Definitely was interesting, and fun times for sure.
Microsoft with ASP, ActiveX and VBScript in pages. I also remember writing ISAPI extensions for IIS to handle searching backend systems. IIRC e-bay was the best known company that had an ISAPI extension at one point. I worked at a smaller company where we did it cause our systems were disconnected and we had to search custom databases.
Macromedia with dreamweaver & Flash & shockwave at one point (think that was a little later).
Java applets, ugh.
Splash pages, visitor counters.
ODBC, ADO, OLE DB... Connecting to databases was always about finding the right driver for your OS and DB version which depending on OS & DB could be a challenge.
Browser targeting was a major pain, splash/home pages telling you to only use IE or Netscape etc.
Microsoft with ASP, ActiveX and VBScript in pages. I also remember writing ISAPI extensions for IIS to handle searching backend systems. IIRC e-bay was the best known company that had an ISAPI extension at one point. I worked at a smaller company where we did it cause our systems were disconnected and we had to search custom databases.
Macromedia with dreamweaver & Flash & shockwave at one point (think that was a little later).
Java applets, ugh.
Splash pages, visitor counters.
ODBC, ADO, OLE DB... Connecting to databases was always about finding the right driver for your OS and DB version which depending on OS & DB could be a challenge.
Browser targeting was a major pain, splash/home pages telling you to only use IE or Netscape etc.