A Boeing employee taught me basic HTML at an ONR facility open house. She couldn't explain to me "but how do I make the text bold?" (1996)https://twitter.com/jergason/status/887688092710088704 …
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Omg: so you used to be able to make "animations" by having a series of body bgcolor tags. It would load each one with just enough delay..
Also, I'm not kidding, I used to read serious arguments about whether or not HTML should be in all caps at all times. And then the 4.0 spec!
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Who remembers DHTML? — HTML AND JavaScript??!?
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Also, that time when there were headlines about the genuine confusion about "Java" vs "JavaScript"? That actually happened, right?
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Hey, remember VRML ? ;P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
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Picturing myself in 50 years, stopping teenagers to ask—"is it still best practice to include a meta tag with which DTD your site uses?"
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I remember having to use 3.2 instead of 4 because of "backward compatibility"
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I remember serious, vitriolic, heartfelt battles about whether one should italicize with <em> or with <I>.
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oh no I remember that 
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Also when CSS ruined the good, simple way of making websites: using tables with the borders turned off.
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All of the sites I made in tables still look exactly the same Nothing I've ever made w/ CSS, etc looks the same after a few years
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Lets talk about XHTML2 and xforms.
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