zeldman

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As a web designer in the 90s and 00s, I envied my colleagues who did their work in Flash. They produced far more exciting spectacles than I could create via then-current HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—tools that were fairly limited and inconsistently supported at the time. 🧵 1/2

August 11, 2025 at 3:44:53 PM

But my HTML websites from back then still work beautifully today, whereas my pals’ masterpieces can only be experienced on old computers running obsolete OSes, browsers, and plug-ins. So, there’s that. Better to have bread for 100 years than cake for 5 minutes. 2/2

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What kind of cake? 😆

Every once in a while I get a hankering to reminisce and look at my old site on IA. It used hangs head in shame an image map for the navigation. All the hand-coded HTML posts still load fine though.It's a hoot!

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randomly, still flashing back to my old talk about the once and future web from aeons ago, where i touch on those flash days youtu.be/AHtTpyhMqH0?t=1243 (though the recording quality of that talk is atrocious)

Patrick H. Lauke: The once and future web - Front Row Conference Krakow 20.10.2011 - Patrick H. Lauke: The once and future web - Front Row Conference Krakow 20.10.2011

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Patrick H. Lauke: The once and future web - Front Row Conference Krakow 20.10.2011
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My “simple calendar” page, which uses document.write() still works, and the simplified blackjack game does too. (Thanks for the images for the face cards, Jeffrey!)

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well, this was the whole idea and it prroved to work perfectly. This is the web we deserve, the web we should harness again.
We have so much available today in the HTML realm, more people should start their own.
How the early blogs and sites started this thing called internet.

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