The web is designed by marketing people and implemented by programmers. That's because the incentive to fund the implementation comes from the desire to sell t

The web is designed by marketing people and implemented by programmers. That's because the incentive to fund the implementation comes from the desire to sell things. One of the things that I always found interesting about the web was that as soon as there was a graphical browser, things went in that direction pretty quickly. Before that, our internet experiences were pretty technical in nature. More than the web, I remember being blown away by mail and news readers, like nn or gnus. The things we built were very practical in nature. Contrast that to the demo scene. To me, the demo scene epitomises the marriage of technical expertise and artistic endeavour. Talk about "well crafted, clean and slim experiences that are thoughtful and not bloated". Take all that and crank it up to 11 :-) Of course, not necessarily utilitarian. I'd love to see some artistically inclined people respin some of the concepts of the demo scene and build something practical that also has the ability to floor you from a technical and experience-oriented perspective. Of course, you could never fund it (that's why the marketers dominate the web), but the world of hacking has never needed funding. We're "starving artists" who aren't actually starving because we have high paying side gigs ;-).