The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds

Re:The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is ... by johnmaguire2013 on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:35PM (#16100238)

> probably came a generations of web programming tinkerers

Neopets allowed "pet pages" containing HTML when I was 10 years old, and this was my first foray into programming.

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Re:The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is ... by giggles_giggles on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:57PM (#16100474)

My girlfriend, otherwise non-technical, still maintains one of these.

There's this huge tribal knowledge built up around copy-paste CSS hacks to enable things like tab navigation all on one page with no JS. It's actually pretty wild some of the stuff these folks do, especially since almost none of them have any technical knowledge and it's all trial-and-error and sharing what works through the forums.

The amount of hackery they do for their forum guild pages (hosted as pet pages) and such almost blows my mind more than the fact that Neopets is still around and somewhat active after all these years.

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Re:The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is ... by seangrogg on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:41PM (#16100292)

Likewise; to this day I still talk about how Neopets' pet pages were my introduction to building web content.

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Re:The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is ... by Apocryphon on Monday January 08, 2018 @04:24PM (#16100741)

Neopets, MySpace, Xanga, Angelfire, Tripod, Geocities...

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Re:The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is ... by seangrogg on Monday January 08, 2018 @05:20PM (#16101293)

Minus Xanga, I made heaps of terrible UI decisions on those platforms. Good times =)

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