• cogman@lemmy.world
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    Wysiwygs were all the rage in the late 90s early 00s with a promise that the hard part of development was actually just doing the layout.

    Tools like frontpage have been tricking incredulous entrepreneurs that programming is easy since at least then.

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      In revenge for reminding me of Frontpage I will also mention Dreamweaver. God just the memory of trying to clean up copy text someone edited in Frontpage is giving me nausea.

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        In revenge for reminding me of Frontpage I will also mention Dreamweaver

        Small business owners learning about word2html.net for the first time…

        I’m just saying, this is an arms race and nobody will win.