FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)

Re:FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997) by Terretta on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:53AM (#17966642)

And BSD. Early on, we ran the first and largest MS FrontPage 'certified' web hosting provider, we enabled it on BSD with content in the same Unix home directories we gave our dialup clients.

Folks who made web sites in those days and paid $20/month to host them provided a pretty compelling library of content compared to today's pay-per-click 'blogosphere'.

I liked the "put up or shut up" pay-to-host model, driven by your beliefs, not your readers.

And despite the pretty garish things that happened in that web design era that FrontPage memorialized (rollover buttons!), kudos to Vermeer for democratizing web site creation.

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Re:FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997) by lupin_sansei on Thursday September 13, 2018 @01:32AM (#17976294)

Good point. Not a lot of people remembered that Microsoft acquired FrontPage from Vermeer in 1996 for millions. There's a pretty good old book about it "High St@kes, No Prisoners"

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