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You can say what you want but these were great times! Everyone could make their own little ugly homepage and it was exciting. People didn't really judge each ot
by cntlzw 8y ago
You can say what you want but these were great times! Everyone could make their own little ugly homepage and it was exciting. People didn't really judge each other or bragged about how this tech is better than that. I kinda miss it.
- degenerate 8y agoI made some groovy table-based sites by setting up the table layout with the FrontPage GUI and then editing the raw HTML it generated. It taught me HTML and opened the doors to web development for me. Same story using Visual Basic and my segway into programming.
- stantaylor 8y agoIt was pretty amazing to me that you could do WYSIWYG (wow, that's an anachronism itself!) valid HTML development, and then hand-manipulate the HTML and it let you put any invalid shit in there without complaining.
- lukewrites 8y agoAh, tables…I spent so much time tinkering with them to try to get my pages looking right. And then came the day in high school when the computer club advisor told us about Netscape supporting frames. Frames were _so_ exciting.
- VyperCard 8y agoMe too
- liftbigweights 8y agoThe good old WYSIWYG days. That was the hot thing in the late 90s like NoSQL was a few years ago.
- sequoia 8y agoAgreed. When the web technologies were more simple and rudimentary and HTML page hosting free and easy for beginners (e.g. geocities), it took very little to start writing HTML, adding some tiling background images, gifs and midis to express yourself. The variation in website look and feel back then was extreme. Myspace then Facebook (plus forums) obviated the need to build your own site to express yourself online, and disdain for "poorly designed" sites, i.e. general snobbishness, I think discouraged people from messing around. I love that old web! You can still do something similar on Google Sites or similar, but of course it's more constrained.
- arayh 8y agoAh, the good old days where guestbooks and webrings were commonplace. I remember it was an exciting time to be on the Internet. I felt far more connected to people's personal pages back then.
- dclowd9901 8y agoI proudly proclaim to my younger cohorts that I was once in a Space Quest webring. I wear it like a badge of honor!
- russh 8y agoI still have a buckazoid around here somewhere.
- LastZactionHero 8y agoAnyone interested in starting a modern webring? I've wanted to move my blog content off Medium, but then no one would ever see it.
- FelipeCortez 8y agoHere's a modern webring: https://github.com/XXIIVV/webring https://github.com/XXIIVV/webring
- codazoda 8y agoI still post my content to my own site. People still see it; mostly finding it through search.
- sixothree 8y agoWhen yahoo categorized results.
- sangnoir 8y ago> People didn't really judge each other or bragged about how this tech is better than that I judged people - IIS was terrible and you were better off with Apache, mod_perl and CGI.pm. I still can't believe how far ahead of its time CPAN was!
- tresil 8y agoReally? While I developed many sites in FrontPage, it was always looked down on by most people I knew. Many hosts outright refused to do full integration with it or run its extensions. The Generated HTML was far better than Word would generate, but it still was wonky unless you really knew what to avoid or were doing something incredibly simple.
- tomatocracy 8y agoNot running its extensions was mostly a result of the fact that that required running IIS on Windows NT. IIS had a number of high profile problems, and Windows NT 3.51/4.0 (remember, bare metal not VMs) really wasn't ready for running at that scale or in that context. Compared to putting in a SPARC-based machine running Solaris, it just didn't make sense - much harder to manage, less efficient use of resources etc.
- WalterGR 8y agoHow to install the FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions to an Apache Web server https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/202198/how-to-install-the-frontpage-2000-server-extensions-to-an-apache-web-s https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/202198/how-to-insta...