I Remember When

My Top 3

Just a trip down memory lane.  Enjoy and add your own memories.

I remember when:

• $20 / Hour sounded like a lot of money
• DBML was replaced by CFML
• 216 colors of mostly nasty yellow, green and blue
• A REALLY expensive TV was $500
• Perl was the most popular way to write ‘back end’ code for a website. 
• Web hosting was local and profitable
• Your ISP lived nearby
• ASP became the most popular solution
• IHTML was packaged with Website Pro (or something like that)
• Homesite was for still for sale
• Spam was funny
• Online Journals were just called online journals and nobody cared about traffic and readership
• A splash page was ‘hot’
• Newspapers still mattered
• Cable news still mattered
• Viruses just tried to destroy your computer rather than take it over
• All of my clients sent me email one day saying "I Love You"
• Ruby On Rails was thought to be perfect
• I weighed 20 pounds less and had more hair