Let’s web dev like it’s 1999!
summary
Shows a working GeoCities-era site updated via FTP updates, with a Comic Sans Paint-made logo, a hit counter that claims tens of thousands, and pages built from framesets and table layouts; demonstrates how spacing was done with a 1x1 spacer gif to force a 40px indent and how the font tag and marquee-era hacks were used. Explains the debugging leap when Firebug appears, and contrasts those exact snippets with modern CSS Grid and build tooling.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:28Question
- 1:32Workout
- 2:34About me
- 4:57Basic Guru Online
- 7:21Internet Poll
- 8:01Yahoo
- 8:22Navigation
- 8:56Framesets
- 9:42Layout
- 10:11Frames
- 13:02Frame Sets
- 13:48CSS Grid
- 14:48spacer gif
- 15:54nonbreaking spaces
- 16:20CSS
- 16:32What could we do
- 17:34Screw with links
- 18:40CSS is easy
- 19:14No easy way to know
- 20:22Firebug
- 21:43Dev tooling
- 24:08Impostor syndrome
