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| author | Matthew Lemon <matt@matthewlemon.com> | 2022-07-27 09:26:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Matthew Lemon <matt@matthewlemon.com> | 2022-07-27 09:26:39 +0100 |
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diff --git a/content/about/programming.md b/content/about/programming.md index 8c9f55f..926adf9 100644 --- a/content/about/programming.md +++ b/content/about/programming.md @@ -10,9 +10,11 @@ Programming started in circa 1985 with BASIC on the Sinclair Spectrum 48K. I was ### HTML/Javascript -Worked in the web team of a UK Government Department as a "Web Producer", converting to HTML Word documents sent to us on 1.44MB floppy drives. Javascript back then was for making things pop-up and flash. +In 1999 I worked in the web team of a UK Government Department as a "Web Producer", converting to HTML Word documents sent to us on 1.44MB floppy drives. Javascript back then was for making things pop-up and flash. We used an application called Homesite for most of the markup, and Dreamweaver for some bits. Homesite and Dreamweaver! -Had various hobby blogs and web sites, hosted for free using space provided by my ISP (Pipex?), including one that stuck, [MadHaddy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020216192240/http://www.madhaddy.com/), about my home town in Scotland. Over a couple of years it got quite a following. One of the pubs in the town complained about the site calling it out for serving under-age drinkers. Conversations relating to drugs appears on the forums. After two years I took it down to minimise the hassle. I wish the images were still available on the archive because MadHaddy was largely an exercise "satirical" photography for me - I enjoyed confusing the populace by Photoshopping photos of the town. Also, the purile writing... Great fun. +I'd had various hobby blogs and web sites, hosted for free using space provided by my ISP (Pipex?), including one that stuck, [MadHaddy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020216192240/http://www.madhaddy.com/), about my home town in Scotland. Between 2000 and 2002 it gained a minor following. One of the pubs in the town complained when MadHaddy called it out for serving under-age drinkers. Drugs chat appearred on the forums, including folk apparently arranging deals (at the Mercat Cross, no less). After two years I took the site down to minimise the hassle - and after reading something online which claimed that I might be in some way liable for the hosting of transactions relating to the procurement of recreational drugs... + +I wish the images were still available on the archive because MadHaddy was largely an exercise "satirical" photography for me - confusing the populace by Photoshopping photos of the town. Also, the purile writing, which is still a feature today... Great fun. I still prefer flat-file web sites now of course. |