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I think the trouble is that the "web" is an overcomplicated BS clusterf___ for exploiting the plebes. Some guy posted here a week ago in wonderment over how Mo
by jstewartmobile 9y ago
I think the trouble is that the "web" is an overcomplicated BS clusterf___ for exploiting the plebes.
Some guy posted here a week ago in wonderment over how Mozilla can maintain a browser for a mere $400M+ a year. $400M+ a year!!!
If it takes that much engineering to deliver something which is not substantially different than what we were using 17 years ago, I'd count that as an engineering failure.
- paulryanrogers 9y agoAt a high level the needle hasn't moved much. But even little movements do add up. I'd rather not go back to a web before fuzz testing, fewer accessibility standards, and password managers. Not to mention AOL and its kind dividing the world into disconnected, walled gardens.
- jstewartmobile 9y agoI don't know how your year 2000 was, but in my year 2000, I had broadband, no AOL, and a functioning web browser (which was not IE or Netscape), that could: * Display web pages * Show images * Play songs and videos * Deliver applications (via Java instead of Javascript, granted) * Download files, and more! Almost anywhere outside of NYC and SoCal, $400M is still an epic shitload of money.