeming that acceptable than by trying to find the right voodoo mix of padding/margin/box-model yada yada that we ended up with.
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#6Don't forget rabid useragent sniffing to send browsers the "good pages": http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
this probably started in 1997-or 1998 or so, and probably had its apex in the mid 2000s especially with the hegemony of IE5.
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#7No mention of the page-view counter? Remember those, we'd put the message "just a counter, don't click" beneath them.
also banner ads:
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#8I still remember a DHTML folder tree view, it was quite popular.
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#9Less we forget about
What an amazing time. Felt like the wild west back then.
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#10Less we forget about What an amazing time. Felt like the wild west back then.
Still feels like the wild west, just in a different way