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There’s some kind of lesson we maybe haven’t absorbed properly. Millions of people learned crazy shit like WordStar before Word, then MS-DOS before Windows, and
by tomcam 4y ago
There’s some kind of lesson we maybe haven’t absorbed properly. Millions of people learned crazy shit like WordStar before Word, then MS-DOS before Windows, and then building websites by hand using HTML. Millions.
Of course I completely recognize that improved software increased these markets by orders of magnitude, but to this day I remained fascinated that regular people managed to use such primitive tools for so long.
- chinchilla2020 4y agoThe modern UI design on smartphones and PCs has created a whole skillset of its own. Many boomer types find MSDOS to be simpler than windows. I would argue that in many ways html/css/javascript is simpler and more intuitive than wordpress. Text is such a simple way to organize information. I am still amazed how much information and precision you can pack into text that would take a 10 hour youtube to match.