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Mark Zuckerberg’s Design Skills, Circa 2001

12 points by GVRV 16y ago

armandososa 16y ago
Somebody's confusing design ability with coding ability.
- apphacker 16y ago
  Still, that's a really terrible user interface. Engineers at least can create something of the quality of GNU's site or the Linux Kernel site. And the markup on those early Zuckerman pages has mix-matched casing. Looks like a copy paste job.
  - dirtyaura 16y ago
    So what. Copy-paste and modification is a totally cool way to learn and do. That's the reason why web technologies spread so fast: it was easy to see how a web page was done, copy it and do some modifications.
  - snprbob86 16y ago
    Dude, he was 16. We live in an age of record. Thanks in no small part to Zuckerberg himself, the next great wave of software engineers and entrepreneurs who we admire, respect, and study will have surely done something stupid on the internet. Or maybe they made an ugly website. People learning make mistakes. They produce shoddy work. But doing work is how you learn. We should encourage aspiring hackers to launch their careers early, collect feedback, and iterate on themselves... even if that means someone is going to mock them for trying.
    - apphacker 16y ago
      Right, I wasn't trying to take anything away from the guy. He's obviously a very successful individual. I know I've created some terrible stuff.
- MaysonL 16y ago
  The title of the original is MZ's Coding Skills
marilyn 16y ago
Doing is how people learn in this field. I'm sure there are some real doosies in the way-back machine by me.
- eam 16y ago
  That's for sure. It reminds me when I did my first website on Angelfire (which coincidentally was also at age 16). At the time I thought it was the best thing I've ever made, now I look back and realize how hideous it is. I'm feeling nostalgic. :(
  - brandonkm 16y ago
    'Hideous' is a rather relative in the context of the geocities/angelfire web era. I don't even think things like 'good web design' really crossed my mind. At least not in the way that you see those "top n ways how to code a modern website" type of articles. The web in general was a giant novelty, so all my friends and I really cared about was how cool something looked on the screen.
almost 16y ago
Seriously, how is it possible that anyone finds interesting a page written by Zuckerberg when he was 16? What possible interest could this have to anyone?
- detst 16y ago
  People are interested in the past of famous or otherwise notable people. This is a little part of his; a little creation before his big creation. Why is that surprising?
djhomeless 16y ago
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" Granted FB's first homepage was ugly, but as other have commented solid engineering != good design skills. We've all been there. ;)

12 points by GVRV 16y ago

armandososa 16y ago

Somebody's confusing design ability with coding ability.

apphacker 16y ago
Still, that's a really terrible user interface. Engineers at least can create something of the quality of GNU's site or the Linux Kernel site. And the markup on those early Zuckerman pages has mix-matched casing. Looks like a copy paste job.
- dirtyaura 16y ago
  So what. Copy-paste and modification is a totally cool way to learn and do. That's the reason why web technologies spread so fast: it was easy to see how a web page was done, copy it and do some modifications.
- snprbob86 16y ago
  Dude, he was 16. We live in an age of record. Thanks in no small part to Zuckerberg himself, the next great wave of software engineers and entrepreneurs who we admire, respect, and study will have surely done something stupid on the internet. Or maybe they made an ugly website. People learning make mistakes. They produce shoddy work. But doing work is how you learn. We should encourage aspiring hackers to launch their careers early, collect feedback, and iterate on themselves... even if that means someone is going to mock them for trying.
  - apphacker 16y ago
    Right, I wasn't trying to take anything away from the guy. He's obviously a very successful individual. I know I've created some terrible stuff.
MaysonL 16y ago
The title of the original is MZ's Coding Skills

marilyn 16y ago

Doing is how people learn in this field. I'm sure there are some real doosies in the way-back machine by me.

eam 16y ago
That's for sure. It reminds me when I did my first website on Angelfire (which coincidentally was also at age 16). At the time I thought it was the best thing I've ever made, now I look back and realize how hideous it is. I'm feeling nostalgic. :(
- brandonkm 16y ago
  'Hideous' is a rather relative in the context of the geocities/angelfire web era. I don't even think things like 'good web design' really crossed my mind. At least not in the way that you see those "top n ways how to code a modern website" type of articles. The web in general was a giant novelty, so all my friends and I really cared about was how cool something looked on the screen.

almost 16y ago

Seriously, how is it possible that anyone finds interesting a page written by Zuckerberg when he was 16? What possible interest could this have to anyone?

detst 16y ago
People are interested in the past of famous or otherwise notable people. This is a little part of his; a little creation before his big creation. Why is that surprising?

djhomeless 16y ago

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" Granted FB's first homepage was ugly, but as other have commented solid engineering != good design skills. We've all been there. ;)