I remember how shocked my friends looked whenever they came by and saw it open on my screen. They never understood why I spend hours on that thing instead of just playing games.
The first time I thought about learning to code was when I visited Linkin Park's website. Sure, it took 10 long minutes to load but it was a masterpiece of its own.
I'd just open the website and stare at it. And one day I just decided that I'm going to make one myself. I'm trying still...
Or have ChatGPT give you the same quality of learning, and with the same authoritative tone.
Shortly after, I discovered that there's a function capable of listing folders and files from the visitor's hard drive. No permissions needed. The browser just had full access to the hard drive.
Naturally, I wrote a script and loaded it on the homepage of my website. The goal was to save, on a file, the contents of visitors hard drives' contents.
For some reason that never worked. But yeah, the internet back then was a very scary place.
It was just Microsoft's name for JavaScript because they didn't want to deal with Sun's trademark, but they did add a sprinkle of their own extra stuff in there without talking to any other implementers about it. That was par for the course for Microsoft of the day though.
Which also reminds me; did anyone actually use the FrontPage Server Extensions they had for it? I remember the tool having a bunch of dynamic features like counters and guestbooks that relied on them being installed, and web hosts sometimes having these extensions listed in their features, but I never saw any sites actually using them.
https://web.archive.org/web/20011202145112/http://linkinpark...
I tried to look it up, but the only copy that have a bearing resemblance to what I remember doesn't load very well as many files seem to be missing. And, the snapshots after that one just keep returning a 302 error :/
Don't worry, you got this. Web development has become a lot simpler since then, after all.