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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Even when you were just plugging in ethernet cables there was always some bullshit going on Q_Q
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.
And she did it all in notepad
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?
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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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.
Usually, no.
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Poor girl lost all her teeth. ☹️ F
DENTAL PLAN
The old internet was a wonderful place for learning.
And pain Olympics, but my rose coloured glasses are blocking that out right now.
Don't apologize. That pain is exactly why millennials are so much more tech literate than boomers and gen Alpha.
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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I coded HTML for the first time in 2002. So I have 22 years experience. Anyone want to see my ASCII art?
Anyone want to see my ASCII art?
Yes
Here is an old archive that never got updated after I got my own domain. https://asciipr0n.com/fp/
Thats dope
Literally why I started HTML and then into programming. Had to do those sick absolute position overlays on the club pages of Neopets.
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
You just gave me horrible flashbacks of Dreamweaver.
I made an entire syllabus for my high school using on mouse over effects and drop downs with course descriptions, prerequisites and mappings for all future courses/paths. That was around 2005 or 2006. I didnt bother with Dreamweaver because how frustrating it was. Wrote the entire thing by hand using notepad. I don't even think I did it for a grade, it was just me being so sick of us not having a proper syllabus that you could access online. Just printed copies that would say you need to have this prerequisite, but it didn't list what page that other course was on so you had to flip around all over to find it and then figure out what prerequisites were needed there. Got so frustrated I just made my own.
When we were going to move into a new place a year later or so my girlfriend at the time and I were trying to figure out what furniture we wanted or how we would want to situate things to fit in our new place. We couldn't visualize what each other were saying well and know if desks/dressers what not would fit where we wanted. Thus I opened my old web pages, took the blueprint map for the apartment and created a quick drag and drop web page where you could take each item with a name on it and drag it into rooms, place them all where we wanted and then she could play with it and see what didn't fit side by side due to size, and screen shot what she liked/didn't like. Having previous projects put together and being able to just copy previous scripts, probably took me 45 mins to throw together. Settled all issues of "that probably won't fit" and let her play with it when I was at work.
Overkill, possibly.. but it was fun at the time (The syllabus took a long ass time, but that had intentions of the school being able to use it off their website to allow students/parents help plan their own futures)
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<marquee>cool cool cool</marquee>
welcome to my homepage
<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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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.
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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Yeah, that's how HTML is learnt. Never had to look back at HTML afterwards
Is she sweating because she's insecure about her knowledge, or is she sweating because she fears a followup question into WHAT she did?
I'm an open book when it comes to stuff like that. I'd 100% tell a prospective employer that an old goofy anime website was what kicked off my web dev career.
I'm not gonna show my boss my fan fiction.
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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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.
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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I feel personally attacked
Html it self hasn't really changed much.
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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Master of all 22 elements
From Lisa Explains it All to becoming a computer science professor I feel this in my bones.
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