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Who Killed the Webmaster?

Posted by kdawson on from the smoking-guns dept.

XorNand writes "With the explosive growth of the Web in the previous decade, many predicted the birth of a new, well-paying, and in-demand profession: the Webmaster. Yet in 2007, this person has somehow vanished; even the term is scarcely mentioned. What happened? A decade later I'm left wondering: Who killed the Webmaster?"

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  1. Colonel Mustard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Colonel Mustard with Web 2.0 in the kitchen.

  2. Re:All I know is by x2A · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but I didn't kill the deputy [webmaster]

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  3. Re:I did by myowntrueself · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wanted a website too complex for a single person.

    Some kind of self-defeating dating site then?

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  4. Re:oh no by macadamia_harold · · Score: 5, Funny

    Same thing that killed the guy who used to drive around bringing ice so your grandparents could keep the food in their icebox cold.

    Syphilis?

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  5. No, it was me. by kale77in · · Score: 5, Funny

    > ... it wasn't me.

    No, I was there, and... it was me.

    Well, there were a few of us involved. But my personal confession reads as follows:

    I wrote scripts that let end users change their own pages. I integrated Wysiwyg editors into CMS systems. I coded some wiki-markup processors. I made design changes friendly for non-techies. I wrote image thumbnailers, and CSS-generators that used customer preferences.

    I didn't know it was wrong! I was just following orders! Everyone was doing it! Lots of others killed him more than I did!

    *Moves to Brazil*

  6. Re:oh no by Mike89 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I only wonder how a webmaster would get syphilis.
    Rooting the wrong box?