Pac to the Future - Githubissues

furf commented 10 years ago

In 1997, on a mission to learn how to write DHTML, a 24-year-old web developer named David Furfero travelled down a dark tunnel of curiosity that ultimately led to a browser-based implementation of Pac-Man, built using JavaScript and <layer> elements. One of those design decisions proved to be a huge mistake. The other changed the course of Internet exploration forever.

Recently, during a hard-drive purge, his code was rediscovered.

What other huge mistakes and anti-pattern fossils are buried deep inside this 17-year-old code base?
What algorithmic gems and genius hacks will we unearth when we turn our spelunking headlamps upon these ancient scripts?
What have we learned as a developer culture since our earliest days of view-sourcery?
And, will I be able to get a version of Netscape 4 running long enough to demonstrate the game?

In Pac to the Future, we will travel back in time to code review the early experiments of a web alchemist to answer these questions and many others.*

*Not that many.

jennschiffer commented 10 years ago

:open_hands:

FotoVerite commented 10 years ago

:100:

dharden commented 10 years ago

😸

jennschiffer commented 10 years ago

<blink>YOUR TALK HAS BEEN ACCEPTED</blink>

Congrats |* SPEAKER_NAME *| on your excellent proposal which we will be looking forward to seeing at D.H.T.M.L.Conf 2000. Expect future correspondence with info about your stipend.

mikeal commented 9 years ago

If you haven't already, please register yourself as a speaker for JSFest:

https://ti.to/jsfest/oakland?release_id=nqflw0il0qw

If you get it in within the next few days you'll probably get a much nicer conference badge :)

And for any clever buggers who think they can register for free using that link, we will be checking the names against the accepted speakers list :)

jennschiffer / dhtmlconf

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