HotDog HTML Editor: Nostalgia Retrotech

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I was working with a blog post template, but I went into the html code to fix a few things that I didn't like the way they looked. At that moment I felt a nostalgia remembering how I became interested in this language and learned to read and write in this language of labels.

It was at the end of 1996 or maybe it was at the beginning of 1997, unfortunately my memory is not what it was, but I remember that it was that time. In Venezuela, my native country and where I was living, the spread of the Web began to be notable from that time, certainly that already in specialized magazines I had come across topics about Internet services since 1991 and that already before from that you could learn about the great 'Network of Networks' if you were studying or working in the area of ​​informatics, systems engineering or computing.

What I find curious is that I was studying a university degree of a humanistic and social nature, but I spent it in the Faculty of Engineering and had some friends there who, between one thing and another, taught me and recommended good books to learn.

At that time, code editors were not so easy to use as nowadays and the web itself was a service that was very far from the current one, being that the use of text and few images was almost the rule and design it was of a very marked simplicity and practicality.

To code, personally they taught me with two different editors, actually one was the one that came as part of the Netscape Web Browser internal package and the other was HotDog, the first one I would like to write a post later, but the last one is from the that I want to talk about in this post.

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HotDog is the name of the HTML web editing tool developed by Sausage Software in the mid-1990s. At the time of its development, there were only a small number of HTML editors available on the market. HotDog gathered significant interest from web users (and then commercial users) due to its ease of use and "What you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG) interface.Source of text

The program was developed by the New Zealand Internet entrepreneur Steve Outtrim. In 2000, the ownership of the product was sold from Sausage Software and, despite still being called Sausage Software, is now run by a company unrelated to the Outtrim-founded Sausage Software.Source of text

While most of the coding was taught in a common text editor, this editor actually took a liking to this editor where many tasks were made easy by its built-in functions and it was just a click away. At the time I had friends who said that 'Real Men' programmed in pure code, but personally I am a very comfortable man and I love everything that helps to work better with minimal effort, that's why I always felt favorable with Visual programming editors even though they weren't entirely popular with specialists.

Nowadays I am from what they call 'Old School', but I suppose that with age you get used to that term, by the way, if it arouses your curiosity, there is still a backup of this editor that can be downloaded from https://archive.org/details/tucows_194462_HotDog_Professional On this same site they give this presentation of the software in question:

This is the latest version of this robust, flexible and user-friendly HTML editor. With millions of users worldwide since 1994, a first-class support network and access to the developer's other products and services, this editor will put you on the right path to creating a professional Web site. It has a built-in Web site management tool, navigation viewer, HTML property sheet and a built-in FTP utility. You can also import, create and edit CSS style sheets.

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