> There was a mission. A serious social mission. Not just, "make money" or "build cool stuff" or anything. There was a buzz that made you feel like you were pla

> There was a mission. A serious social mission. Not just, "make money" or "build cool stuff" or anything. There was a buzz that made you feel like you were playing your role in mankinds intellectual history. That's an amazing feeling that I've never been able to replicate. This resonates with me. Sometimes we developers need to get off the "move fast and break stuff" bandwagon (which has been ongoing for over decades now), and consider we're the ones responsible for preserving almost all human digital heritage of our epoch. There's a simple and obvious method to implement preservation-friendly content implicit in the web architecture: emit/materialize everything as plain HTML, even dynamic content. This is of course antithetical to most of this decade's SPA web development trends, but I think it's worth drawing a line between web content (worth preserving in the first place) and web apps (which have highly volatile content not worth preserving). I feel like this distinction isn't considered sufficiently in our staged web app architecture dicussions which are all about your latest JS MVw framework, to the degree that newby web devs really don't learn the fundamentals of HTML etc. anymore, and are lead to use React, Vue, etc. for content-based web sites.