Back in my day, we had webpages, and we had to walk miles upon miles, uphill both ways, barefoot through the snowy hills of HTML code. We purchased domain names for $50.00 a year. Because it was relatively new(ish) then and if you wanted your own thing, you had to do it yourself and you had to pay for it.
Oh sure, if you didn't want to do it all yourself there were sites like angelfire.com where you could click a few buttons, type a few words and voila! you have a free website. But, it wasn't like what we have today. Back then, if you used a free hosting site, you had about 200 pixels of space in between the blinking, flashing advertisements attached to your free page.
If you used one of those free sites, chances are you used background like this:
And a font like this on top of that awesome background.
Animated clipart ring a bell?
There were no fancy ways for readers to leave comments. Oh no. We used guestbooks from sites like Bravenet and shit. Those too, were ridden with ads and had virtually no spam filters. I had exactly four hundred emails a day advertising hotcuntsforless.com and such.
You can clearly see why we were forced to write our own code.
Anything other than HTML was virtually unheard of for amateur use. Fancy things, like CSS for one example, was only used by Wizards of the Web who were far too fucking cool to teach us anything about it. Until now.
Now? We can use DASHED lines in what-used-to-be-called-tables. And we can customize like we only dreamed of on those cold, lonely nights back in the day when we were pounding out our sites and loving every minute of our Windows 2000 upgrade.
Blogging now? In 2010? Is fucking awesome.
*= Don't get me wrong. I haven't been in a fucking cave. I have been blogging, writing, etc. under different names. I am just back to blogging under the InsolentBitch aka InsolentGoat.
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