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The first HTML editor I used was HoTMetaL in 1994, but I'm sure I used HotDog at some point as well. If you didn't know, the world wide web was really "hot" back then.

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webdesignmuseum.orgHotDog 1.0 in 1995On June 29, 1995, the Australian software company Sausage Software officially released the first version of the HotDog 1.0 web editor.

27/7/26, 3:54 pm0 reposts5 likes

Andrew Dupont

@andrewdupont.net

27 July

The utter tragedy of Windows 3.1/95 toolbars

Andy 🛋️

@andycouch.com

27 July

Before switching to Mac in 2007 (when joining frog), I was still using Edit+ on Windows XP and the toolbars were still atrocious.

Andrew Dupont

@andrewdupont.net

27 July

I, too, used EditPlus back in the Windows XP days. The killer feature was writing files directly to a remote server via FTP back when I thought that was a reasonable way to do web development.

Andy 🛋️

@andycouch.com

27 July

When I worked at Hitachi, we all did live SFTP editing on a dev server and manually copied the files to production, also using SFTP. Good times! I do still find myself wanting to do that with VS Code today and getting annoyed when it doesn't work, so I just edit through Transmit.

Andy 🛋️

@andycouch.com

27 July

...and this editor is still available to download (last updated 12 days ago!) so it might continue to look awful on Windows 11.