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I worked at one of the first wave of web dev shops. And we also made CD-ROMs for our business clients. Line blurred. Because the kinds of CD-ROMs we produced ty
by syngrog66 2y ago
I worked at one of the first wave of web dev shops. And we also made CD-ROMs for our business clients. Line blurred. Because the kinds of CD-ROMs we produced typically had a direcrory of web-linked content on them. Like a website burned into plastic. An index page and lots of HTML and client-side JS, with embedded graphical image files. A good fit for catalogs, info archiving, educational resources or entertainment. Of course we also made live, Internet-exposed websites and web apps too. Server-side logic usually in Perl or C. Fuzzy memories of ColdFusion, and Macromedia Flash. The only web server we liked to use was Apache.
Our most famous client was a little old book publisher named O'Reilly. I forget if either we helped work on their first site, or if we just made some multimedia CD-ROM adaptations of some of their books. We did some work related to Larry Wall's camel book.