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Yes! I don't think people who started in the modern age can even relate to how amazing this was, to have a documentation site with a built-in user comment syste
by aeontech 5y ago
Yes! I don't think people who started in the modern age can even relate to how amazing this was, to have a documentation site with a built-in user comment system collecting errata, tips, pointers and snippets (even as erroneous as they sometimes were)...
This was before the embarrassment of riches that we have now...
- before proliferation of open source examples on GitHub,
- before StackOverflow,
- before jsfiddles,
- before snippets on gist or pastebin
- before very common web forums (many of which were eventually written in PHP in fact)...
- before fantastic search results of google...
Best you could hope for when you got stuck? Someone's personal web page, or usenet and mailing lists...
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- simon1ltd 5y agoThe search engines weren't great -- I think I had the best luck with Altavista. It's almost impossible to convey how different the 'web was back then. Searching mailing list or usenet archives was the only way to track down examples most of the time.