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I'm 23 and was just getting started in web development as frames where becoming unpopular. It was amazing to read about a point in time where animated gifs and frames where amazing new technologies that made his life easier.

It helps me to see that maybe the things I find as very important technology-wise, might be just as futile as an animated gif.

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I remember thinking frames were the best thing for navigation because you only needed to keep the one file updated, I didnt even know about server side includes back then :) css came a few years later too.

I'm with you, sounds like the same order of events for me. I am still embarrassed about my heavy abuse of the php include() function.

I ended up doing it my own way using external javascripts :) it's amazing how you approach things when you are completely isolated from what everyone else is doing!

I remember when all my sites ended with .shtml and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

Do you also remember the days before Google? When we had to literally submit our sites to Yahoo's directory, etc.? Good old days :)

I used to think that meant it was secure (like https). I think I even gave a grade-school presentation on that, but no one knew better either.

Oh god I loved Server Side Includes. I ran a Tiberian Sun / Red Alert 2 site a years ago and had like 30-ish pages of content. Each had it's own navigation bar. Now imagine the time it took me update if I added a page or changed the navigation.

To make the long story short, I went to IRC (webmaster.com #ra2 - i think), people there introduced me to SSI. Then a few weeks later, they introduced me to Newspro (a few months/years later, it was renamed to Coranto).

Heh, I ran a Red Alert fan page back in the day too! :)

It was a Geocities page and had one of those massive long URL's and may have even used an animated gif or too also!

As did I :) , I also ran a southpark site but stopped updating because I was just linking to other peoples content (with credit). Looking back I wished I added votes, called it an aggregator and gone for the win :D

That's nothing. I remember putting webiste into a frameset just to avoid having scrollbar in Netscape 3 \o/.

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