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Credits Wyatt Steere - Solo Project Creative Process: For decades sports fanatics have argued whether the players of today are better than the greats of the past. Jordan or Lebron? Messi or Ronaldo? Should Barry Bonds be in the Hall of fame? As a life-long sports fan, I have always wanted there to be a way to go back in time and witness the iconic sports moments of the past. To be able to answer these questions, and see for myself. An unfortunate impossibility but this personal website sought to fulfill my nostalgia fueled desire to relive the sports eras of the past. For a chance to relish in the glory of the NBA, Premier League, MLB. From Wimbledon to Augusta, these iconic moments meant the world to the fans that attended them and this site was my way to sit alongside those fans 30 years after the fact. My sources ranged from local and national newspapers (that have since been archived), sports media of the time (Sportscenter, ESPN), personal blogs and ranking sites. This is an incredibly biased and personal top 10 but there was quite a bit of research from all of these sources. To create this list I weighed the impact of the moment, the future meaning the moment would hold and how much had led up to that moment. My only hope is that you will feel a fraction of the joy these fans, and myself, felt living and reliving these iconic moments. Development Process: Microsoft FrontPage felt much less like my modern web dev experience and much more like I was tailoring a power point or a word document. It was an incredibly simple and intuitive process, however I can imagine it felt much more novel at the time. Modern web dev allows much more customization however the set-up and scaffolding process is considerably more cumbersome. An interesting feature I quite enjoyed was being able to see the HTML as you changed the frontend via the built-in tools. This was an interesting approach and one that I see living on in sites such as wix. While I enjoyed the ease of use and accessibility of Microsoft Frontpage, the ceiling that modern web development provides can not be rivaled by these older platforms. Internet Culture and GeoCities: Even though we are using the same tools of web developers and hobbyists of the early 2000s, the modern lens provided to us by advancements in web development and understanding of the technological stack gives us a different perspective than those we are attempting to emulate. The actual GeoCities users of the past would have only know these tools as the bleeding edge of technology. That websites such as these are as immersive and as complicated as websites have ever been. They could not fathom what tools such as AJAX, client side rendering or the rise of frameworks and libraries would allow users to do. I notice that the HTML used by Frontpage does not import any libraries. Payment management, SSO, security and cryptography advancements, all would have been unknown by the GeoCities user of the late 90s and early 2000s. While much of our experience is the same, our understanding of the tools available and perspective on how they function within the larger internet ecosystem could not be more different.
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