…but some of us were watching | Knut Melvær
A response to The Descent, the generated frontend history that entered my feed recently. It skipped the CMS decade, Flash, and everyone who was in wp-admin in 2008 (like I was).
A response to The Descent, the generated frontend history that entered my feed recently. It skipped the CMS decade, Flash, and everyone who was in wp-admin in 2008 (like I was). The blog post "The Descent What Happened to the Frontend While You Weren't Watching" has swung past in various feeds lately. Many of my fellow web developers seem to relate to it, probably because we feel some nostalgia for what now feels like simpler times (spoiler: they weren't). The post opens with this statement: In 2008 you saved a file called index.html, dragged it onto an FTP client, and watched a little…
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