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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(Later that summer, Netscape Navigator Gold would come to support webpages having background colors. Which seems inconceivably long ago now)
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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..
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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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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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