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I, for one, appreciate going back to the HTML4 roots I grew up with, when the web was much more simple and fast, and could easily be navigated with the Lynx bro
by geekamongus 9y ago
I, for one, appreciate going back to the HTML4 roots I grew up with, when the web was much more simple and fast, and could easily be navigated with the Lynx browser and your arrow keys.
Links should be blue and underlined.
- icedchai 9y agoHTML 4 is pretty modern. Do you remember Gopher?
- peatmoss 9y ago> Do you remember Gopher? Oh my yes. I even recently (as something of a joke) created a Gopher gateway to a web service. I miss Gopher in a lot of ways. It was my first real experience with the Internet (via the public library). The signal to noise ratio was good, and I think the result of making some very strong assumptions / opinions on what a document client-server should do, and how it should do it. I’d love to reimagine gopher for the 21st century—maybe with documents and document maps served up as S-expressions. But then I realize that making the document model more complex or flexible than it is could simply lead to a new webby mess. Gopher is kind of a museum piece right now. It’s a shame, because I feel like it has value in forcing you to think through a non-shitty information architecture. The web offers such a higher ceiling, but all too often a much lower floor as well.
- geekamongus 9y agoYes, it was in use at the library my freshman year in college (92).