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[–] tetris11@lemmy.world 171 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I don't know why she's nervous, she clearly knew the spec well and didn't have to resort to modern abstraction frameworks to serve a simple static site.

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago

And she did it all in notepad

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

yeah, but if you don't use wordpress to serve 3 static webpages, how will you get repeated business when it doesn't get hacked in 3 years?

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You obviously include a busy loop in JavaScript that takes exponentially more time each year. Then every few years you change the base year

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The absolute horseshit that things like Facebook consist of make me wonder if half the people who work on it have even made an HTML page from scratch.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Usually, no.

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[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 151 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The old internet was a wonderful place for learning.

And pain Olympics, but my rose coloured glasses are blocking that out right now.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] kender242@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Thank you.

(Also happy thanksgiving!)

[–] lemmyman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow I was thinking about that just the other day (I remember it as "BME pain olympics"). I wonder if it's still floating around out there? But TBH I don't want to know.

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[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)
<marquee>cool cool cool</marquee>
[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
ee>cool cool cool</marquee><marqu
[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

l cool cool</marquee><marquee>coo

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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21233033/how-can-i-create-a-marquee-effect

CSS3 and HTML. Not quite as simple as an easy tag, but you can party like it is 1999.

[–] Kryptenx@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally why I started HTML and then into programming. Had to do those sick absolute position overlays on the club pages of Neopets.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Myspace also got a number of people playing with HTML and CSS if I remember correctly. It's been years. Not sure CSS is actually even used anymore. I enjoyed web design classes back in the 2000s. Macromedia still owned Dreamweaver and it wasn't all that great, so I could still do better by hand. I haven't played around with any of it in years now, but I assume those programs have GUIs that blow away anything that can be written in notepad like back then.

If you've never trouble shot 100 pages of JavaScript in notepad because you didn't have access to other tools, you haven't had "fun" before. ...fucking nightmare. Find out you put an extra space somewhere.

The better you got though you'd narrow down finding those errors quickly, and then eventually find out a fucking free program will color code the shit and tell you to look at line 232 because it doesn't make sense

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You just gave me horrible flashbacks of Dreamweaver.

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[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Okay but that is adorable and true XD

The old internet taught us so many random skills. I couldn't type on a keyboard for jack until I got into MMO's back in the day, because it was pre voice comms. So I learned to type faster so I would struggle less XD

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[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 32 points 1 year ago

For those interested Neocities is a modern equivalent. The homepage has some featured pages linked you can browse if you are looking to kill time.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I coded HTML for the first time in 2002. So I have 22 years experience. Anyone want to see my ASCII art?

[–] sag@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone want to see my ASCII art?

Yes

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Here is an old archive that never got updated after I got my own domain. https://asciipr0n.com/fp/

[–] lemimmi@feddit.org 8 points 1 year ago
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[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (7 children)

My Angelfire page is still up. I check on it every few years.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

So is mine!

[–] evidences@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The day Yahoo killed geocities was the day my innocence died.

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago

I feel personally attacked

[–] KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is she sweating because she's insecure about her knowledge, or is she sweating because she fears a followup question into WHAT she did?

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She’s sweating because she has a disorder that makes her sweat at random moments. Everyone always reads too much into it.

[–] Senseless@feddit.org 6 points 1 year ago

hyperhidrosis

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[–] Jocker@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's how HTML is learnt. Never had to look back at HTML afterwards

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Poor girl lost all her teeth. ☹️ F

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[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Got my first computer in 92 so I have 35 years of experience.

I played a shitty port of Street fighter 2 on it an Lucas arts adventures

When can I start, work is a joke to me and I can figure anything out quickly.

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[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Html it self hasn't really changed much.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Parts of my old AngelFire website is still archived. A horrible mess of Comic Sans, black backgrounds with lime green and dark red or purple text, animated gifs, auto-playing sounds, frames and pretty much any and all features of HTML, especially things you never really saw being used like blinking and color changing text that wasn't just an image.

Too bad none of the Klik'n'Play games I made and had uploaded there are able to be downloaded... I kinda want to be reminded exactly what the Pikachu virtual pet I made was like in all it's cringe glory. Though Nintendo would probably be sending an army of lawyers up my ass rn if it was.

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[–] PixelProf@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

From Lisa Explains it All to becoming a computer science professor I feel this in my bones.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Master of all 22 elements

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Worms 2 but yes this is absolutely on point. I think my host was angelfire? I taught myself frames and thought I was so cool!

[–] art@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No shame in being self taught.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There should be pride in being self taught. Although it's hard to do it ~~hard~~ right (as in: do your own research).

[–] MrTHXcertified@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My earliest experiences of computer networking were due to wanting to host multiplayer gaming sessions with friends. Things did not "just work" back then.

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I still have a geocities page, can't login to it, but it's still up.

[–] StannisDMannis@lemmy.today 9 points 1 year ago
[–] Stern@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neopets, GaiaOnline, MySpace, to name the biggest three

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

blink tag for life, motherfuckers.

[–] ClipperDefiance@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I learned everything I know from CSShelp the Kougra. It's a shame that her page has since been replaced with the species default. It was such a great resource.

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