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I miss the times when websites weren't being designed by designers, and even when they were the practice of web-design was in its infancy so the well-trodden tr
by fredley 8y ago
I miss the times when websites weren't being designed by designers, and even when they were the practice of web-design was in its infancy so the well-trodden tropes of today's internet were not established yet.
It was creatively speaking a very exciting space - there were almost no rules yet, and you could do whatever and people wouldn't be turned off because your site looked weird or unusable, because all sites looked weird and were equally unusable.
There are many upsides to the web we have today: accessibility, ease of use, ease of discovery, rich content, but that creative space has gone and something with that fresh creative scope combined with massive, new audience may not exist again in my lifetime (or even ever - the internet was the first time you could throw up a page and have people all over the World see it - a larger network of eyeballs can never exist).
- sverige 8y agoI agree with everything you said except the part about rich content today. Maybe I'm nostalgic, but I think there's a much lower percentage of that today. Unless celebrity gossip and political self-promotion is considered rich content.
- fredley 8y agoI know exactly what you mean - when I said rich content though I was talking more about images, animations, video, games. In the early web over a 28.8k (or slower!) modem you'd have to make every non-text asset count and compress it (3-phase loading jpegs, anyone?), now you can put 10Mb of javascript executable in there and no one bats an eye.
- sverige 8y agoI misread your comment, of course! Yes, pictures were a calculated luxury. If you asked me to click to download a picture and it wasn't worth the five minute wait, you went on a certain list.