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Honest to god, I've seen people from the past trying to write html for a website on Word.
True story, about 20-25 years ago, a radio station in my home town was playing ads for some new local business doing web design.
After hearing the ad on my drive to work for the umpteen billionth time I finally got curious and went to check out their own website (I they're charging people to build websites, they're own website must be a pretty awesome demonstration of their skills, right?)
The website looked like absolute garbage and, upon viewing the source, the meta tags clearly betrayed the fact that it was created in Word.
I can only imagine how much money they were paying to run those ads. I even considered the possibility I was being pranked somehow.
In fairness websites from 2000-2004 werent all that better
Were there better ways to make a site? Absolutely, but it is much less wild than if you told me that this happened last week. Plus i would hope they were just churning out websites for cheap since a lot places didn't have a website, or they used geocities/similar
For me that's the golden age, and after that: darkness, desperation, flash.
I don't care what you say, the Apple store circa 2001 is iconic and definitely has that "lickability" factor that Jobs loved so much about the original OS X's Aqua UI.
Word? Not FrontPage? That was an improvement.
Did they not know that word can generate very convoluted HTML for them?
I started learning HTML at the age of 10 using FrontPage and Word. There were entire utilities dedicated to stripping out Word’s atrocious HTML at the time.