Let’s Web Dev Like It’s 1999!
summary
A nostalgic but technical tour that recreates how a personal site was built and deployed in 1999: a GeoCities site with Comic Sans and hit counter uploaded via FTP, a frame-based layout with target navigation that keeps header and nav from reloading, and layout achieved with one-pixel spacer GIFs instead of CSS. Fast-forwards to a modern stack (Gatsby, React, GraphQL, Material UI, webpack, Babel), explains which old tricks still work, and why Firebug and build tooling changed debugging and deployment.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and warm-up
- 3:18Speaker’s background and family
- 5:28Early programming on TI calculators
- 7:56First website on GeoCities
- 10:27Modern web development vs 1999
- 12:58Layout challenges with framesets
- 19:18Spacer GIFs and table layouts
- 22:50CSS and link styling in early 2000s
- 25:41JavaScript as a toy language
- 28:55Firebug and modern tooling
- 31:45Advice for new developers
- 33:53Closing and Q&A
