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Happy Birthday XML!!!



Today, XML is 7 years old.

Irwin asked what we were doing at this time 7 years ago.  Well I was a Junior at Clinton High School in Clinton, Missouri taking PASCAL and BASIC.  I really hope they upgraded their development classes, maybe I should check.

What were you doing when XML was born?


posted @ Thursday, February 10, 2005 2:19 PM | Filed Under [ Xml ]

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Gravatar # re: Happy Birthday XML!!!
Posted by Kent Tegels on 2/10/2005 3:49 PM
Beating my head against SGML saying "Nothing good can come of this..." :)
Gravatar # re: Happy Birthday XML!!!
Posted by Steve Hartzog on 2/10/2005 4:11 PM
I was a DP2 in the US Navy assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency. I worked on the help desk supporting customers globally with our IBM Mainframe, Solaris and NT. I was just polishing up the first ever help desk tech support procedures website, and wrapping up requirements collection for the next generation help desk app: Remedy. I remember thinking that the client sucked, and the database was rambling and confusing (though not as bad as SMS 2.0).
Gravatar # re: Happy Birthday XML!!!
Posted by Ryan Gregg on 2/11/2005 3:41 PM
Let's see, 7 years ago I was a junior in high school back in Topeka, KS. Unfourtnately I wasn't even taking development classes because my school didn't offer anything I could stand to take in the CS area. I think instead I was trying to find ways to not do any real work so I could work on my pet projects at night and still pass school :-). In my spare time (aka most of the time) I was writing VB6 code that I sold via the Internet and trying to learn everything I could about Windows development.

Back then I didn't even know what SGML was, or that it would be the parent of something that would change so much (for better or worse).
Gravatar # re: Happy Birthday XML!!!
Posted by Scott on 2/16/2005 12:55 PM
sheesh, waiting on the result of my interview at KU med school and programming in VB 5.0/6.0 beta for Heartspring in Wichita, KS.

Since I don't sign my name "M.D." we know how the interview went. :) Strangely enough I started using XML as a data source for databound HTML elements around that time I think. Anyone remember those? http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/databind/datasources.asp
Gravatar # re: Happy Birthday XML!!!
Posted by chris on 3/29/2005 2:10 PM
hmmm... 7 years ago I was working for DoD as a civilian, doing VB5 and classic ASP development. Life has definitely improved since then. Incidentally, I was a junior in High School 18 years ago, wow...
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