Come shake your cane with me, o ye veterans of 90’s Web development, and read Zach Holman’s hilarious ode to 1×1 spacer GIFs, DHTML, the BLINK tag, and more. Now, excuse me while I go repeat the word “DeBabelizer” in front of a darkened mirror. (Oh yeah, made your brain hurt for a sec, didn’t I? Here, I’ll do it again: GifBuilder. JPEGView. Man, I can do this for days.)
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Our product of the time feature one of my favorite Easter eggs: If the spell checker caught you using the word “FrontPage”, it flagged it as an error and suggested the correct spelling: “PageMill”
[Awesome. 🙂 I was so intrigued to move out here & discover the existence of Page Mill Road. —J.]
I occasionally use google’s usenet archive to revisit my posts from the early ’90s. One that repeatedly amuses/horrifies me is a request for help I sent out in 1994 “someone is offering to pay me to make a website for them, but I’m probably going to say no. Do you think there is career potential for making websites for other people?”
Page Mill Road was there long before the ’90’s. I remember going to anti-war protests there a million years ago.
[Oh, I know, and it turns out that the app wasn’t named after the road. —J.]