Back to the Future: A look at web development around the millennium
Time: Thursday 14th May 15:30-16:00
Room: Loft
Track: Web Tools & Complementary Technologies
With a bit of sentiment running through the veins, Alistair is coming armed with a virtualised old school Windows setup. It will be a bit of a look back to how the web once was and an attempt to use some back in the day tools to make and run something locally. Can he still do it by hand? How do some of these older browsers work when connecting to modern websites? Can Alistair make his first computer's hard drive work and recover a previous lifetime or will he have to make a fresh virtual machine to try and replicate that old feeling? Alistair will also background his experience and how he got started.
Happy for this to be a 30 or 45 minute session. Happy for this to be under People and Culture or Other too, however you might want to split it. I am flexible.
Happy for this to be a 30 or 45 minute session. Happy for this to be under People and Culture or Other too, however you might want to split it. I am flexible.
Speakers
Alistair O'Neill
Alistair was first online in 1995, and started building on the web in 1998. First as a hobby, then as freelancer and in 2007, moved into government. Since 2016 he has been involved in Drupal and GovCMS, with multiple stints as a customer as well as a few years as Technical Product Owner at GovCMS. Alistair has an interest and passion around open source and loves a chat.