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The web is fucked and there’s nothing we can do about it. Kev Quirk looks back fondly at Web 1.0.

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[–] Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pseudo romanticizing of the old web. Yeah, I don't like that we're heading into a corporate super controlled web but as of now, that still vastly better than it used to be before search engines were a thing. I also only look back with a nostalgic eye at the time of gaming magazines because it was fun, but it's so much better to be able to Google stuff now. I don't miss dealing with web design out of order, wild west style.

Old website navigation was often bad and ugly. Everyone had a forum but you never found what you were looking for. And web design unavoidably had to change to allow better mobile access. You could no longer load in font size 6 blue on top of blue as that would (correctly so) annoy people and make them stop visiting your page, when ther was a better site available.

Now social media isn't necessarily bad, we're on one after all, but there are definitely harmful social media who are just made for ragebait, like Twitter and Facebook.

It's a fact though that you need more googlefu now, to find what you're looking for.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you see an article dismiss problems with "but that was all part of the fun", you know that usability isn't high on the author's agenda.

[–] thebeardedpotato@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The fact that he seems to be praising GeoCities websites says it all