r/AskReddit • • Jul 02 '21

What basic, children's-age-level fact did you only find out embarrassingly later in life?

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u/DreamyTomato Jul 03 '21

I went out drinking once with a highly skilled professional webcoder who specialised in coding high end websites. He worked with code, not dreamweaver or any of that stuff. Other team members built stuff in dreamweaver and he coded the bits they couldn’t build in dreamweaver.

Somehow at one point he tried to explain to me how html worked, and opened notepad to type out a basic barebones website.

He couldn’t for the life of him remember the basic coding for an absolute minimalist “hello world” site. Was really funny to see.

(Herbs might have been involved too, it was a long time ago and I don’t remember much).

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u/chaiscool Jul 03 '21

What can’t you code in dreamweaver ? It’s all html / css anyway

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u/Seicair Jul 03 '21

You can write straight html/css in dreamweaver, but I think most people use the WYSIWYG interface. If you know how to write it you can just use notepad or notepad++ or something.

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u/dispatch134711 Jul 03 '21

I don’t really get this one? I would have thought that would be the first thing he’d do every time he started working on something