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I'm so glad we've learned these days with 10,000KB of JS for 1KB of text rendered in tiny, hairline thin fonts on no-contrast backgrounds. It's honestly always
by kristopolous 8y ago
I'm so glad we've learned these days with 10,000KB of JS for 1KB of text rendered in tiny, hairline thin fonts on no-contrast backgrounds.
It's honestly always been bad ... before the web you'd dial into terminal based systems (BBS) and be assaulted with a perverse amount of ANSI escape codes and 8-bit extended ASCII flying around the screen and blinking at you (interfaces like this: https://s0.mundogamers.com/uploaded/bbsmenu.jpg https://s0.mundogamers.com/uploaded/bbsmenu.jpg). In between the two eras even IRC and UseNet got full of crufty ASCII art followed by leet-speak spelled weirdly cased words...it was illegible, unappealing and awful.
Having the maturity to know when to stop and having the control to know what not to do have always been talents far more rare than we'd prefer.
- Fjolsvith 8y agoFrankly, that was not an artistic example of the BBS scene. Here is one that had aesthetically pleasing features: https://cleaner.ansilove.org/bbs.html https://cleaner.ansilove.org/bbs.html And, if you want to see a live version of a sweet looking BBS, check out this one in your telnet app: telnet: absinthe.darktech.org:23
- kristopolous 8y agoWell sure, you can always cherry-pick good examples of anything.