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Re:What was it like to self-learn programming before Stack O... by ry_ry on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:35AM (#14339843)
Also from the same era was implausibly popular 'dynamic HTML' site Dynamic Drive, where users could copypaste semi-curated JS, which was responsible for some of the worst code ever to be deployed on the internet.

I honestly don't know if it helped move web development forwards or held it back!

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Re:What was it like to self-learn programming before Stack O... by DanSmooth on Monday May 15, 2017 @05:02AM (#14340158)
I once argued that the best thing that ever happened to web-development in terms of adoption was "view source" and how easily accessible it was.
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Re:What was it like to self-learn programming before Stack O... by ry_ry on Monday May 15, 2017 @08:32AM (#14341034)
Absolutely! That and being able to run code directly in the context of the page through the dev tools console.

Even these days if i'm having a poke around somebody else's work, one of the first things i do is to pop open the dev tools and start seeing which libraries they're running and what their custom namespaces are.

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