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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. Technically... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... they can't be *Zombies* if they're back from the dead. Resurrected != Zombiefied.

    1. Re:Technically... by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny

      They were dead, now they're up and shambling around and making moaning noises. However the question of whether they still have a soul left remains unanswered. Until that's determined, the Resurrected vs. Zombiefied issue is moot.

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  4. Confusing wording by vijaya_chandra · · Score: 5, Funny

    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)

  5. Monkey Island... by ideatrack · · Score: 5, Funny

    said it best:

    "Oh, dear, he's had a sudden and completely unexpected relapse of death!"

  6. 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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  7. A List Apart by Enygma42 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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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. O'Reilly Net and A List Apart by Infonaut · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Agreed. WebMonkey has pretty much outlived its usefulness to professional Web developers. I find the stuff on O'Reilly Net and A List Apart to be a lot more up to date (obviously) and relevant.

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