Behind every great webpage....
Tuesday Aug 14, 2007 · Categories: What's going on.-
We all know about the feminist slogan (let's be honest, it is a feminist slogan): "Behind every great man there's a great woman".
The origins are uncertain, but it's certainly much older than the Women's Movement of the 1960s/70s, which spawned other such slogans. For example, 'a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.'
The first printed citation can be found in the Texas newspaper The Port Arthur News, from February 1946. This was headed - "Meryll Frost - 'Most courageous athlete of 1945'":
"As he received his trophy, the plucky quarterback unfolded the story of how he 'came back'. He said 'They say behind every great man there's a woman. While I'm not a great man, there's a great woman behind me.'"
The use of the phrase in that quotation suggests it was well-known at the time, and may be much older than 1945.
But we use to say also (here at CSS Mania) that "behind every great webpage there's a great kid". This is our case (oh yes, CSS Mania is a great webpage). A kid taking care of everything behind CSS Mania. A kid taking care of our mouse, a kid taking care of our keyboard, a kid taking care of our database copied on CDs monthly, a kid taking care of our 100mbps server's cable.
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