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It got to the point where it was too annoying to visit all those different websites with animated intros, weird menus, sounds etc. It was like 1000000 cdroms on
by buboard 7y ago
It got to the point where it was too annoying to visit all those different websites with animated intros, weird menus, sounds etc. It was like 1000000 cdroms on the browser. But yeah, thanks to 20 years of progress we can now stare at 1000000000 identical bootstrap homepages.
- justinator 7y agoAt the time, I remember being pretty OK with taking the terrible with the good - it all felt like experimenting to me, and I gravitated towards more of the designer-y/artsy sites, rather than the games and cartoons. This was back when David Carson was highly influential designer (for good or ill), and I was coming from skateboarding/snowboarding culture, which (and I sound so old) was a lot different, 20 years ago. Like it was COOL to be really into Typography, and the messier, the better. Because, "The 90's" I guess.
- bradstewart 7y agoI would be extremely happy if I saw "1000000000 identical bootstrap" websites every day. They're (usually) simple, and they (usually) work.
- buboard 7y agoI don't mind them either - i use bootstrap myself. But , i can't help to feel that i use it because i've given up on thinking i could do something functionally useful in today's web with my own CSS. It's become boring, tedious work, because mobile changes everything, you just can't do visually challenging designs there. Flash was overused as well - it was annoying. However, i believe that something being removed without having a better HTML equivalent is a bad sign of technological regression.