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in the 90s, unix developers built web frontends and they were built in this way - simple, with text. they had no skills in graphic design so they kept it simple
by claydavisss 8y ago
in the 90s, unix developers built web frontends and they were built in this way - simple, with text. they had no skills in graphic design so they kept it simple.
after 2000, graphic designers took over this work and evolved into "frontend" developers. although there were periodic wins like google maps that would have never been produced by the 90s greybeards...most of it has been an endless stream of garbage. but the goatee crowd should not bear all the the blame, some must also fall on the adtech people who insist I need 15 mb of tracking garbage to read a news story.
- dredmorbius 8y agoEvery so often I come across a simple, elegant site. Since I bitch about the others, some kudos: Matt Gemmell, from aa few years back: https://mattgemmell.com/staying-creative/ https://mattgemmell.com/staying-creative/ Matthew Graybosch https://www.matthewgraybosch.com/starbreaker/ https://www.matthewgraybosch.com/starbreaker/ Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into HTML5 is a classic. http://diveinto.html5doctor.com http://diveinto.html5doctor.com Outline is a lifesaver: https://outline.com https://outline.com (Especially for browsers/platforms w/o Reader Mode.) I've also got an entry in the motherlovin' website contest.