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    People genuinely thought ColdFusion would allow untrained businessmen to make complex websites with no coding, only markup. It could generously be described as a “web framework”, and it was released in 1995.

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      Wysiwygs were all the rage in the late 90s early 00s with a promise that the hard part of development was actually just doing the layout.

      Tools like frontpage have been tricking incredulous entrepreneurs that programming is easy since at least then.

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        In revenge for reminding me of Frontpage I will also mention Dreamweaver. God just the memory of trying to clean up copy text someone edited in Frontpage is giving me nausea.

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          In revenge for reminding me of Frontpage I will also mention Dreamweaver

          Small business owners learning about word2html.net for the first time…

          I’m just saying, this is an arms race and nobody will win.