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I'd be ok with an "Amish" inspired web development movement. Traditional HTML backed by CGI-BIN served by Apache on a Linux or BSD server would be great.

tcmart14 4y ago
I don't know why, but I could see this as a youtube comedy sketch.
whatshisface 4y ago
You will never get two people to agree on when web technological progress should have been frozen. Here is an essay that essentially address this: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
- badpun 4y ago
  What is this web technology progress you refer to?
- lockhouse 4y ago
  I think the <blink> element is where we we should freeze it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element
  - whatshisface 4y ago
    Then you will be happy to learn that modern browser vendors all decided to freeze the blink element. :-)
  - SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
    <marquee>
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]
- ARandomerDude 4y ago
  And yet the Amish have figured out how to make it work.
  - skinnyarms 4y ago
    Is it working? Give "Amish abuse" a search in google, limiting people's access to communication can also make it hard for them to get help or to realize that they have access to other options a few miles up the road.
  - emodendroket 4y ago
    Oh yeah? What Web sites are they hosting?
  - pvaldes 4y ago
    It works because they just outsorced things like defense or healthcare. Is easy to brag about how you don't need technology when somewhere a team of extremely sophisticated machines are deployed pointing towards the sky to save the day in case that you would be bombed. An entirely independent Amish nation would be probably eaten by their neighbors or by the market in months. More people died in the Ukranian war in a year than the whole remaining Amish population. And their life style proven to be very fragile acting against things like Covid. They suffer also still from occasional outbreaks of Measles and Polio [1] that were eliminated in the rest of US by the use of vaccines. Living in a different century can seem idyllic, but it has a price. [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid-amish-idUSL2N2NZ1TY https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid-amish-idUSL2...
    - WeylandYutani 4y ago
      Yeah I see a lot of people on the right whine about "home steaders". Well I read Lucky Luke as a kid and guess who ended up saving the settlers every single time? The cavalry. Sent by the Feds in Washington.
- lordfrito 4y ago
  I think we can all agree that the web never got better than this. [1] It's been downhill ever since. [1] https://archive.is/C3VTT https://archive.is/C3VTT
  - SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
    I thought it was going to be something fun like Hamster Dance. This is... Dark.
  - lockhouse 4y ago
    Needs a "This site best viewed in Netscape Navigator 3" banner and a visitors counter to be peak Internet for me.
- emodendroket 4y ago
  Plus people have rose-tinted goggles. I see people saying now they're sad Flash Web sites are dead. What? Everyone hated Flash Web sites. That is like saying you miss squeegee men in New York. You might not like the means taken to get rid of them or what New York has become but nobody actually liked that experience.
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
    Miss flash websites? I don't really see that opinion very often. Missing flash on the other hand it fairly common because it was a tool that lowered barriers to entry for animation and game development that doesn't seem to have a good replacement in the current web.
    - emodendroket 4y ago
      Hey, right here some people are saying they’re good. You just had to wait a bit
  - Moru 4y ago
    The ones that miss Flash websites are the ones that learned to use flash and nothing else. That was their art tool that they could use and now they have nothing. I have a friend that still complains about it.
    - hutzlibu 4y ago
      Did you ever created a simple arcade game? There is indead still nothing, that beats flash in this regard. And flash games were somewhat popular with users as well.
      - Moru 4y ago
        I didn't do anything in flash since it cost money and I had none at the time. I was making games with other tools and programming languages. Played a lot of flash games too. The homepages made purely in flash was realy annoying though.
- snvzz 4y ago
  >You will never get two people to agree on when web technological progress should have been frozen. I am fairly sure most of us can agree with: Not yet.
- teddyh 4y ago
  “The peak of your civilization. I say ‘your civilization’ because as soon as we started thinking for you, it became our civilization, which is, of course, what this is all about.” — Agent Smith, The Matrix, 1999
begriffs 4y ago
https://learnbchs.org/index.html https://learnbchs.org/index.html
balthigor 4y ago
Those were the days. Slackware in a box of floppy disks. Now where the heck is 6 of 14?
- Moru 4y ago
  It doesn't really matter where #6 is, #4 and #8-9 are corrupt anyway.

tcmart14 4y ago

I don't know why, but I could see this as a youtube comedy sketch.

whatshisface 4y ago

You will never get two people to agree on when web technological progress should have been frozen. Here is an essay that essentially address this: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

badpun 4y ago
What is this web technology progress you refer to?
lockhouse 4y ago
I think the <blink> element is where we we should freeze it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element
- whatshisface 4y ago
  Then you will be happy to learn that modern browser vendors all decided to freeze the blink element. :-)
- SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
  <marquee>
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
ARandomerDude 4y ago
And yet the Amish have figured out how to make it work.
- skinnyarms 4y ago
  Is it working? Give "Amish abuse" a search in google, limiting people's access to communication can also make it hard for them to get help or to realize that they have access to other options a few miles up the road.
- emodendroket 4y ago
  Oh yeah? What Web sites are they hosting?
- pvaldes 4y ago
  It works because they just outsorced things like defense or healthcare. Is easy to brag about how you don't need technology when somewhere a team of extremely sophisticated machines are deployed pointing towards the sky to save the day in case that you would be bombed. An entirely independent Amish nation would be probably eaten by their neighbors or by the market in months. More people died in the Ukranian war in a year than the whole remaining Amish population. And their life style proven to be very fragile acting against things like Covid. They suffer also still from occasional outbreaks of Measles and Polio [1] that were eliminated in the rest of US by the use of vaccines. Living in a different century can seem idyllic, but it has a price. [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid-amish-idUSL2N2NZ1TY https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid-amish-idUSL2...
  - WeylandYutani 4y ago
    Yeah I see a lot of people on the right whine about "home steaders". Well I read Lucky Luke as a kid and guess who ended up saving the settlers every single time? The cavalry. Sent by the Feds in Washington.
lordfrito 4y ago
I think we can all agree that the web never got better than this. [1] It's been downhill ever since. [1] https://archive.is/C3VTT https://archive.is/C3VTT
- SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
  I thought it was going to be something fun like Hamster Dance. This is... Dark.
- lockhouse 4y ago
  Needs a "This site best viewed in Netscape Navigator 3" banner and a visitors counter to be peak Internet for me.
emodendroket 4y ago
Plus people have rose-tinted goggles. I see people saying now they're sad Flash Web sites are dead. What? Everyone hated Flash Web sites. That is like saying you miss squeegee men in New York. You might not like the means taken to get rid of them or what New York has become but nobody actually liked that experience.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
  Miss flash websites? I don't really see that opinion very often. Missing flash on the other hand it fairly common because it was a tool that lowered barriers to entry for animation and game development that doesn't seem to have a good replacement in the current web.
  - emodendroket 4y ago
    Hey, right here some people are saying they’re good. You just had to wait a bit
- Moru 4y ago
  The ones that miss Flash websites are the ones that learned to use flash and nothing else. That was their art tool that they could use and now they have nothing. I have a friend that still complains about it.
  - hutzlibu 4y ago
    Did you ever created a simple arcade game? There is indead still nothing, that beats flash in this regard. And flash games were somewhat popular with users as well.
    - Moru 4y ago
      I didn't do anything in flash since it cost money and I had none at the time. I was making games with other tools and programming languages. Played a lot of flash games too. The homepages made purely in flash was realy annoying though.
snvzz 4y ago
>You will never get two people to agree on when web technological progress should have been frozen. I am fairly sure most of us can agree with: Not yet.
teddyh 4y ago
“The peak of your civilization. I say ‘your civilization’ because as soon as we started thinking for you, it became our civilization, which is, of course, what this is all about.” — Agent Smith, The Matrix, 1999

begriffs 4y ago

https://learnbchs.org/index.html https://learnbchs.org/index.html

balthigor 4y ago

Those were the days. Slackware in a box of floppy disks. Now where the heck is 6 of 14?

Moru 4y ago
It doesn't really matter where #6 is, #4 and #8-9 are corrupt anyway.