Everything you see here started in 1999. That's a really long time ago. It's soooo long ago, that the best way to describe all the things that happened is by starting with a timeline:
To go into more detail about some of the quirks from this timeline, check out the forum post dedicated to it.
Running a community of over 200k members takes a village. The currently active village sherpas, better known as moderators, who ensure everything runs smoothly are:
senocular (aka Trevor McCauley)
krilnon (aka Kyle Murray)
TheCanadian (aka Jesse Marangoni)
kirupa (aka Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Over the years, this site has had quite an illustrious set of moderators who imparted their wisdom, secret recipes, and sweet dance moves. While they are no longer active on the site, their presence had a huge impact:
Manny Dimatulac
(thoriphes)
Edwin Rosero
(vts31)
Dan Alu
(telekinesis)
Gert Vinke
(sbeener)
Eyezberg
(Eyezberg)
Ilyas Usal
(ilyaslamasse)
Iammontoya
(Iammontoya)
Donna Lopez
(RenaissanceGirl)
Angela Taylor
(Kitiara)
Shane Waldeck
(lostinbeta)
Christian Eilsoe
(eilsoe)
Jubba
(Jubba)
Hamid
(h88)
ElectronGeek
(ElectronGeek)
Ahmed Abbas
(ahmed)
kax
(kax)
Claudio
(Claudio)
Nathan Galloway
(DDD)
Jeroen De Ridder
(voetsjoeba)
Mike DiPietro
(mdipi)
Paul Soultis
(.soulty)
Dave Collier
(digitalosophy)
Randall Potter
(prstudio)
Scotty
(Scotty)
Nick
(njs12345)
Andrin
(Syko)
Melissa
(lunatic)
Joshua Jenkins
(xxviii)
Unflux
(Unflux)
stringy
(stringy)
Simplistik
(simplistik)
Josh Rhame
(rhamej)
Emma Dobrescu
(ditt0)
Brian Haveri
(bwh2)
Jeff Wheeler
(bombingpixels)
Austin Andrews
(templarian)
Ryan Ragona
(Anogar)
Dale
(glosrfc)
Shaedo
(Shaedo)
Luis
(kode)
Some of them still drop by every now and again to tell us about their adventures and life after retiring from this site, so have your cameras on the ready in case the time is right.
The awesome pixel icons we see throughout the site come all the way from the early 2000's by Greg Fleming of Dark Project Studios fame:
Some of the other icons you'll likely see are a part of Twitter's Twemoji set.
The pixel font used in the various headings is Born2BSporty by JapanYoshi:
The code snippets are built on the epic monospaced pixel font, Departure Mono built by Helena Zhang:
The sans-serif font used everywhere else is the modern-yet-retro-looking Chakra Petch.
The site doesn't use a lot of complicated things to work. Almost everything in the site is created in vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS. Server-side logic is handled in PHP with a couple of MySQL servers providing databasey goodness. If you are curious to learn more, the following behind-the-scenes video describes the process for getting an article published:
As you can see, the way the site is built today still resembles the state-of-the-art from those many years ago when the site first started in the late 90's. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? You tell me!
Over the years, the site has grown and evolved quite a bit, but one thing never changed. That thing is a laser-focused goal on providing you with the easiest-to-understand (and possibly funniest!) content to make learning web development and related topics more fun. All of that is made possible thanks to readers like you. So, thank you!
Just a final word before we wrap up. If you have a question and/or want to be part of a friendly, collaborative community of over 220k other developers like yourself, post on the forums for a quick response!
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