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Geocities and Angelfire are how I learned to program for the web. Amazing how much of the fundamentals of the web are still exactly the same as they were back t

Geocities and Angelfire are how I learned to program for the web. Amazing how much of the fundamentals of the web are still exactly the same as they were back then (90s). Just with a lot more layers of libraries today.

giantrobot 1y ago
A great thing about the Web is it can still be programmed just like it was thirty years ago. Unless you actually need an application a lot of web tooling and libraries are a waste of time. It's a great medium for actual documents.
- spennant 1y ago
  What? No love for Perl scripts in cgi-bin/ ?
  - giantrobot 1y ago
    In today's world of stupidly fast CPUs and IO a CGI program can be surprisingly performant and effective.
- soneil 1y ago
  The part that really feels different to me, is that I'm not sure that a 12yo equivalent of myself would get far with View Source anymore. I think that was my single greatest resource, and on a huge majority of sites it won't get you far anymore.
  - camcil 1y ago
    Being able to paste source into early version of Dreamweaver really made things "click" for me. Image maps, IFrames, and SSI really set you apart. Ah, thems were the days.