R.I.P. WebMonkey

I came across this article in Wired, saying Webmonkey is going to be officially shut down, even though though the articles are still up at the moment.

It's kinda old news, but I'm still playing catch up on some stuff this week... & just taking a quick moment to say goodbye.

I learned a lot of stuff via webmonkey. I can remember distinctly years ago starting to wrap my head around CSS and finding their articles to be a big help, same with PHP session handling and javascript. I kept a lot of their articles bookmarked because I was constantly forwarding them onto people when it came up: their Introduction to Programming & their Server-side Scripting Language Shootout being the most common.

Excerpt:

...Launched in August 1996 as part of a fast-growing collection of websites funded by the original owners of Wired magazine, Webmonkey instantly became the surprise hit.
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All that came to an abrupt end. When advertising revenues dried up during the dot-com bust in early 2000, Webmonkey curtailed its staff from ten to three. The remaining original staffers quit, most citing frustration with...

Their death seems to have been in-built, as they failed to capitalize on their momentum. Content barely changed for ages, and while the articles they had were great, especially for a n00b, they never progressed and became more in depth. Other sites with similar content have flourished, simply by using Gates' adage: momentum begets momentum.

Either way, R.I.P. webmonkey.