@sarajw @danhon I believe it was from playing with...

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@sarajw @danhon I believe it was from playing with a demo copy of Macromedia Dreamweaver from a magazine cover CD. Hosted on the free hosting that came with Freeserve (our ISP back then).

Everything seemed magical. The web was not yet commercialised; it was a sea of interlinked pockets of enthusiasm and nerdery and friendliness. You could bump into new ideas and concepts constantly, never sold anything. It truly felt like the future anyone would want. And *I* could be part of it?! Stunning.

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Matt Wilcox

@sarajw @danhon Man, the "Bert is Evil" days and earlier. I still remember playing with Netscape Navigator on Windows 95 before we got our Modem. On a Pentium 166MMX with 16Mb RAM and a 1.2Gb HDD. Wondering what the internet would actually be like at home - I don't think we even had it at school yet. Browsing the Help page, watching the logo of the world spin. Plowing through all the menu items to see what was there.

I miss those days.

24 August at 21:34 | Open on mstdn.social

Sara Joy :happy_pepper:

@mattwilcox @danhon having that bored and free teenage time to just plough through all the things, just exploring

24 August at 21:37 | Open on front-end.social

Georgimus Prime

@mattwilcox @sarajw @danhon There was this fellow going by "Raybiez" who used to post patches/cracks for all the Macromedia trial versions back then. And the software didn't mind if you just copied the folder to another computer, would recreate all the necessary (Windows) registry entries the first time you ran it.
It really was magical. You could tell that the software companies (except Microsoft) actually listened to what users wanted between releases.

24 August at 22:22 | Open on mastodon.social