Who Killed the Webmaster?

This is a great article.

From the article:
"By 2000, I think every person in the developed world had a brother-in-law who created websites on the side."

I was that brother-in-law.

It continues:
"Armed with Frontpage and a pirated copy of Photoshop, he’d charge a reasonable fee per page (though posting more than three images cost extra.)"

I had a Student Licensed copy of Microsoft FrontPage and a pirated version of Photoshop 4. (Don't worry Adobe, I have gotten many a company to purchase Photoshop in the last 10 years - it was worth it for you. Trust me.)

A business was born, lived on bad design, poor programming, sleeping late, watching morning reruns of "Wings" and "Boston Commons," and then died 18 months later. I killed the webmaster. But he died with a smile on his face.

I would recommend it to everyone.

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