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> DHTML, which stands for “distributed HTML”

> Sites like Dynamic Drive meant that instead of thinking through creative solutions for problems you face, you could just copy and paste this 50 line block of code and everything would be fixed.

DHTML in this context stood for Dynamic HTML, not “distributed”, hence the Dynamic of Dynamic Drive.

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> DHTML, which absolutely stands for “distributed HTML” because that’s the name and this isn’t obvious bait for the no fun crowd at Hacker News

That was meant as a joke, which you misquoted.

Edit to add: others made the same misquote, so I wonder if the author cheekily edited it recently.

Indeed... it was different 4 days ago :)

https://web.archive.org/web/20240121220542/https://zachholma...

I copy/pasted. The author is up to shenanigans.

no, they probably needed to emphasize the joke aspect to the pedantic army of superior IQ readers.

"Technology of Terror" as the description still stands though with no rebuttal.

I was wondering if this was meant to allude to the “you could just copy and paste” a bit further down. And maybe a riff on DCOM.

Discussed down-thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39127528

Conclusion was that it's a joke, but not a good one.

Wow, he really did find the No Fun Crowd here.

A person I know won a Microsoft contest when this was first announced and rolled out. Here's to you Scotty. A very smart person at a company full of them in the late 90's. I was one of the dumbest around in a place packed with talent. Never worked at a place as smart since.

So, so much time spent on DynamicDrive. It was the future. Thanks for the reminder!

Coping scripts from Dynamic Drive made people think I was some sort of Web God.

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