Post #3177961

2026-06-07 23:06 UTC

It's 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it's just like Word and it's very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website), you visit your site in your browser and everything's fine and the site's readable and everything looks the way it should 🦝 "Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026" you think to yourself for some reason

Replies (6)

@smallcircles@social.coop 2026-06-08 05:17

@ifixcoinops@retro.social Modern websites are Rube Goldberg machines that rival ASML Litography machines in complexity to display plain text and some images.

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@ifixcoinops@retro.social 2026-06-07 23:09

The site works fine but sometimes you get email from guys - always guys - telling you that the code sucks because you used frontpage express You don't bother replying because it doesn't matter, the site works fine, but this does discourage you somewhat, so you get a copy of Macromedia Dreamweaver on CD from a guy outside the computer market. His stall was a tarp on the ground.

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@krishean@tech.lgbt 2026-06-07 23:08

@ifixcoinops@retro.social oh no

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@the5thColumnist@ottawa.place 2026-06-07 23:31

@ifixcoinops@retro.social In 1998 people wanted information and people wanted to give them that.

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@CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems 2026-06-07 23:52

@ifixcoinops@retro.social I-I still make websites on my retro internet service with Frontpage 2003 I LIKE Frontpage ;-;

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@quixote@mastodon.nz 2026-06-08 00:12

@ifixcoinops@retro.social "🦝 "Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026" you think to yourself for some reason" That is so so so so true. What a world we lost.

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