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.)
Jul 31, 2022 · 5:47 AM UTC
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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