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Zombie Webmonkey: Back From the Dead?

Posted by Hemos on from the zombie-monkeys-with-straight-edge-razors dept.

Mirkon writes "Back in mid-February, the news was broken that Webmonkey, one of the web's most prominent web development tutorial and reference resources, was "shut down," in that no new content would be delivered. A little over four months later - though Wired News (another child of Webmonkey's parent company, Terra Lycos) says nothing, and the Webmonkey Blog (hosted on Tripod, another Terra Lycos subsidiary) hasn't seen an update since January - the Webmonkey home page boldly declares: "We're totally back! Webmonkey is alive and kicking, serving up new articles all hot-n-fresh like a stack of banana pancakes. With syrup." Is this the end of the end for Webmonkey?"

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  1. obvious by technoviper · · Score: 5, Interesting

    where there is demand there will be supply; its a standard law of economics.. there were enough people who wanted it back for lycos to bring it back... i know a lot of developers who were quite inconvenienced when webmonkey was shut down...

    1. Re:obvious by Squareball · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Yes it's a law of ecnomics but if they are giving away the content for free I'm not sure how that comes into play. There is a great demand for free playstation 2s. Everyone would want one but that doesn't mean that Sony will do it.

  2. Relevance? by DaveKAO · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I personally havn't used web monkey as a development resource since about 1998, because I have found information elsewhere. It seems as if WebMonkey lost it's edge around that time. Has anyone else had the same experience?

    1. Re:Relevance? by L.+VeGas · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I personally havn't used web monkey as a development resource since about 1998, because I have found information elsewhere. It seems as if WebMonkey lost it's edge around that time.

      I agree. I think it's a combination of pandering to a lower common denominator as well as my personal increased skillset.

      Kind of the same reason I cancelled my PC Magazine subscription years ago.

      Penthouse magazine, too. - yeah, right.

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  3. Re: Relevance? -- Not these days by showdax · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Proper (X)HTML/CSS coding has become more prevalent recently so I'd have to say the entire site is becoming depecrated.

    Maybe they'll revamp their information, who knows.

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  4. neato! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Hover your mouse over the parts of the Webmonkey logo.
    Mod me "-1, Who Cares" if you want, but I thought it was a cool gimmick.

  5. Nothing on Tclhttpd by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 4, Interesting
    What am I the only person who uses it? What's there not to love about a web server written completely in TCL?

    /back in my box

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  6. Re:WYSIWYG, why webmonkey? by argent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Creating a web page without knowing HTML is like driving a car without knowing how to read.

  7. Like New Coke by Omega1045 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is like New Coke, where everyone went up in arms when Coca-Cola was going to get rid of the original formula. All kinds of people rallied and the Original Coca-Cola gained tons of popularity and PR.

    Many suspected that Coca-Cola Corp had pulled off one of the best PR stunts of all time, that they had never intended on getting rid of the original. Do you think this is what Terra Lycos has done with WebMonkey?

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  8. OK who restored the backup by blowdart · · Score: 5, Interesting
    and forgot to update the copyright dates everywhere? (Copyright 2003)

    Anyone else find it amusing that a site that wants to teach people HTML doesn't even have a DTD and has to resort to putting "warez" in its metatags? Twice.

  9. It's a shame by amacedo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Web monkey was my first real PHP, MySQL and JavaScript online resource. It's tutorials were always clear, fun and extremely "hands on".

    WebMonkey was probably the best place for a beginner to learn the basis of Internet development.

    I'm sure allot of Perl "holier than thou" developers will bash me for this, but somehow I feel the web will be worse off without such a valuable help do web development newbies.

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  10. Article by EdMcMan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Article from 18 June 2004