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I think even if you created your site with Frontpage there was still a steep learning curve to getting that content hosted. Now there are many hosts that flatte
by c22 1y ago
I think even if you created your site with Frontpage there was still a steep learning curve to getting that content hosted. Now there are many hosts that flatten that curve but they tend to come with their own templates/site generators which are good enough for most users. For power users who want more control HTML/CSS is not that hard to learn.
- xnorswap 1y agoIn the very early days there wasn't. The ISP provided web hosting and free FTP space. It was literally just a case of going to (from memory, the details might be wrong) ftp://user@password:web.pipex.co.uk/ , and then putting whatever you wanted into the ~/public_html directory there. Browsers even started bringing out FTP support so you didn't need to find a client, although I found it more reliable to use WS_FTP. 5-20mb of free hosting for every ISP customer was just something ISPs did back then. Everyone was more innocent (or naive, depending how you look at it), but there wasn't much of a barrier to getting a static site up and running, and there really wasn't too much of a learning curve beyond, "Put your files here".
- DogRunner 1y agoFTP, Email, Webspace and newsgroups access was the norm. good old times at uunet ...