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?

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!

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.

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.

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. ;)

Who remembers and or used these resources, and if so, can you give some insight into your own participation, memories, and what you think about that time in Web history? I'd love to see that time documented. Photo is all Web Review editors ever! Guess who's in it if you can see!

Had xHTML survived, the web would be a much better place today. People would care about the markup their tools vomit

I think the web itself yes as for Mobile and other devices maybe not so much I think we've seen that the expansion was far beyond what we could have imagined so I'm still on the fence with that but I'm pretty convinced we've overdone everything because of that and it's a problem!

I'm taking exclusively web here (mobile or desktop web I treat them both as the same) I don't know about other things enough to cast an opinion. Had a strict markup standard ruled things we wouldn't be in suck an accessibility and usability hell as we are now If people had ...

to care about semantic, they'll probably wonder as to why was that. And then learn about that. Instead of that most don't care about anything else that "it works on my copy of chrome" What do you mean no mouse? what kind of psycho doesn't have a mouse?...