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OT. How it all started

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
April 9, 2017
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Just a nice video if you have 30 mins to kill. Those that have been there, done it, and have been around long enough will relate to it and maybe have been part of it:

Jeffrey Zeldman 20 years of Web Design and Community - YouTube

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pziecina

Legend

Do you two mind, you are both making me feel my age.

I watched the video, and realised just how long i have been using the internet, as i go back to the days of terminal emulators and bulletin boards. Using a company computer and a modem that you actually had to place the telephone reciever into a cradel, long before the www was created.

It was mainly used for exchange of ideas, and reading reaserch data, which was the original purpouse, and html was born of the requirement to view and format that info in a more readable way. My original website was to publish reaserch findings, which i removed the following day, as it did not work as i had thought. I'm not even certain if the original 'browser' we used even had a name.

The mosaic browser was i think what made the web become popular, as the ability to insert an image changed everything.

It always makes me laugh when i see people talking about the avarage web users age, and developers being in their mid 30's. They have forgotton i think that the age of the first web users was 25-55 back then, and we did not stop using and developing for the web just because everyone thought it was something new, and just for the young.

My first use of css for layouts, was in 1998.

Rob Hecker2

Legend

This is fun.

My first modem attached to a dial phone with suction cups. This allowed me to work from my home in rural Marin for the magazines I worked for in San Francisco. I had to call ahead to let someone in the magazine office know I was going to send some text to them. we would fiddle with the process for almost an hour in order to magically deliver a 2000 word article over the phone line.

Then I bought a 1200 baud modem, which was cutting edge. It allowed me to connect to University computer networks . Still a few years before the birth of the web. There was some interesting material on the internet, but you had to know some UNIX commands to access it. It was fascinating that there was anything online.

I built my first website when the publisher I worked for paid a lot of money to have a website built, and got completely burned. I said I thought I could do it with Frontpage, this cool new software from Microsoft.

pziecina

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https://forums.adobe.com/people/Rob+Hecker2 wrote
This is fun.
My first modem attached to a dial phone with suction cups. This allowed me to work from my home in rural Marin for the magazines I worked for in San Francisco. I had to call ahead to let someone in the magazine office know I was going to send some text to them. we would fiddle with the process for almost an hour in order to magically deliver a 2000 word article over the phone line.

Glad to know it was not just me that had problems getting that set up to work.

I would say, "the good old days", LOL

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

That's was really great!.

If not for Jeffrey and A List Apart, I would have given up on this crazy, mixed-up profession.

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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osgood_Author

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https://forums.adobe.com/people/Nancy+OShea wrote
That's was really great!.
If not for Jeffrey and A List Apart, I would have given up on this crazy, mixed-up profession.
Nancy

Yeah, how times fly........... I must have been doing this longer than I think. I actually don't remember Mosaic browser though but how primitive and crude an environment is was back then to where we are today.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

I remember those days.

Lynx was much worse -- an early text only browser. NCSA Mosaic seemed advanced until Netscape 2 came out. And then the browsers wars between IE and Netscape began.

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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