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I've been building websites since the mid-90s, and I'm not convinced the past was any better than the present.

• lucideer 8y ago
  As an attempt to sway you, consider that I'm in no way suggesting that the past was good, rather just that the present is worse. Also, a caveat is that I'm not saying it was a better/nicer/more fulfilling experience doing frontend development in the past (e.g. IE <7), but rather that developers put in more effort, were more considerate, and generally achieved what little they managed to achieve within (what would today be considered) severely restricted environments, with far fewer resources / tools at their disposal. Whether the output of that work was a better product is debatable, but I don't think it's untrue that devs did more with less (and when I say "more", I don't mean mean bloat).