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Low key, this guide is how I got into programming and probably plays a big role in why I’m now a Software Engineer. Throwback.
by aylmao 9y ago
Low key, this guide is how I got into programming and probably plays a big role in why I’m now a Software Engineer. Throwback.
- bpicolo 9y agoSame here, amazing that the site is virtually the same now. Being acquired by viacom was terrible for the site. (Not to mention that it became product placement at every turn). Kind of sad that micropayments are the defacto monetization model for games now, it really kills all sense of accomplishment for finding cool items
- stordoff 9y agoNeopets is probably the first place I encountered random item drops - I remember half the cybercafé freaking out when someone randomly found a Paintbrush.
- brailsafe 9y agoSame here. This and writing bots for RuneScape.
- 52-6F-62 9y agoI never saw the Neopets guide. For me, it was Joe Burns' site: HTMLGoodies[0]. It was indispensable for me. That and a lot of help from FrontPage Express[1] & viewing the source code of whatever I'd just made. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/19990429010831/http://www.htmlgoodies.com:80/ https://web.archive.org/web/19990429010831/http://www.htmlgo... [1] http://www.jegsworks.com/lessons/web/html/fpx/fpx.htm http://www.jegsworks.com/lessons/web/html/fpx/fpx.htm
- bstamour 9y agoI remember HTMLGoodies. Before coming across it I learned the basics from a site called Lissa Explains [0]. [0] http://www.lissaexplains.com/ http://www.lissaexplains.com/
- uremog 9y agoHTMLGoodies helped me make terrible Geocities sites.
- 52-6F-62 9y agoYou and me both
- stordoff 9y agoThis is one of the first sites I recall using, around 2002: http://www.lissaexplains.com/ http://www.lissaexplains.com/ (I'm surprised it's still online TBH. Before that was a book from my local library (and a library PC), which I vividly remember because it took me _way_ too long to realise that "href" is not "herf".
- aylmao 9y agoFor me it was this Neopets guide and FrontPage too, actually (: