Homage to The CSS Zen Garden and the book that was a truly great co-author experience with Dave Shea. I learned so much from him and all the designers. Such progress for a declarative, meaningful, semantic, beautifully crafted #webdesign great years of optimism for us all it was.

I bought at least 5 copies of that book. Used it to evangelize Web Standards to F500 executives throughout New York. Had to keep buying copies because developers who borrowed it never wanted to give it back!!! A truly influential Web 1.0 text.

I'd call it at least foundational Web 1.5 or 2.0, because I remember those dark days circa 1995-2003 of tables and 1x1 transparent gifs because CSS either wasn't supported in enough browsers or it literally crashed them :/

Ah, for the year of Lynx...

I use lynx --dump with some extra parameters to this day. It is the best Web content retrieval tool (scraper). You raise the idea of a social network that only runs on lynx and w3m.