I’m So Old: Web Edition

Time could be a humorous factor. I nonetheless keep in mind discovering HTML, CSS, and JavaScript coding. I nonetheless keep in mind my first school programming course. I nonetheless keep in mind my first day at my first coding job, then my first day at my second coding job, after which my first day at Mozilla. I nonetheless keep in mind my first day coding for MetaMask. This yr marks my twentieth yr as an expert software program engineer and it is occurred within the blink of an eye fixed.

Each now and again I’ll make an previous programming reference to a a lot youthful engineer after which understand they do not know what I am speaking about.

I am so previous…

Webpage layouts have been being achieved with <desk>s and this new “CSS float” property was turning into the brand new normal
Rounded corners have been achieved by way of photographs and VML hacks for Web Explorer
FTP was one of the best ways to add web sites adjustments
SVN and copying its trunk was one of the best versioning device
alert and verify have been the usual for “modals”
Firebug was one of the best debugging device out there
The “normal” for getting movies to play correctly was discovering the suitable codec to put in
ActionScript data was as worthwhile as JavaScript data
Dreamweaver was greatest in school textual content editor and design device
XML was the way forward for knowledge buildings
Cellular-first? Cellular did not exist
Reactive navigation? How about Java Applets…
…and even totally different <img src=""> upon mouseover and mouseleave!
Need to code a desktop app with internet tech? Attempt Adobe Air!
NPM stood for “not performant, man”
Voting on a ballot meant the web page would refresh
“Social media” meant HotOrNot.com
The love sound of the online was a 56k modem connection purrrrr
Disabling right-click enforced picture safety
Bitmap (.bmp) was a viable picture format
JavaScript had a competitor known as JScript
SpyJax’ing allow you to detect the place your person had been
Cookies have been the top of person monitoring
Social media wall? It is known as a “guestbook”…
…and a associates checklist? It is known as a “internet ring’
Search engine marketing was spamming the <title> with key phrases=

Whew, these the place the times. How previous are you in internet?

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