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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...

  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?

  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. 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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  5. 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.

  6. 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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