Webmonkey Closes its Doors

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."

Comments

Re:First sign that web based content is unprofitab

[iocat]

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...

Re:Wow!

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Salute!

[use_compress]

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.

At first I thougth they meant Primate Programming

[nitehawk214]

They are not talking about this company.

Flamebait

[$exyNerdie]

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

Webmonkey Tips

Re:You are insane, and greedy

[Penguinshit]

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

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

And so it proves...

[stateofmind]

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

Josh

Re:You are insane, and greedy

[rthille]

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