• tetris11@lemmy.world
    921·
    6 days ago

    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.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      It’s overkill for static sites, but credit should be given to JSX for being a decent way to create DOM nodes dynamicly. You can use a JSX transformer without using React, too.

  • Kryptenx@lemmy.world
    32·
    6 days ago

    Literally why I started HTML and then into programming. Had to do those sick absolute position overlays on the club pages of Neopets.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
      10·
      6 days ago

      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

        • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
          5·
          6 days ago

          I made an entire syllabus for my high school using on mouse over effects and drop downs with course descriptions, prerequisites and mappings for all future courses/paths. That was around 2005 or 2006. I didnt bother with Dreamweaver because how frustrating it was. Wrote the entire thing by hand using notepad. I don’t even think I did it for a grade, it was just me being so sick of us not having a proper syllabus that you could access online. Just printed copies that would say you need to have this prerequisite, but it didn’t list what page that other course was on so you had to flip around all over to find it and then figure out what prerequisites were needed there. Got so frustrated I just made my own.

          When we were going to move into a new place a year later or so my girlfriend at the time and I were trying to figure out what furniture we wanted or how we would want to situate things to fit in our new place. We couldn’t visualize what each other were saying well and know if desks/dressers what not would fit where we wanted. Thus I opened my old web pages, took the blueprint map for the apartment and created a quick drag and drop web page where you could take each item with a name on it and drag it into rooms, place them all where we wanted and then she could play with it and see what didn’t fit side by side due to size, and screen shot what she liked/didn’t like. Having previous projects put together and being able to just copy previous scripts, probably took me 45 mins to throw together. Settled all issues of “that probably won’t fit” and let her play with it when I was at work.

          Overkill, possibly… but it was fun at the time (The syllabus took a long ass time, but that had intentions of the school being able to use it off their website to allow students/parents help plan their own futures)

  • ericbomb@lemmy.world
    26·
    6 days ago

    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

  • LittleBorat3@lemmy.world
    14·
    6 days ago

    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.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      There should be pride in being self taught. Although it’s hard to do it hard right (as in: do your own research).

  • ClipperDefiance@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    I learned everything I know from CSShelp the Kougra. It’s a shame that her page has since been replaced with the species default. It was such a great resource.