The article is internally inconsistent. Consider the following quotes: > The early web itself, of course, was pretty exclusive: first, you had to be online, th

The article is internally inconsistent. Consider the following quotes: > The early web itself, of course, was pretty exclusive: first, you had to be online, then you had to know HTML, and that wasn’t enough, you also had to have a hosting account, and know how to use it. [1] > Culturally, though, it was devastating. Suddenly people weren’t creating homepages or even web pages, but they were writing web content in form fields and text areas inside a web page. [2] > Movable Type didn’t just kill off blog customization. It (and its competitors) actively killed other forms of web production. [3] > The old web, the cool web, the weird web, the hand-organized web… died. [4] > There are no more quirky homepages. There are no more amateur research librarians. All thanks to a quirky bit of software produced to alleviate the pain of a tiny subset of a very small audience. That’s not cool at all. [5] The claim about the death of the personal homepage puzzles me. If we consider statement (1), which says that people had to be fairly technically literate to set up their own, custom and quirky, homepages, then the same is true today. There are lots and lots of personal pages created by web developers for themselves; some quirky others less so. In absolute numbers, they must have multiplied. In relative numbers, they are dwarfed, of course, by all the social media apps that make it easy to just start typing into an input field somewhere. We have both the means for sufficiently skilled people to express their creativity, and low-entry-bar instruments for the rest. What's not to like? What exactly has died?