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by tjansen
15 days ago
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I keep hearing that "the web is broken". But how exactly? What parts are broken in a way that makes it worse than it used to be at some point? I think people who write this just glorify the past. I don't want to go back. Not to the age of Flash ads that crashed the browser. Not to the age where people overused HTML frames and basic stuff like opening in a new window didn't work. Not to the age when every site used tables for layout, and they didn't work half of the time. Not to the time when every non-trivial application required Java and the whole computer froze even if you were one of the lucky ones who got it working. Not to IE-specific hacks and ActiveX. Not to image maps... And content-wise, there is more content than at any point in time. So what's the issue? |
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Nobody thinks HTML tables need a comeback. They think the days where individual people hosted individual sites with their own content, and formed communities around them through BBS or mailing list, was preferable to the one where Meta's algorithm decides 99% of what 99% of people see, optimized for "engagement," and applying their own censorship.
I'm not saying whether or not that's better I'm just explaining the point. Obviously nobody expects a Flash comeback. They miss the smaller-scale, more human-centric (or at least less corporate-dictated) web. Maybe they're nostalgic for something that didn't really exist, but obviously it has nothing to do with browser tech of the era