[rising-sky]

At the bottom of the page, in the footer, there's this text:

> Half-baked ideas for a better future.

Maybe the article is intentionally supposed to read like that?

[tjr]

https://philip.greenspun.com/writing/changed-by-web-and-webl...

What was missing from the 1990 Web? The original Web did not effectively support the one-paragraph idea. A reader who encountered a Web page containing only one paragraph would have been startled and wondered if the page had been left unfinished.

[thfuran]

How startling would that really be? Seems like half the internet claimed to be under construction.

[ben_w]

If you had a dialup modem, like mine, that only ever got 1-2 kilobytes per second despite being theoretically 56k, pages did sometimes stop loading in the middle without any

[throwup238]

> If you had a dialup modem, like mine, that only ever got 1-2 kilobytes per second despite being theoretically 56k, pages did sometimes stop loading in the middle without any [cuts off]

Are you still using it?

[myhf]

But this isn't a one-paragraph idea, it's 10 paragraphs suggesting that there will be an idea, then one paragraph suggesting that there has been an idea.

[carlmr]

Maybe let AI finish the article.