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DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab @djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology

The first few cohorts to learn web development did so by looking to the web as an open book of examples.

I mourn the loss of that type of learning for the current cohorts.

I cringe when I think that it's been considered an acceptable loss in a chase for performance when we have so very much more compute power and network throughput going around than we did then.

It's an absolute shame.

Sandro Hawke @sandhawke@mastodon.social

@djsundog Yes, but...
Well, view source on mastodon.social isn't going to tell you much, it's true, but looking at the repo sure will. So much great and powerful code, including the code behind websites, is out there to learn from now. We (largely) lost view-source, but we got a web full of great resources for learning the craft. Plus, do you remember the state of web page debugging in the 90s?

Maiyannah Bishop @maiyannah@plateia.org
@sandhawke @djsundog Before you go any further on this topic let me ask you: how do you get every browser to center a simple line of text in 15 characters or less?
Michael @drjeats

@maiyannah @sandhawke @djsundog I could do it in 0 typed characters in earlier web days: FrontPage/Dreamweaver! This also produced barely readable HTML 😜

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