I agree. During the early days of my exposure to the (pre Google) internet, friends used to tell me URLs and I wrote them down in a pocketbook to chase them lat

I agree. During the early days of my exposure to the (pre Google) internet, friends used to tell me URLs and I wrote them down in a pocketbook to chase them later. Every site was something new. Now, everything is responsive, minimalistic, using one of 5 or 10 CSS frameworks. There's definitely progress but there's also something lost.