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This follows the classical Prof. Dr. Style of academic websites: http://contemporary-home-computing.org/prof-dr-style/

Unfortunately many of the examples in the article have since been replaced by boring template website from the university or institute.

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I still prefer this "raw" HTML style and use it to provide information about my own courses instead of the stupid and dysfunctional "learning management system" (Blackboard) that our university wants us to use.

It's much faster to add information to the handwritten web page than to use the Javascript GUI mess and this also makes it much easier for students to discover information.

Doug McIlroy: https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/ Tom Duff (not a professor though): iq0.com

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