[firefax]

I really like the 90s-esque aesthetic of sites like HN.

Low bandwidth, minimal in an artistic way.

I wish less sites would try to make them look like a wordpress from the early twenty aughts.

[Elfener]

You don't even need to do a certain aesthetic to make your website fast. Just send your entire content in the HTML, instead of needing extra HTTP requests for JS and then more HTML before having all the stuff for your first render.

[firefax]

[matrix voice]

What if I told you that you don't need javascript?

[elxr]

The early internet aesthetic is why, as much as I dislike the site's culture, I continue to use reddit + RES.

The UI, the minimal buttons, the tight paddings, the lack of pop-in, the complete lack of animations; these have all been essentially unchanged for the past decade. Even the dark mode colors look exactly as it did the first time I switched it on.