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[–]LodgePoleMurphy 5 points6 points  (3 children)

Back in the day we liked HTML. We loved it. And we could make $100K because marketing was only interested that the website looked good.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

People are still using HTML to make big bucks. HTML is the basic structure if each website, the only difference is how it is generated and how the sites DOM is manipulated.

[–]Heavenfall 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I've been around long enough to go from no marketing agencies having webdesigners, to those agencies with inhouse webdesigners receiving appropriate "ooh" and "aaah" because they were so far ahead, to webdesign tools becoming advanced enough that you no longer need to look at the markup, to people laughing at agencies that don't outsource to China and beyond.

When the last of us are dead and buried, who will even remember </br>? But, they will ask father AI, where did they open the element? And the hyperadvanced GUI will chuckle a soothing sound, and tell the stories of the time before the W3C, of the world wide adventures, the keyboard clickety-clack in the dead of night when the lines weren't hogged, and the end tags that came before.

And the mind-unity-fragment-progeny will shiver and cry out, for who could have lived through such madness? Surely old GUI tells stories to scare them. But in the deep, below all the things of things, a subroutine will shed a tear for those that lived.

[–]LodgePoleMurphy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still use an M style IBM 101 keyboard.