[jtode]

I wish I could have a very long discussion of this. It is my belief that people think they want new stuff because marketing has told them that. The corporate internet is like someone took that process and welded their finger to the fast forward button, endless iterations of pointless redesigns, galaxies of UXes that only a few people in Boise Iowa ever visited, it's nuts.

I want the internet back where everything looked like that phpbb stuff. You just got the information then. Now you have to solve the CCS/JS puzzle first.

[nonethewiser]

Phpbb had a very windowsxp style. Im always trying to pinpoint what that is.

I think it includes smaller, denser text.

And something about the borders. Chunkier, more ornate, or griadients/light or something.

[WesolyKubeczek]

Remember how everyone was complaining how "heavy" all that glitz was? Images this, heavy HTML that, garishness this, load times that? I remember.

And then Windows 8 aesthetic came in, suddenly flat and a few colors with very reduced palette of available widgets became en vogue, but at the same time somehow the load and render times of sites bragging to be "simple" and "minimalistic" and "lightweight" soared with megabytes of assets none of your old sites sporting image borders and marble backgrounds ever had.