5 ms·

Whatever Happened to Webmonkey.com?

43 points by richtr 13y ago

anishkothari 13y ago
I loved this site and the way the articles were written. Thanks to everyone (especially Scott) who contributed to it over the years.
- luxagraf 13y ago
  You're most welcome.
hobs 13y ago
Web monkey helped me a ton in my younger years. Thanks for all the fish!
justinator 13y ago
Using the Hotbot search engine to search through MonkeyJunkies mailing list entries (powered by Majordomo) to find articles teaching Netscape 4 only DHTML JavaScript posted on WebMonkey. 1998 indeed was a different time! Flash 4 was also really fun to muck about with.
eksith 13y ago
This is similar to what happened to TheWebMachine which hosted tutorials for Photoshop/illustrator and family and simple HTML and a bit of PHP (anyone remember Shoutboxes?). "Rough around the edges" is acceptable, IMO, if you're doing this for fun. But Wired is a business and without sufficient relevance, they probably thought it wasn't worth the effort to keep it active.
bonsaitree 13y ago
Remember the interview show HotSeat with John McChesney? Ah, the early days of Real Player.
smtddr 13y ago
Will be missed. Learned how to make my first homepage and how to use Flash 5. Remember this[1]? 1. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lAXqRCQ-u9U/Tk64A0f97II/AAAAAAAAAoI/LuxwnysQsyY/s1600/macromedia+flash+5.png http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lAXqRCQ-u9U/Tk64A0f97II/AAAAAAAAAo...
subsection1h 13y ago
So long, Webmonkey. Thanks a lot for the "Sizing Up the Browsers" article from 1999.[1] I referred to it every time I made a website that was best viewed in NN4 or IE5 at 800x600 resolution. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20000302050428/http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/41/index3a.html?tw=design http://web.archive.org/web/20000302050428/http://hotwired.ly...
joshmn 13y ago
Somewhat related: I was a huge fan of Webmonkey. I was also a regular at http://funkychickens.com http://funkychickens.com. They haven't updated it still. Awesome.
skybrian 13y ago
In case anyone is interested in some really old stuff, I recently dug up some of my articles from 1997 for a Wired/Hotwired reunion. Here's a doc with some pointers to the wayback machine: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIMWHlxe_SFilR2YTzGCAmlFHUvIW0-yKmWu5c2PQZM/edit#heading=h.hjrg0pn3ke75 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIMWHlxe_SFilR2YTzGCAmlF...
- luxagraf 13y ago
  That's awesome. I tried tweaking the URLs to see if I could find some of my first stuff (1999), but no dice.
jonathanleane 13y ago
Hard to believe they couldn't have made a go of this. The 'WebMonkey' brand has a decent amount of cred - why doesn't Wired try to transition it into a proven model, like the Envato 'Tuts' sites? I guess if they've already tried to resurrect it several times (as the article states) and still couldn't pull it off, I must be missing something. Still, seems a shame...

43 points by richtr 13y ago

I loved this site and the way the articles were written. Thanks to everyone (especially Scott) who contributed to it over the years.

luxagraf 13y ago
You're most welcome.

hobs 13y ago

Web monkey helped me a ton in my younger years. Thanks for all the fish!

justinator 13y ago

Using the Hotbot search engine to search through MonkeyJunkies mailing list entries (powered by Majordomo) to find articles teaching Netscape 4 only DHTML JavaScript posted on WebMonkey. 1998 indeed was a different time! Flash 4 was also really fun to muck about with.

eksith 13y ago

This is similar to what happened to TheWebMachine which hosted tutorials for Photoshop/illustrator and family and simple HTML and a bit of PHP (anyone remember Shoutboxes?). "Rough around the edges" is acceptable, IMO, if you're doing this for fun. But Wired is a business and without sufficient relevance, they probably thought it wasn't worth the effort to keep it active.

bonsaitree 13y ago

Remember the interview show HotSeat with John McChesney? Ah, the early days of Real Player.

smtddr 13y ago

Will be missed. Learned how to make my first homepage and how to use Flash 5. Remember this[1]? 1. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lAXqRCQ-u9U/Tk64A0f97II/AAAAAAAAAoI/LuxwnysQsyY/s1600/macromedia+flash+5.png http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lAXqRCQ-u9U/Tk64A0f97II/AAAAAAAAAo...

subsection1h 13y ago

So long, Webmonkey. Thanks a lot for the "Sizing Up the Browsers" article from 1999.[1] I referred to it every time I made a website that was best viewed in NN4 or IE5 at 800x600 resolution. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20000302050428/http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/41/index3a.html?tw=design http://web.archive.org/web/20000302050428/http://hotwired.ly...

joshmn 13y ago

Somewhat related: I was a huge fan of Webmonkey. I was also a regular at http://funkychickens.com http://funkychickens.com. They haven't updated it still. Awesome.

skybrian 13y ago

In case anyone is interested in some really old stuff, I recently dug up some of my articles from 1997 for a Wired/Hotwired reunion. Here's a doc with some pointers to the wayback machine: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIMWHlxe_SFilR2YTzGCAmlFHUvIW0-yKmWu5c2PQZM/edit#heading=h.hjrg0pn3ke75 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIMWHlxe_SFilR2YTzGCAmlF...

luxagraf 13y ago
That's awesome. I tried tweaking the URLs to see if I could find some of my first stuff (1999), but no dice.

jonathanleane 13y ago

Hard to believe they couldn't have made a go of this. The 'WebMonkey' brand has a decent amount of cred - why doesn't Wired try to transition it into a proven model, like the Envato 'Tuts' sites? I guess if they've already tried to resurrect it several times (as the article states) and still couldn't pull it off, I must be missing something. Still, seems a shame...