getting tired of hearing about the old web. and still not seeing anything that resembles it. everything still needs js. everything still needs cloudflare bypasses if you view it on tor. this includes whatever cool hacker site you think you have because i almost never see these. i have had a site with just plain html for 10 years and it has no nonsense just content, you can do this too, it doesnt need a movement that just talks about doing it.
not that it matters since the old web wasn't good. it was as terrible as now. the UI of absolutely every website ever made has been terrible quirky garbage compared to something like windows 98. Even back then there was a massive difference going from windows 98 (sane GUI) to web (garbage hackjob GUI + ads (YES REMEMBER 40 POPUPS? ADS? TOOLBARS? THE OLD WEB WAS NOT GOOD IT WAS A HELL JUST LIKE NOW)).
the content was never good either. every topic discussed on the web is little cliques who believe some easy to digest nonsense and then if you go skim some books on the subject the meta is completely different. except programming since that just centers around the web [1]. think of anything else like cooking or engineering
the web is a terrible protocol that should have died 20 years ago and been replaced with something that was modern at the time like freenet (and they should have made an alternative to html etc).
1. and this is ironic too since programming is the one field that is steered by the web's body of pseudoknowledge and as a result you have people who think C, PHP, and OOP are legitimate programming practices.
not that it matters since the old web wasn't good. it was as terrible as now. the UI of absolutely every website ever made has been terrible quirky garbage compared to something like windows 98. Even back then there was a massive difference going from windows 98 (sane GUI) to web (garbage hackjob GUI + ads (YES REMEMBER 40 POPUPS? ADS? TOOLBARS? THE OLD WEB WAS NOT GOOD IT WAS A HELL JUST LIKE NOW)).
the content was never good either. every topic discussed on the web is little cliques who believe some easy to digest nonsense and then if you go skim some books on the subject the meta is completely different. except programming since that just centers around the web [1]. think of anything else like cooking or engineering
the web is a terrible protocol that should have died 20 years ago and been replaced with something that was modern at the time like freenet (and they should have made an alternative to html etc).
1. and this is ironic too since programming is the one field that is steered by the web's body of pseudoknowledge and as a result you have people who think C, PHP, and OOP are legitimate programming practices.