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POV: You just got your first webmaster job in the 90s

1y 2mon ago by lemmy.world/u/arotrios in programminghumor

It was really all about building super complicated pages with <table><tr><td><img src="x"></td><td colspan=2><img src="y"></td></tr></table> stuff before CSS

This is why my pirated copy of Dreamweaver was my most prized possession for nearly a decade.

Dreamweaver was the shit back then.

It isn't anymore? I still use it. What should I be using instead?

It was FrontPage for me back in the day

0xDEADBEEF

0xB00B5

please, put that behind an NSFW tag, its too naughty!!

<nsfw>0xB00B5</nsfw>

That's a nice dark-ish shade of red

I was on a train and everyone started furiously masterbating

Cafe babe

<blink>NO!</blink>

<marquee>YES!</marquee>

Tracker users be like...

Not only do I speak it, I can spell it.

I spent so long working with protocols over RS232 that hex and binary operators became like a second language.

I remember a grad student was doing some frontend work on it around 2015 and it blew his mind that we'd store 8 bools in a byte and call it a "status flag".

57 68 61 74 3F

In concept sure, in practice probably in speaking??? Why do you need to understand a base 16? Greetings good merchant, may I buy #1A Bananas?

Took me half a minuite of thinking... You are asking for 26(Base10) Bananas, right?

pov you bought a gameshark but don't have internet to get new codes