Let's Web Dev Like It's 1999! with Ben Ilegbodu
summary
View-source today shows linting, transpilation, obfuscation, minification and bundling; two decades ago sites use FTP, hit counters (reaching tens of thousands), fixed navigation via frameset layout, and pixel-perfect spacing with the spacer GIF. Rounded corners come from sliced images in 3x3 tables, debugging is only alert debugging until Firebug arrives in 2006, and production deployment is manual. Modern builds use Gatsby, React, Redux, GraphQL, Webpack and Babel plus Git and CI to automate tests and deploy.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 4:11First Programming Language I Ever Learned Was Basic
- 11:53Berkeley Coding Bootcamp
- 13:48Frame Sets
- 18:33Css Grid
- 21:41Non-Breaking Space Entity
- 25:10Internet Connection Speeds
- 32:48Firebug
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