It is the true teacher who leaves the class knowing they have learned the most.
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If you were around for those years, you might remember when XHTML and how Web Review (my fault, yes lol) went forward with it for our markup, served as text/html at that time. At any rate, I did manage to dig up a lot of stuff that is really pretty cool or "WTF?" depending. ;)
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I upset some colleagues with my attitude, and others agreed, but i did predict it would not make it the year. And I was correct, it all fell down, sad to say. BUT the work we did was so important to the emerging "web 2.0". Sadly, it's gone now mostly, remnants are snapshots.
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We then went through about 2002 with a lot of fun, hard work, and big changes. It was suggested by an external marketing firm to change Web Techniques title to The New Architect to be inclusive of the emerging mobile/device web. I felt changing that brand would be unwise.
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That process lasted for about six months, after which I moved to CMP as Executive Editor of Web Review. What a great crew, all. Truly a thrill and an opportunity to actually use new languages and try different CMS ideas, as well as growing a great conference, WebShow!
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Our offices were in San Francisco. I was already working as Contributing Editor and Columnist to Web Techniques, and was offered to work as interim managing editor with @Derrick_Story as managing editors as Web Review was sold. O'Reilly had an own-grown Perl based CMS. Cool, huh?
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Again, a situation where all kinds of very interesting, kind and wonderful folks began to coalesce into an extended group of content creators from print to web to a multi-city event with the WebShows. CMP Media bought it all up, and it was an incredible time of my life at least!
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Miller-Freeman published the print magazine originally titled "Web Techniques" and had a hand in early webshow conference, which was quite a big deal then! Web Review was Dale Dougherty's web mag from Songline Studios. It was home to CSS's @meyerweb original style compat charts.
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So going back and reconstructing the arc of Web 1.0 ad Web 2.0 has been a big part of what I have wanted to do for my book as well as history, especially rise of Web Standards, Open Web, and three very important, influential project from Miller Freeman and @OReillyMedia.
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Crazy deep into the Wayback Machine, which of course was not meant to ever exist - URLs should have stayed that way, many factors didn't lend to that, including self-destruction of sites and blogs just as artists will set fire to their own paintings (burned a lot of my stuff.)
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As I age I feel my purpose is waning it sucks but I do involved despite being 100% disabled and 9 years expected terminal death. one. I care about history I was taught to learn and question it too. Any ideas you have would be wonderful to hear thank you so much for listening.🌎
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This is what I have left I have a life that I had no idea what happened and it was wonderful and I'm grateful for all of that and grateful to all of you for keeping me alive so long so why not remember us or are we just not worth it? Maybe we're not philosophically speaking.
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, my point is to find a better way especially as we're becoming such a huge industry to acknowledge as many people's work as we can that is influential. Is it me who feels I want to leave something Worthy or is that just a fleeting part of life couldn't have kids lost my husband.
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I wonder if we don't need some kind of organization or Coalition of women Professionals in the industry who have made significant contributions and continue to do so if we're still able. I just hate seeing such hard work and progress. I'm not here to criticize at all not my point
Rachel Andrew has done great work on this Jay Hoffman as well and there are still huge gaps I'm working the best I can in my limits and capacity at this point to write a new book as well as look at why these problems persist. So many women and such good people and such hard work?
I love the work so far and I see Christina and Dana. Are we not helping be our own worst enemies perhaps I know I never advocated for myself to make as much as the guys I didn't know it was supposed to I didn't know they even fought for more money or resources I really did not.
Shelley Powers was technical from the start and I was frankly intimidated by her intelligence at that time. Dori Smith was also highly technical in scripting in JavaScript specifically early on and it's more complex as more and more women came into the field.
I apologize I use text to speech input on my Android and it's not wonderful. Laura Lemay was vilified despite having an incredibly good book that changed the course of popular understanding of HTML in its early days. Lynda is an icon of design and education for designers.
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Humans actually were the first computers and guess what we were the ones who really were influential until a certain point. Sir Tim berners Lee's mother was an early computer scientist and that matters. This is going on forever and it's really disheartening.
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It's very hard to tell these stories in the details and I am frustrated and I just spent the last week digging up the entire history of the transition between what we know is web 10 now and Web 2.0. We've lost a lot of research documentation or never had it I understand that
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