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I think there's another point to consider with older technology: It was hard to use! The technical know-how required to get a site online in the 90's, early 200
by allo37 4y ago
I think there's another point to consider with older technology: It was hard to use! The technical know-how required to get a site online in the 90's, early 2000's was a big filter for the quality of its content.
- krapp 4y ago>The technical know-how required to get a site online in the 90's, early 2000's was a big filter for the quality of its content. It really wasn't. I don't know why people here believe that being able to set up a web server and write HTML has any relationship to the quality of the content being marked up and served. They're completely different things. And by then Geocities, etc. were a thing and it didn't exactly take an engineering degree to use those.
- allo37 4y agoDid it take an engineering degree? Of course not. But knowing how to write HTML and get it on the internet was harder than, say, sending a tweet is today. I might also just not be remembering all the crappy Geocities sites with perfect clarity :)
- dolni 4y agoWhen I was ten years old (late 90s) I was able to publish a site using a WYSIWYG host of the time (Homestead). It was crappy, of course, but it was something. And it was easy.