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Was having lunch with a dear friend of mine (who happens to be gay) and he joked that he has a simple litmus test to see if a nascent relationship has a chance to last. He simply asks if is beaux-to-be knows who LBJ is. If they do, he knows they’re either old enough or smart enough to continue.
I was thinking that web developers could do the same thing. Last year I mentioned Webmonkey to a young HTML coder I knew and she didn’t know what I was talking about, which just about gave me a heart attack. The site is a shadow of its former self, but during the mid- to late-90s it was the place to go to learn all about the hip Web technologies: HTML, Perl, Flash, animated GIFs, and more. I still remember with pleasure reading through those tutorials and figuring out how to do things.
The webmonkeys wrote with panache and flare. They are a hallmark of a simpler time before all of us became slaves to the Web 2.0 grind. Sniff.
From now on, I’ll drop cryptic references to webmonkey into conversations with fellow geeks. If they get it, then I know they’re part of my tribe. If they don’t, I’ll know exactly who I’m dealing with, mwaaahaha.
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I fondly remember Webmonkey and still have it bookmarked. Though the information has not kept up with the times and other website resources are now available for web development I still keep the cheat sheet marked. You never know when you need a quick color code or symbol code.
I don’t write code, however I also have it bookmarked on an old Mac llsi running system 6.75 in the browser of the day, Netscape.