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I agree with you, it really was exciting. It was almost like the opposite of the "Everything is awesome and no one is happy" time we're living in now? Everythi

I agree with you, it really was exciting. It was almost like the opposite of the "Everything is awesome and no one is happy" time we're living in now? Everything was awful, and everyone was happy. Remember being super excited the first time you saw an animated GIF!? Or you could mouse-over a picture and there would be a popup that said "hey don't touch my face"! Everything was slow and crashed all the time, but it was new and really interesting and fun. People were just figuring things out, and the new stuff that was coming out was amazing at the time. Everything was getting faster and better, but damn, it was hard to get anything done.

krapp 6y ago
I literally remember the day in my school library when I found out framesets were a thing and it blew my mind that this part of the webpage could move independently from that part. And no one even uses framesets anymore. And you're right - nowadays we can stream video, audio, games, compile and run code from numerous languages right in the browser, and the web has more interesting and rich content than ever, but everyone is mad because that means the web has moved beyond their childhoods and gotten complicated with time.
- toyg 6y ago
  > everyone is mad because that means the web has moved beyond their childhoods There is a bit of that, but there is also a realization that we probably did not really need most of these "advancements".
  - krapp 6y ago
    Arguably, the web doesn't need to be anything but a simulation of paper documents connected with hyperlinks, but if it had stayed that way, the world would have been denied a great deal of creative and cultural expression in other media (including code.) For all its faults, both in the language and the ways that it's been implemented, Javascript on the web launched a revolution in writing and publishing code akin to what the Gutenberg press did for text.
anentropic 6y ago
> Everything was awful, and everyone was happy. Totally this! Not sure if times were actually different, or it's just that I was young then...

krapp 6y ago

I literally remember the day in my school library when I found out framesets were a thing and it blew my mind that this part of the webpage could move independently from that part. And no one even uses framesets anymore. And you're right - nowadays we can stream video, audio, games, compile and run code from numerous languages right in the browser, and the web has more interesting and rich content than ever, but everyone is mad because that means the web has moved beyond their childhoods and gotten complicated with time.

toyg 6y ago
> everyone is mad because that means the web has moved beyond their childhoods There is a bit of that, but there is also a realization that we probably did not really need most of these "advancements".
- krapp 6y ago
  Arguably, the web doesn't need to be anything but a simulation of paper documents connected with hyperlinks, but if it had stayed that way, the world would have been denied a great deal of creative and cultural expression in other media (including code.) For all its faults, both in the language and the ways that it's been implemented, Javascript on the web launched a revolution in writing and publishing code akin to what the Gutenberg press did for text.

anentropic 6y ago

> Everything was awful, and everyone was happy. Totally this! Not sure if times were actually different, or it's just that I was young then...