I Remember When
May 20, 2008 12:00 AM
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Just a trip down memory lane. Enjoy and add your own memories.
I remember when:
- $20 / Hour sounded like a lot of money
- DBML was replaced by CFML
- 216 colors of mostly nasty yellow, green and blue
- A REALLY expensive TV was $500
- Perl was the most popular way to write 'back end' code for a website.
- Web hosting was local and profitable
- Your ISP lived nearby
- ASP became the most popular solution
- IHTML was packaged with Website Pro (or something like that)
- Homesite was for still for sale
- Spam was funny
- Online Journals were just called online journals and nobody cared about traffic and readership
- A splash page was 'hot'
- Newspapers still mattered
- Cable news still mattered
- Viruses just tried to destroy your computer rather than take it over
- All of my clients sent me email one day saying "I Love You"
- Ruby On Rails was thought to be perfect
- I weighed 20 pounds less and had more hair
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I remember:
- cracking protections for 8bit games on ZX Spectrum to copy them from tape to floppy;
- the Michelangelo virus (nastiest virus of 1991);
- using email from command line on an Unix System V over a 2400 bps modem and thinking how cool it was;
- IMDB over email (look up IMDB history);
- upgrading from Netscape 2 to Netscape 3, the best browser on the planet;
- Flash 2 (vector animation and sound at 1/10 the size of a gif);
- discussing with Bruce Sterling about hacking, when no one was afraid of spam;
- seeing the first flash site (Gabocorp - you can do that that in flash???);
- having my mind blown by Dreamweaver 1 - an editor that finally doesn't mess your code.
- 6 floppy disks for Word Perfect (double sided) cuz I had no HD
- The first site I saw with graphics. I think it was Coke.
- emacs for email and HTML
- copying Ultima 4 and playing it at the library on their Apple.
- logging onto a BBS from my electric typewriter at 900bps
- playing Oregon Trail in school (why?) and seeing it stop at my home town in game
When you could download Homesite as shareware from Nick's site.
When Spry was not a JS library but instead the makers of "Internet In A Box" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_a_Box) - I still have my Mosiac CD somewhere.
When I typed for hours on end only to have the backup cassette tape on my C64 break and loose everything.
When my site on the web was just called "my site on the web" and not a "blog".
Tables nested in tables nested in tables nested in tables nested in tables nested in tables nested in tables nested in tables nested in tables nested in tables nested in tables nested in tables
to pad text on the left.
Now add <cfmail> to that form.