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[–] [email protected] 180 points 3 weeks ago (7 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.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 weeks ago

And she did it all in notepad

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Usually, no.

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[–] [email protected] 160 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

The old internet was a wonderful place for learning.

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

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you.

(Also happy thanksgiving!)

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Don't apologize. That pain is exactly why millennials are so much more tech literate than boomers and gen Alpha.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

don’t click that link! It could be a shitty song on Youtube

Zoomers

don’t click that link, if you’re lucky it’s just gay porn and we don’t have to format the drives

Millennials

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
<marquee>cool cool cool</marquee>
[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
<img>under_construction.gif</img>  
<embed SRC="linkinpark_numb.midi" hidden=true autostart=true loop=1>

That's the extent I remember from grade school, had to make a homepage in like grade 5 and literally everyone had flaming text, crappy gifs, and horrible midi songs. Computer lab must have been a blast for the teachers.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
ee>cool cool cool</marquee><marqu
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

l cool cool</marquee><marquee>coo

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You just gave me horrible flashbacks of Dreamweaver.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 weeks 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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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks 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?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Anyone want to see my ASCII art?

Yes

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

So is mine!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks 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?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks 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.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago

I feel personally attacked

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Poor girl lost all her teeth. ☹️ F

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

Master of all 22 elements

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

Html it self hasn't really changed much.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks 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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks 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!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No shame in being self taught.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

blink tag for life, motherfuckers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Neopets, GaiaOnline, MySpace, to name the biggest three

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks 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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