Zombie Webmonkey: Back From the Dead?
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?"
What a weird statement... like saying "It might not be the beginning of the end, but it might be the beginning of the end of the middle."
Besides, the end of the end is "d".
*me flings poo at coworkers in act of celebration*
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...
First day and 50,000 hits. Referers? Well mostly from one website... well no it's mostly just the front page...
Definitely serving up new ads... five ads on the front page alone. Argh.
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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?
... they can't be *Zombies* if they're back from the dead. Resurrected != Zombiefied.
Zombie webmonkey
I jumped out of my chair in happiness thinking that my old buddy the bonzi monkey's back
(I will adjust with the clippy for the time being)
said it best:
"Oh, dear, he's had a sudden and completely unexpected relapse of death!"
No other source of free information has been so usefull in developing my (rather lame by 2004 standards) homepage, and thus web knowladge.
I loved it, recommended it to all I knew interested in webdesign, and by bog, more designers could learn from it.
"/Dread"
sweet...you mean we'll get to see something aside from the articles on how exciting that new PHP language is?
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.
--- March, milde, march!
I want suck.com to come back.
Polly! How I miss thee!
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
with all the wysiwyg editors what is the reason for the average joe to know html. If you are more advanced then that you prolly have a minilibrary of book on it. So, why webmonkey??? I havn't used it in years.
Evolution or ID?
i personally like webmonkey just for it's name. i haven't used the actual site in years...
after all, monkeys just make things better.
Adding monkeys to things simply make them better.
Unix Reference Guide
Unless you have a Unix machine sitting on your desktop, you're probably accessing it through telnet or a command-line shell.
I have had shamelessly lived on others' *nix boxes using X-Win32 and Cygwin/X for a long time
(Karma be damned; I am no better than an AC anyway)
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.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
Err pasted the same as that of X-Win32
Cygwin/X
(Karma be damned; I am no better than an AC anyway)
Take a look at A List Apart, they're a bit into CSS but that's a Good Thing really.
I don't need no steenkin' webmonkey.
"hehe, website" - Homer Simpson
When the title of the first word begins with some supreme-marketing-drone-with-a-poor-command-of-the -English-language nonsense-word such as 'Strategizing' it's no wonder they went down the pan.
--
This sig is inoffensive.
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?
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
Everyone knows it's SPIDERS that make webs, not primates. Oh, except Spiderman, I suppose. And maybe that Berners-Lee guy, although he never got to kiss Kirsten Dunst upside down in the rain.
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.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
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.
www.enterweb.pt
Maybe they are just running on limited staff. The top article on webmonkey is from June 18th 2004.
Dunno if this is the "end of the end" (grimace) for webmonkey, but I stopped using it when they fell for that oh-so-common trap - mindless adverts, popups, flash-ads
I guess that's why a lot of other people stopped using it...
http://efil.blogspot.com/
and forgot to update the copyright dates everywhere?
The year in a copyright notice tells when a work was first published. If each individual article is a separate work, then of course some works might have been first published in 2003.
That's not very nice you know... trying to trigger the world's first Pancake-House slashdotting...
I've found myself training some young newbs in the finer points of web dev. I notice that despite my best efforts in explanation I often slip bits of techno jargon in which leave my trainees looking confused and bewildered. Though I hadn't used webmonkey in years (ie. my newb days) I remembered that jargon was either avoided or thoughtfully introduced, something I seemed incapable of doing. So now I create lists of webmonkey articles for my newbs to peruse prior to their hands-on lessons with me. Long story short, webmonkey is a great resource for beginners but a bit dumbed down for the slashdot crowd.
Article from 18 June 2004
I don't consider "Punch the kangaroo for a free web cam taking up 1/3 of the page" being a significant contribution to web publishing. The Macromedia Contribute article required you to click "Next Page" every three sentences, which I'm sure was a great way to maximize eyeballs per page of advertisements. No thanks, I'll pass.
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
saw this some time back and couldn't resist...
God is Dead
-Nietzche
Nietzche is Dead
-God
But Zombie Nietzche Lives!!
-Zombie Nietzche
Now I can finally learn how to make webpages with all the content on the left half of the screen, and nothing but the background image on the right half. That's SOOOOOO cool!
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
Ok, do we get to shoot them in the head w/ a shotgun?
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