Web Wizardry

Posted by jmr On 8:33 PM

-- Michael Raymond

Web WizardryOnce upon a time in a land called "Internet", there were few inhabitants and only a handful of places for those few inhabitants to visit. In this strange and mysterious land, most information was shared in a relatively new language called HTML.



Whole libraries of information, called websites, were delivered to your computer faster than any of the big three delivery guys can deliver packages, even now.



There were a few bastions of wizards fluent in HTML located throughout this land and the number of wizards, for a time, was greater than the number of mortal inhabitants.



One of the strongest enclaves of wizards in Internet was at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. These wizards listened to the discontent of the inhabitants around them and decided to assist if they could. Internet, it seems, prior to the wizards getting involved, was a land all but devoid of pictures—with only text, which proved to be rather boring and monotonous. This group of wizards … …More….

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