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The first web pages I made I had to type into the OG Notepad. And there were no tools to help, and you had to support 3 resolutions + at least 2 browsers. This
by Mezzie 5y ago
The first web pages I made I had to type into the OG Notepad. And there were no tools to help, and you had to support 3 resolutions + at least 2 browsers. This was before responsive design (or indeed any kind of HTML/CSS design practices) or media queries, so for each page of content I had to write six different pages. There were no guides to help with understanding Netscape vs. IE, no 24-hr tech updates/phones (so you'd take a vacation for a week, IE would update, and you'd come back to sad emails about how the site is broken), etc. Maintenance and upgrading was a nightmare.
Luckily, we quickly stopped doing that, but the idea that things were easier back then is because people learned from what we were doing. In 20 years, people will talk about how easy it was to make things in 2022.