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Blogging/Authoring functionality needs to be built into the browser, as per the original vision for hypertext transfer. Browsers becoming read-only reduced web
by rchaud 4y ago
Blogging/Authoring functionality needs to be built into the browser, as per the original vision for hypertext transfer.
Browsers becoming read-only reduced web authoring to those that had the time and the means to learn HTML. Of course by 2005 blog software was common, so blogging was available to anyone who was computer literate.
18 years on, we are at another inflexion point now. At least a billion more people have been onboarded to the internet since 2005, and their first device was a smartphone. Computer literacy works entirely differently between the generation that grew up with mice and keyboards, and those that grew up with the peripheral-free UI of touch OSes. We could look under the hood of our computers, and often had no other choice. Smartphones on the other hand are so locked down, people can't even access a developer console on a browser.