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Remember back in the day when you could learn a little HTML and create a presence on the web? Back when you could browse with a unix (text) based web browser. You know what I’m talking about. Back before geocities.. Even before Hotmail… Back when web based chat rooms were framed Perl scripts. Back when people didn’t realize security was an issue. Back when you could pay for dialup and share that username & password with friends all online at the same time. Back when the BBS systems hit an ultimate high in quantity and fell off in the same day. Back when you’re 56.k modem was killer shit since you upgraded from a 28.8. Somewhere along the lines when V.90 was supposed to mean something. Back when you could register anything as a dot com if you had the money.
I’m just rambling thinking of the young days when I thought I could make websites for people who wanted to “be on the internet”. It was so damn easy to do back then. Layout the design with tables or frames and fill in the content and you were done. It even remained easy up until the ‘dot com boom’ started and ended in the same day. Suddenly people wanted all this dynamic content. Search engine optimization became something you had to be ‘good’ at.
It all just keeps getting more and more complicated. Now I sit here today completely incapable of creating a website on my own anymore. Now if I want to get anything done I have to create the script or code base for it (since I guess that is the niche I have fallen into) and then run off and find a CSS person and a Graphics person and a usability expert and a database management freaking scientist. Now I have to build test cases, concern myself with scalability, load test everything from the first line of code. I couldn’t have ever thought when I was 9 to 10 years old that I would be refactoring. If asked that question I would have had the most awful blank stare. What?
Anyway, I’ve been working on a project w/a friend lately & I’m a little miffed I can’t do the whole damn thing myself. I hate waiting around for other people to do their part. On top of that I went out today to learn some CSS compliance and design stuff from one of the best CSS guys I know so I’m experiencing information overload. [/rant]
Things were just easier back then. =)
Interesting. You’re experiencing how I feel today about these machines. Actually, computers today are just an extension of the net or ‘web’.
Chris and I fired up an old TRS-80 machine and programed it to play lunar lander. heh. today there is no programing and downloading software is a snap. It took us about a half hour loading the program, knowing the whole time if the machine died we’d have to start all over again.
At the same time there was some satisfaction in creating a program with your flair and tastes. Instead of cold calculating terminology. We used some of our own words to have the application use. Funny is all I have to say about that!!!
Posted by Mhoughtelin, on May 31st, 2006, às 6:45 am. #.
Tell me about it. Okay… think about how BEGINNERS feel - way not worthy. You start learning and once you grasp a concept another is added and the original concept is null and void. - Frustrated
Posted by charlotte, on May 31st, 2006, às 3:14 pm. #.
I went through that about a year ago. I started this web project, but couldn’t get anything out of it, because I was unable to find a graphic designer. I can’t say that my glory days were as far back as yours, because getting a geocities account started me on this whole programming thing. That was back when I borrowed my friend’s Phosothop 5 disc, and used Dreamweaver 4 for HTML. I never cared (or even knew) that Dreamweaver was raping the code while I was in designer view. I don’t think it’s as easy to get away with now. The W3C validator would blow up if I passed it one of those documents.
Doing the code part isn’t a bad thing. Writing code is fun! Just think. Graphic designers use Apple’s, and JeffK says that Apple’s are for grade school moms.
I just have to say that back in the day when i had just started learning about html my website just wasnt that good. Thanks to liquid’s help i have learned so much more about websites. Peace ya’ll
Posted by Pringlez03, on June 1st, 2006, às 7:59 pm. #.
Have to admit I had a Geocities site once upon a time ….totally loved it! My first exposure to computers was pretty much back in 1992 when my boyfriend at the time, Biff the hippy dippy DJ, ran a BBS. I think our modem back then was something like 14400 - and we thought it kicked a.. Then along came the internet with mIRC / pIRCh or whatever it was called. I laugh when I think of the wav files and popups I used to collect - but then we used to think Super Mario was cool too. Sigh.
Burn My Time © 2007.
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