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r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖 @cypnk

“A three kilometer-long space ship laid out like an early 2000s era website:

* NAV at the top/front/head of the ship
* drive section in the FOOTER
* left-hand nav running all the way down the length of the ship
* a CAROUSEL to replicate gravity
* powered by COLDFUSION”

FYI ColdFusion is still around

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColdFu

“The Roadmap projects ColdFusion development out to the year 2021.”

@cypnk Yup. And they've massively improved it. Had to deal with it a couple jobs ago. It's now a WAR file and each app can be an independent WAR file. Devs would send me a new file and I'd drop it into tomcat and *boom* done. All languages should have apps that easy to deploy.

@sungo That’s the ultimate Put Files Here > Done

@cypnk Yup. Particularly since each of those war files can be a different CF version. As the admin, I don't have to know about anything except that the file is in the right place and tomcat isn't screaming about it.

@cypnk

Anyone remember when half the websites had sitemaps? 😎

@cypnk

The "best" landing pages were the giant gifs with section links

@cypnk @frostotron

2000s-era websites were wonderful, and way more functional than many modern sites are!

@linkskywalker @frostotron And no two looked exactly the same. These days, I have a hard time telling one site from another

@cypnk @frostotron

And understanding how to make one was the work of a few weeks of casual study and practice, rather than years of dedicated education. Thus, many folks were empowered to create platforms on the web who.

@cypnk

You're not supposed to favorite it before I can delete it and fix the typo! Nooooo!

@linkskywalker Hahaha! That just means it's a hand-crafted toot ;)