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What was webdev programming full-time look like in the 80s, 90 or early 2000's?
- herbst 3y agoI just recently remembered how much time we spent on optimizing for different devices. We had a Mac and iPhone and like 8 android phones just do we could check the website on different devices. If people even are still doing this they likely just use browserstack or something like this.
- fatnoah 3y agoFor me in the early 2000's, it meant having entirely separate codebases to support IE and Netacape. It also meant that building a web application with async data loading (XML from a REST service) was all done by hand. My favorite technical achievement at the time was a front end that allowed managing hierarchies of accounts. It was essentially a single page application and allowed dragging and dropping of things. One of the hardest parts of that to get right was duplicating and shadowing the elements you were dragging so you saw the actual stuff being moved, not just the default drag icon. Oh, and lots of Visual Basic on the back end.
- hacknewslogin 3y agoHere's an actual link to the post: https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/15zgy50/what_was_webdev_programming_fulltime_like_in_the/ https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/15zgy50/what_was_we...
- ryandetzel 3y agoFirst web dev job in early 2000s no version control (ftp the files around), no database (flat file csv), no testing (manually usually in prod), no ticket bug tracking, no prd/tdds, I'm amazed we had a working product people paid for.