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> probably came a generations of web programming tinkerers Neopets allowed "pet pages" containing HTML when I was 10 years old, and this was my first foray int
by johnmaguire2013 9y ago
> probably came a generations of web programming tinkerers
Neopets allowed "pet pages" containing HTML when I was 10 years old, and this was my first foray into programming.
- seangrogg 9y agoLikewise; to this day I still talk about how Neopets' pet pages were my introduction to building web content.
- Apocryphon 9y agoNeopets, MySpace, Xanga, Angelfire, Tripod, Geocities...
- seangrogg 9y agoMinus Xanga, I made heaps of terrible UI decisions on those platforms. Good times =)
- giggles_giggles 9y agoMy girlfriend, otherwise non-technical, still maintains one of these. There's this huge tribal knowledge built up around copy-paste CSS hacks to enable things like tab navigation all on one page with no JS. It's actually pretty wild some of the stuff these folks do, especially since almost none of them have any technical knowledge and it's all trial-and-error and sharing what works through the forums. The amount of hackery they do for their forum guild pages (hosted as pet pages) and such almost blows my mind more than the fact that Neopets is still around and somewhat active after all these years.