[geeks] A little self-indulgence

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I will simply say I agree.


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From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
To: "Geeks" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 11:31 PM
Subject: [geeks] A little self-indulgence


> Back when the web was first starting to get big (1995), I was
> learning HTML to put up a small web page for my church.  I remember
> when HTML 2.0 was ratified.  I have fond memories of debugging a
> set of QA CGIs written in C on an Indy back at JJT in 1996.  About
> the only big-name company that didn't have a clue[1] about web
> design back then was Sun (remember the one big GIF homepages?).  I
> still do all my web-coding in a -text- editor, and still code
> against HTML 3.2 because 4.0 sucks planets through soda straws.  
> 
> I -=hate=- what the web has become.  You can't browse a decent
> percentage of "mainstream" sites without Microsloth Internet
> Exploder v9382.2 and Crapromedia FooBar v89 and Java$hit 4.2 and
> who knows what the hell else. Oh, and you need to resize your
> screen--no, wait, we can do that -for- you with ActiveX and
> DirectCrash and ... and ... and ...
> 
> And what the hell does <H1> mean again?  No, we'll -tell- you the
> point size of your fonts for headings, and don't you -dare- try to
> right-click on the page to adjust it, because we've Java$hat that
> out the window.  Oh, to hell with text, we'll just render the
> -whole- -damned- -page- in Flash! And, no, you -really- want -this-
> window to be the topmost, no -this- one! Whoopsie!  I meant
> bottommost.
> 
> And I'll be damned if you can even get in the front door without a
> thousand cookies shoved up your browser's arse, or download a
> measly file without a META-redirect page.  But, of course, that's
> becase everything on the web is an -application-, rather than a set
> of docs.
> 
> etc, etc, etc.
> 
> I could rant all day, and I just scored the perfect domain name in
> which to do it:
> 
>      webbastard.net
> 
> I'll happily provide forwarding email addresses and tertiary zones
> to whomever wants them, as soon as I get a decent pipe to the
> house. :)  
> 
> Yes, I already have two secondary domains (patschke.org for the
> family geneology stuff -- down at the moment, and celestrion.net
> for projects and random crap), and I detest the rapid consumption
> of the namespace, but I plan on putting this (like all my other
> zones) to good use.
> 
> And I will never own a .com, merely on principle.
> 
> --Jonathan
> [1] Back when clue meant: "it's simple, everyone can navigate it,
> and it 
>     -works-" rather than "<design expert> sez it looks swell."  I
> was 
>     fired from JJT over an argument with <sales manager> regarding
> this 
>     very point--never mind that our target audience consisted of
> engineers 
>     using Mosaic under X.
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