I mean even with FrontPage you at least had some direct correlation with the output HTML (aside from the extra cruft it'd add), versus this present day of people that call themselves web designers that don't even know what HTML/CSS even is, and scoff at the idea of ever learning any of it. Or those that cannot solve anything without some framework to 'think' for them.
I started poking around with HTML when I was like 9 years old, using a site builder program that was preinstalled on some early WinXP-era HP prebuilt, that tries to funnel you into using Tripod/Lycos as a hosting provider at the time.
The difference is that I grew up and I always seeked out new things to learn, and to expand deeper into learning anything I can in any of it. Meanwhile most of this damn present-day 'web design/dev' industry is people still riding around with toddler training wheels, solely to stay within their comforts, and they somehow manage to be taken seriously.
There's another local that is trying to run a webhosting company (that they bought out), effectively treating it like no more than a free money machine, and they don't even want to try running a homelab server to try to learn any entry-level Linux sysadmin stuff. It's so demoralizing when this is all I'm surrounded with.
arcanicanis
npub1pm…wd4ts
2025-04-24 03:36:37 UTC
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