this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2023
900 points (96.1% liked)

Programmer Humor

19623 readers
76 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] jiberish 99 points 1 year ago (44 children)

As an amateur web designer in the 90s and early 2000s, this speaks to me. I stopped web development when CSS became popular and I couldn’t wrap my head around it.

Is there a petition I can sign to scrap all this nonsense modern web progress and go back to that beautiful, dial-up friendly HTML?

[–] Acetamide 43 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Let's just design every website using a table again. Or even better, frames!

[–] qwertyqwertyqwerty 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I stand by that iframes had their place, even if the backend devs absolutely hated them.

[–] SixTrickyBiscuits 2 points 1 year ago

I believe Kingdom of Loathing used iframes extensively to achieve what looked like a "dynamic" page long before that was a thing.

load more comments (6 replies)
load more comments (17 replies)
load more comments (41 replies)