this might be the wrong place to ask this, but i've been noting a few trends over the last 20 years or so... why are web-developers so damned clever? do we rea

this might be the wrong place to ask this, but i've been noting a few trends over the last 20 years or so... why are web-developers so damned clever? do we really need to do all of this to ourselves? the web is just a port, a protocol, and a model for interaction, underneath it all. why on earth can we not live with the existing web, and move on towards inventing other spaces? a browser is just a shitty sandboxed OS with a declarative markup renderer. there's nothing to stop anyone from making a different client-side x-terminal... (as that's what people are trying to turn the web into, apparently)