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There was this horrible site called experts-exchange.com (note the hyphen) that dominated search results, but IIRC they made you pay to see the answers.
by ericflo 9y ago
There was this horrible site called experts-exchange.com (note the hyphen) that dominated search results, but IIRC they made you pay to see the answers.
- merlincorey 9y agoYou could always scroll down to the bottom of the page where they were uncensored.
- Someone 9y agoIIRC: _can_, not _could_. They only started doing that when Google started punishing them in their search results for not showing others what they showed Google's robots.
- ry_ry 9y agoAlso from the same era was implausibly popular 'dynamic HTML' site Dynamic Drive, where users could copypaste semi-curated JS, which was responsible for some of the worst code ever to be deployed on the internet. I honestly don't know if it helped move web development forwards or held it back!
- DanSmooth 9y agoI once argued that the best thing that ever happened to web-development in terms of adoption was "view source" and how easily accessible it was.
- ry_ry 9y agoAbsolutely! That and being able to run code directly in the context of the page through the dev tools console. Even these days if i'm having a poke around somebody else's work, one of the first things i do is to pop open the dev tools and start seeing which libraries they're running and what their custom namespaces are.