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I think you are right. Also anybody could right-click and "view source". (Imagine being able to do that in any Swing app in their peak, for contrast.) When pa
by icandoit 7y ago
I think you are right.
Also anybody could right-click and "view source". (Imagine being able to do that in any Swing app in their peak, for contrast.)
When pages were just a few hundred lines any page could be recreated with a web browser, ambition, and enough time. Those days are long gone, now, with huge transitive node dependencies, minification, and feature-combinatorial-explosion. Like a sandboxed document-centric qbasic.
- 52-6F-62 7y agoWhen I was a kid that was very much a hobby! I’d save whole websites and play with their code (back then that meant html2/3 and early css and Javascript, but still). It was enticing after playing with terminal views for years before that. Kids like colourful things, what can I say.
- jkestner 7y agoYeah, so many of us got into the trade that way, and in turn developed it into what it became. I’m not proud of my animated GIF phase. Since websites are inscrutable and often irrelevant to the cutting edge internet experience now, it makes me wonder what welcoming medium the kids are going to find that solidifies it as the next creative platform that industries are built on.
- chrismcb 7y agoI used to do that in the c64. Had a freeze cartridge. Click the button and jump into the monitor and cute the assembly language.... Same difference