Portals: A Vignette

In the fall of 1996 I was one half of the two-man technical team behind macromedia.com. My colleague Eric Thompson kept the servers humming and I was the token programmer.

I spent my days and nights in Perl, Javascript (brand-new at the time), and Lingo (the language of Macromedia Director), with an occasional foray into C for Netscape web server plugin development. The site was one of the web's busiest then due to the popularity of Shockwave, the Director browser plugin that predated Flash. It seems strange in retrospect that such a busy site would have such a skeleton crew, but we didn't know that then. The web was still in its infancy, and no one really knew what they were doing, least of all me.

Source: sutrosoftware.com Posted by supportsupport 481 days, 9 hours, 41 minutes ago
Tags: IT, Portals, Software category: Technology & Features
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