I started at a printing company as an apprentice in the early 90s. Still do for a living – graphic work, order calculation, filemaker development & webdesign. Bought my first Mac in 1990-1991.
I developed companys own website back in the 90s. Played around with Claris Home Page, Adobe PageMill and settled with GoLive CyberStudio, that Adobe later acquired – and then killed – after acquisition of Macromedia and their WYSIWYG Dreamweaver. Great regret!
The internet connection was a modem (more like a slow’dem). The top browser was Netscape.
I first met RapidWeaver around version 2.5-2.7 and jumped aboard at version 3.2 (I think it was).
Then came the Stacks Plugin by YourHead Software. I was a little late on that and first started using it at version 2.
The Stacks plugin made it possible for developers to create their own code-snippets with ‘HUD’ input (Stacks). Though I was not a developer, I had learned the basics of html, css and javascript along the way. I took a couple days off work, nerded 24 hours for four days and learned the basics of creating a Stack.
With the help of some of the other developers – Will Woodgate (tutorials) – Joe Workman (stacks update routine), a few other – and a very enthusiastic and helpful community – I created defligra.com (at first named denflinkegrafiker.dk) which means ’the nice graphic artist’ in danish… which I mostly am, especially after the first cup of coffee around 9-10 am.
And here I am – a Rapid Weaver.
During the 5 versions of RapidWeaver I have survived so far (couple of mac’s and girl friends as well) – the internet has changed. I remember Windows Explorer 6 [scary face icon] and then suddenly the whole world went responsive!
I still have all my teeth.
Best,
DeFliGra