Whatever Happened to Webmonkey.com?(longhandpixels.net)
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Whatever Happened to Webmonkey.com?
http://longhandpixels.net/blog/2013/sep/20/whatever-happened-to-webmonkey/
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Somewhat related: I was a huge fan of Webmonkey. I was also a regular at http://funkychickens.com.
They haven't updated it still. Awesome.
They haven't updated it still. Awesome.
Web monkey helped me a ton in my younger years. Thanks for all the fish!
So long, Webmonkey. Thanks a lot for the "Sizing Up the Browsers" article from 1999.[1] I referred to it every time I made a website that was best viewed in NN4 or IE5 at 800x600 resolution.
[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20000302050428/http://hotwired.ly...
[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20000302050428/http://hotwired.ly...
This is similar to what happened to TheWebMachine which hosted tutorials for Photoshop/illustrator and family and simple HTML and a bit of PHP (anyone remember Shoutboxes?). "Rough around the edges" is acceptable, IMO, if you're doing this for fun. But Wired is a business and without sufficient relevance, they probably thought it wasn't worth the effort to keep it active.
I loved this site and the way the articles were written. Thanks to everyone (especially Scott) who contributed to it over the years.
You're most welcome.
In case anyone is interested in some really old stuff, I recently dug up some of my articles from 1997 for a Wired/Hotwired reunion. Here's a doc with some pointers to the wayback machine:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIMWHlxe_SFilR2YTzGCAmlF...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIMWHlxe_SFilR2YTzGCAmlF...
That's awesome. I tried tweaking the URLs to see if I could find some of my first stuff (1999), but no dice.
Hard to believe they couldn't have made a go of this.
The 'WebMonkey' brand has a decent amount of cred - why doesn't Wired try to transition it into a proven model, like the Envato 'Tuts' sites?
I guess if they've already tried to resurrect it several times (as the article states) and still couldn't pull it off, I must be missing something.
Still, seems a shame...
The 'WebMonkey' brand has a decent amount of cred - why doesn't Wired try to transition it into a proven model, like the Envato 'Tuts' sites?
I guess if they've already tried to resurrect it several times (as the article states) and still couldn't pull it off, I must be missing something.
Still, seems a shame...
Remember the interview show HotSeat with John McChesney? Ah, the early days of Real Player.
Will be missed. Learned how to make my first homepage and how to use Flash 5. Remember this[1]?
1. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lAXqRCQ-u9U/Tk64A0f97II/AAAAAAAAAo...
1. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lAXqRCQ-u9U/Tk64A0f97II/AAAAAAAAAo...
1998 indeed was a different time!
Flash 4 was also really fun to muck about with.