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0 pointstwistedpair12y ago0 comments

"HTML was a new technology at the time"

Really? I recall my personal roadkill website I had back in 1996 as a 6th grader. Picked up an HTML manual at the library when they still had card catalogs. Nothing too hard about it at all and Dreamweaver and Photoshop made it a snap if you were ignorant of markup.

It was a bubble. Too bad I was learning about Earth Science while people were making frivolous dollars.

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pfranz12y ago· 3 in thread

DreamWeaver 1.0 wasn't released until December of '97 [1] and in November '96 Photoshop just released 4.0 [2], the first version with Layers, it still only had 1 undo, and text was rasterized (you couldn't edit it). FrontPage wasn't even released until around '96.

Most of the websites I remember from that period had a lot of cut and paste graphics (Photoshop was expensive, has a learning curve, and harder to use than today) so I'm sure custom graphics were expensive and people charged a high rate (with lower productivity). I can't remember any popular WYSIWYG authoring software prior to DreamWeaver/FrontPage. I would guess most were hand-written--which, as you know isn't hard, but the tools were a lot less refined and harder to find out about back then.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamweaver#History [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop_version_history...

whistlerbrk12y ago

It was Allaire Homesite before then

vanadium12y ago

No, no it wasn't. HomeSite existed as a separate product well into the 2000s, although stagnant as all get-out as the competition trounced it: http://www.adobe.com/products/homesite/

I still remember owning Dreamweaver 1.0 and HomeSite simultaneously back in late '97.

rsl712y ago

surely you remember HoTMetaL..

andrevan12y ago

I actually made money in the mid 90s making websites for people and I was born in 1989. I made websites for local teachers and the middle school. I had lots of walking around money as a kid in high school because I had a recurring payment from work that had begun in 2001 at the height of the dotcom era.

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