[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“The history of the World Wide Web may be short, but its virtual
landscape is already littered with scads of digital dross. The
tarnished logos of so many failed dot-coms are strewn to and fro,
discarded (or repossessed) servers sit idle, collecting dust, and
almost everyone from Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley has a tall
tale to tell. ‘Why, when I was just a lad, we didn’t have fancy
WYSIWYG editors. We hand-coded our HTML, and we liked it! Ah, those
were the days of baud, boy!’“Thankfully, much has changed from those heady times of the
mid-1990s. Designers have fancy tools to create Web sites, as do
developers…”