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Webmonkey Closes its Doors

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the thanks-for-all-the-fish dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to Wired, Webmonkey is being closed by TerraLycos after 8 years of teaching practical web building skills and bucking more traditional outlets. They've written some good stuff over the years - in fact, I first understood the significance of XML after reading one of their articles."

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  1. Re:First sign that web based content is unprofitab by iocat · · Score: 3, Funny
    Don't tell this to IGN or GameSpot , which are finally raking money in hand over fist, for advertising, after years on the skids.

    Of course, those sites are so packed with ads they're functionally unusable, but still...

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  2. Re:Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A site like that is no longer needed. With Microsoft products like Frontpage and IIS anybody can become a web genius. And from anywhere, allowing web development to be offshored to cheaper, better, faster countries.

  3. Salute! by use_compress · · Score: 4, Funny

    On behalf of all companies too cheap to by up-to-date reference books, I salute you WebMonkey. You've given me the information that has prevented me from robbing Barnes and Nobel countless times.

  4. At first I thougth they meant Primate Programming by nitehawk214 · · Score: 3, Funny

    They are not talking about this company.

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  5. Monty Pythonesque by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Isn't the site already dead?"

    "No, I'm not."

  6. Flamebait by $exyNerdie · · Score: 3, Funny


    This might seem like a bad joke but people getting laid off from webmonkey team might make a use of this:

    Webmonkey Tips

  7. Re:You are insane, and greedy by Penguinshit · · Score: 4, Funny


    Ahhh.. the days of alt.pics.binary...

    cat titties1.uue titties2.uue titties3.uue > titties.uue | uudecode -o titties.jpg

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  8. And so it proves... by stateofmind · · Score: 3, Funny

    A thousand monkeys, typing on a thousand typewriters cannot keep a site running.

    Josh

  9. I know this sounds like a troll, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thank God! Hopefully this means that people at the level this site catered to have realized that they are not needed in the computer industry and have moved on.

    I see a lot of Java programming for idiots sites that seem to be in their final death throws too. Thank God!

    It seems like the problem with the boom is that it attracted and ecouraged a lot of people who have no business being within 10 feet of a computer.

  10. Re:You are insane, and greedy by rthille · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, you're planning on uudecoding the error output from 'cat'? Wow, that's some wierd fetish you've got there...

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