Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s

Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by irrational on Friday March 02, 2018 @06:51PM (#16506818)

This is something I've struggled with. When I think of introducing people to web development I think about how I got my start - creating a website to display pictures of my newborn daughter in 1997. Only, who would do such a thing these days? People would just post those to Facebook or Instagram. Creating a web app is too much too soon in my opinion. What is a good project that has relevance in 2018, but doesn't require anything more than vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS?

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Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by mmphosis on Friday March 02, 2018 @09:37PM (#16507528)

> Only, who would do such a thing these days?

I would. The corporate sites you mention are cumbersome and detrimental.

Yes, creating a web app is too much, and so is a project, in my opinion. A web document is all that might be needed:

  <html><head><title>website</title></head>
  <body><img src="newborn.png"></body></html>

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Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by flukus on Monday March 05, 2018 @07:25PM (#16525869)

Isn't that overkill as well? Not sure on the current state of ftp support but I think firefox still allows ftp browsing. We had protocols and programs dedicated to sharing stuff like this before we put them behind commercial walls.

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Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by heavenlyblue on Saturday March 03, 2018 @07:58AM (#16509097)

A marketing landing page is a good example.

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