History of the Web: Part 1
Hey Technical Friends! It's been a while since I wrote anything. 2020 was well, 2020. Anyway, I started working at Bluecore! I've been tasked with leading frontend. As a result, I've been teaching a whole lot of people about the web.
If you didn't know, I've been toying with the web for over twenty years now. I started as a kid sometime around the year 2000. I remember learning about HTML 4 when it was brand new. As a teenager, I built websites for local businesses.
As I get ramped up on a new job, I keep thinking about the sheer number of tools we take the time to configure. I've been writing proposals for frontend architecture and laying out a vision for a north star.
In the process of this, I've realized how important all this context on the web is. Knowing where we came from can help us figure out where we should go. It's also a mountain of technical debt, and we're collectively building on top of it.
Forgive me if I skip the wonderful stories of Macromedia Flash, Java in the browser, or whatever other detour you can think of. While those were important to development of the web, most of us will never run into them again.
