[supportengineer]

BASIC made it even easier to put things on a screen. We had commands like this:

In Apple BASIC:

- HPLOT x, y

- HPLOT x1, y1 TO x2, y2

In QuickBASIC on MS-DOS:

- PSET (x, y), color

In contrast I don't find HTML to be "stupidly simple" at all.