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Much of what we call "tech" is 10 to 20 old technology. We still call an interactive website tech, but in reality, they're no more cutting edge now than CDs wer
by AlchemistCamp 6y ago
Much of what we call "tech" is 10 to 20 old technology. We still call an interactive website tech, but in reality, they're no more cutting edge now than CDs were in 2010.
The fact that it's not new technology is part of why there's so much competition and so much of the market is controlled by established players.
It used to be possible to reach a massive audience with a trivial iPhone app 10 years ago or with a plain text blog a few years before that.
New those spaces are crowded but there are new ones opening up.
- ggm 6y agoMike Lesk on UUCP: "i occupied a vacuum. UUCP was hard to replace because they had to push me aside"
- imtringued 6y agoI'd say most of what we consider a webapp has been "perfected" around 10 years ago. There have been some major usability upgrades such as flexbox but again this is only a productivity booster. It was possible to do everything without flexbox and the price you had to pay was only the cost of your sanity. Now that youtube has changed its algorithm I keep seeing videos from 2013 and in terms of quality they might as well be made in 2020. 1080p has become a well established standard and Youtube no longer skimps heavily on compression. The biggest reason why videos look "old" today is that people just compress videos heavily.