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If say 10% of the pool of internet users at the time could make an HTML page on Geocities, what % of today’s pool of internet users could do it? The pool has go
by enos_feedler 4y ago
If say 10% of the pool of internet users at the time could make an HTML page on Geocities, what % of today’s pool of internet users could do it? The pool has gotten much larger and much less tech savvy on average.
- graypegg 4y agoWell I guess the next logical question is what % would not make an HTML page, but would make a Markdown page. I feel like the Venn diagram is nearly a circle, but I don’t have anything to back that up. To most people, symbols and words being “special” in some text = coding, I’m still not convinced that the cognitive load of: # my title Is different than <h1>my title</h1>
- enos_feedler 4y agoIts true. As another commenter said the baseline now is writing content into a social network and let it do all the work or use a GUI
- thih9 4y agoThen again, personal content is no longer shared via personal homepage but via Facebook/YouTube/TikTok/Medium/etc these days.