I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)

Back in the early 2000's, I taught "computers" to a bunch of kids in DC. I first started off with how a computer work; IO, CPU, storage and their eyes glazed over. I quickly ditched that topic and went right to building a web page. Taught them a few HTML tags and they instantly became "webmasters". They were so thrilled. They could create blinking text, could make all the fonts pink. All just by moving around some simple text in…

I love nostalgia posts. I think all of us who were "webmasters" all have a differed "what we are now", but if everything didn't start this way for me, I don't think I'd be doing what I am doing today regardless. I remember making a ball bounce in Flash with some elasticity and people wanted it on their website no matter what their website was about. The 90's were such strange times. "Can you put that bouncing ball on my…

That's so fucking true. Today, we have static site generators just to be able to use Markdown instead of HTML and a crazy docker construct to do a solution which any of-shelve frameset could do in the 90s. You are proud of your tech stack? We fucking had no tech stack in the 90s and it was great because we could fucking express ourselves without having to deal with reactive scripts, CDNs, sourcemaps, or whatever. And oh yes, we had…