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Thanks, I had the same thoughts, though I chuckled when I read: > we're almost leaving the 90's and entering the 00's. Because I feel the opposite: computers

by iffycan 10y ago

Thanks, I had the same thoughts, though I chuckled when I read: > we're almost leaving the 90's and entering the 00's. Because I feel the opposite: computers were first terminals attached to mainframes, then in the 90s the pendulum swung to personal computers free from the mainframe. In the 00s we swung back to the "cloud" (terminals dependent on the central computer) and LHTML feels like the pendulum swinging back to computers being able to run without the mainframe/cloud.

fiatjaf 10y ago
Yes, you are right, but I didn't thought in these terms. I was thinking that while web technology evolved so much in the last years, people would still pass around documents based on formats from the 90's (Word and Excel). I've just written "web technology" up there, but that is wrong, and I think LHTML shouldn't use the word "web" in its copy. What we have is "browser technology", "html+javascript renderers", anything like that. That is the technology that evolved. "Web" is a word that designates different things.