[x3d-public] My request: backstory

[doug sanden]

Alan,
I would go back a bit farther in time. Blacksmithing is an analogy I like to apply to codesmithing.
http://ww2.glenbow.org/dbimages/arc5/c/na-2466-1.jpg
We don't use blacksmiths now. If our wheel breaks, instead of asking a local shop to hammer molten metal to repair it, we buy a new wheel which comes through a distribution channel from a mass manufacturer. Same with many computer skills - the last 4 decades have gone through a transition similar to that seen in metal work: from local shops doing custom laborious work, to off-the-shelf efficiently mass-manufactured and distributed low cost software and pre-templated web components and media snippets. There's a bit of local labor to order the right parts and bolt them together, and a bit of labor in the upstream efficient manufacturing. But for those seeking that old-fashioned role of master craftsman -sweat pouring from the brow- it's rare these days.
-Doug

>
> The backstory of my post the other day is that I've been out of work for
> 3 yrs, I don't have a website...
>
> Recruiters keep telling me that my skills are hopelessly obsolete, so
> therefore I thought I would design a personal homepage that would
> consist of a 3D VR electronics/computer store, set in roughly 1978, with
> a bunch of interactive props, of a store that had been in business for
> like 50 years... The theme of the setting would be how old-fashioned I
> was and how obsolete everything I knew was. The real message being the
> medium...