Wow - I'm in awe! I came across the web in '94 but didn't get commercial clients for building web apps until '96. I didn't think that was horrible, but clearly I'm a short timer at this web application development stuff with only 15 years experience :)
Best Wishes, Peter On Jan 12, 2011, at 12:58 PM, dkerins wrote: > The University of Victoria (Fine Arts Faculty) had a donation from Sun > of their workstations back in 1992-3 and I was hired as a junior > admin. Around 1993-4, part of my job was creating web pages on SunOS > with HoTMetaL as an html editor and using NCSA Mosaic as the browser > and the CERN httpd daemon. As cool as that was, I was totally blown > away by playing netrek on the server at Carnegie Mellon University > with people all over the continent. > > In retrospect, it was pretty cool to have stumbled upon the early web > as a naive young student. Since them, the changes and the speed of > change is awe inspiring. > > On Jan 11, 6:08 am, Peter Bell <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Jan 10, 2011, at 7:51 PM, Michelle wrote: >> >>> 2-20+ years of experience developing web based applications >> >> I was just about to joke about wanting to find someone outside of CERN with >> 20+ years of web app experience, but it looks like we're getting close to it >> being an accurate number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP#History). Now >> I'm feeling a latecomer - I didn't start doing web dev until '96 :( >> >> Anyone here actually doing any commercial dev using http pre '94 (pre >> Netscape)? >> >> Best Wishes, >> Peter > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
