My earliest experiences of computer networking were due to wanting to host multiplayer gaming sessions with friends. Things did not "just work" back then.
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I coded HTML for the first time in 2002. So I have 22 years experience. Anyone want to see my ASCII art?
Anyone want to see my ASCII art?
Yes
Here is an old archive that never got updated after I got my own domain. https://asciipr0n.com/fp/
Thats dope
Very nice.
How much?
Very
Literally why I started HTML and then into programming. Had to do those sick absolute position overlays on the club pages of Neopets.
Myspace also got a number of people playing with HTML and CSS if I remember correctly. It's been years. Not sure CSS is actually even used anymore. I enjoyed web design classes back in the 2000s. Macromedia still owned Dreamweaver and it wasn't all that great, so I could still do better by hand. I haven't played around with any of it in years now, but I assume those programs have GUIs that blow away anything that can be written in notepad like back then.
If you've never trouble shot 100 pages of JavaScript in notepad because you didn't have access to other tools, you haven't had "fun" before. ...fucking nightmare. Find out you put an extra space somewhere.
The better you got though you'd narrow down finding those errors quickly, and then eventually find out a fucking free program will color code the shit and tell you to look at line 232 because it doesn't make sense
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I don't know why she's nervous, she clearly knew the spec well and didn't have to resort to modern abstraction frameworks to serve a simple static site.
And she did it all in notepad
yeah, but if you don't use wordpress to serve 3 static webpages, how will you get repeated business when it doesn't get hacked in 3 years?
You obviously include a busy loop in JavaScript that takes exponentially more time each year. Then every few years you change the base year
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The absolute horseshit that things like Facebook consist of make me wonder if half the people who work on it have even made an HTML page from scratch.
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Yeah, that's how HTML is learnt. Never had to look back at HTML afterwards
The old internet was a wonderful place for learning.
And pain Olympics, but my rose coloured glasses are blocking that out right now.
Don't apologize. That pain is exactly why millennials are so much more tech literate than boomers and gen Alpha.
don’t click that link! It could be a shitty song on Youtube
Zoomers
don’t click that link, if you’re lucky it’s just gay porn and we don’t have to format the drives
Millennials
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Okay but that is adorable and true XD
The old internet taught us so many random skills. I couldn't type on a keyboard for jack until I got into MMO's back in the day, because it was pre voice comms. So I learned to type faster so I would struggle less XD
MMOs are the reasons that my typing style involves my left hand covering 60-70% of the keyboard and my right hand getting the remaining 30-40% that I can't easily reach.
Only need to bring in the mouse hand of absolutely necessary!
IRC and ICQ chat rooms here. Then MMOs after. I don't type correctly(as in, finger positions etc), but I do type quickly.
UGH you're just like my sister then! See I played runescape after taking a typing class in elementary school, so in class I got like 5 wpm, then over a summer of doing nothing but playing rune scape whenever I was able (usually by staying up late after everyone went to sleep) I got up to 25, and it just kept getting faster over the years as I kept playing other online game.
My older sisters didn't have typing classes before they started doing IM chat rooms and stuff though. So my sister somehow types at 90 WPM by doing this cursed 2 finger chicken peck thing. She types way faster than me by just using 2 fingers on each hand and it always confuses the heck outta me.
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<marquee>cool cool cool</marquee>
welcome to my homepage
<img>under_construction.gif</img>
<embed SRC="linkinpark_numb.midi" hidden=true autostart=true loop=1>
That's the extent I remember from grade school, had to make a homepage in like grade 5 and literally everyone had flaming text, crappy gifs, and horrible midi songs. Computer lab must have been a blast for the teachers.
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Is she sweating because she's insecure about her knowledge, or is she sweating because she fears a followup question into WHAT she did?
I'm an open book when it comes to stuff like that. I'd 100% tell a prospective employer that an old goofy anime website was what kicked off my web dev career.
I'm not gonna show my boss my fan fiction.
She’s sweating because she has a disorder that makes her sweat at random moments. Everyone always reads too much into it.
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For those interested Neocities is a modern equivalent. The homepage has some featured pages linked you can browse if you are looking to kill time.
Got my first computer in 92 so I have 35 years of experience.
I played a shitty port of Street fighter 2 on it an Lucas arts adventures
When can I start, work is a joke to me and I can figure anything out quickly.
When can I start, work is a joke to me and I can figure anything out quickly.
Lol. As a hiring manager, I've hired people who am said almost exactly this, as long as they had a public project portfolio that provided evidence to back up the claim.
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Html it self hasn't really changed much.
I feel personally attacked
Parts of my old AngelFire website is still archived. A horrible mess of Comic Sans, black backgrounds with lime green and dark red or purple text, animated gifs, auto-playing sounds, frames and pretty much any and all features of HTML, especially things you never really saw being used like blinking and color changing text that wasn't just an image.
Too bad none of the Klik'n'Play games I made and had uploaded there are able to be downloaded... I kinda want to be reminded exactly what the Pikachu virtual pet I made was like in all it's cringe glory. Though Nintendo would probably be sending an army of lawyers up my ass rn if it was.
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Master of all 22 elements
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