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We weren't web developers back then, we were webmasters
by mpclark 13y ago
We weren't web developers back then, we were webmasters
- gaius 13y agoWell the postmaster looked after sendmail, that being the old word for the man in charge of the post office. The hostmaster looked after DNS because it rhymed, and they needed a word for the guy who looked after the website. It was a very different meaning from today's "rockstar ninja".
- snorkel 13y agoAnd if you ever ran into an error message on the web you would just contact the webmaster. Problem solved.
- studio816 13y agoand we didn't build a website, we built a homepage.
- furyofantares 13y agoI thought homepage was just whatever page you had your browser set to start up on. And then some of us built personal home pages that had all the links we cared about on them. And then one of us built Personal Home Pages.
- mattgreenrocks 13y agoAnd even if it had CGI, it still wasn't a web app.
- themodelplumber 13y agoFunny. The term is still in use; I think it's usually meant to imply a deeper level of ownership, a la sysadmin. A few times a year people contact me saying they need a webmaster, and the way they describe their needs, I wouldn't say that "developer" really covers it.
- tracker1 13y agoTo me, the term dev-ops is probably more accurate these days.
- oneeyedpigeon 13y agoWebmaster in a Nutshell [1] was our bible! [1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565923256.do http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565923256.do
- yogo 13y agoI think only porn sites use that term these days :D