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

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

  • this_is_router@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Out of curiosity, I have always thought text only web pages would have been way more accessible at the time were RSS was still a thing, then the blinking ad ridden pages you get nowadays.

    You tell me that wasn’t a thing?

    • cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me
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      1 year ago

      a) RSS is still a thing, I use it every day.
      b) This author talks about a different kind of webpages that are “weird and quirky”. This is not exactly text only:

      edit:

      c) Ads are easily blocked. “Design” is much harder to fix. I rarely ever see anything blinking on modern pages, but I also use uBlock Origin everywhere, and uMatrix on desktop.