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		allo37 on April 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An argument for a return to Web 1.0 Did it take an engineering degree? Of course not. But knowing how to write HTML and get it on the internet was harder than, say, sending a tweet is today. I might also just not be remembering all the crappy Geocities sites with perfect clarity :)

dolni on April 14, 2022 [–]

When I was ten years old (late 90s) I was able to publish a site using a WYSIWYG host of the time (Homestead).

It was crappy, of course, but it was something. And it was easy.

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