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>The average modern blog is a masterpiece of readability, usability, and frontend/backend engineering, compared to almost anything seen on the web during its "g

>The average modern blog is a masterpiece of readability, usability, and frontend/backend engineering, compared to almost anything seen on the web during its "golden age". Eh, maybe. There's a lot more scrolling, sure. And whizzy CSS tricks to make things rotate and gradients and whatever. And you can download a coolio new font so the site looks like it was typed on a 1932 Royal typewriter with a crooked arm on the "G" key. But then I go to something like the OpenBSD site, and I remember how much I liked the simplicity of Ye Olden Tymes. Back in the bad old times, there was no problem getting something centered when using tables. CSS only got that working reliably 17 minutes ago. And while making your page look like a brochure with invisible GIFs and table layouts was kinda heavy, we've replaced it with 100MB of Javascript and an embedded WASM running Emacs. If we had to run the modern Web on dial-up, we'd all be dead before Reddit loaded.

jaywalk 4y ago
> If we had to run the modern Web on dial-up, we'd all be dead before Reddit loaded. Well, we don't. That's a big reason why it exists today and didn't back then.
p-e-w 4y ago
> There's a lot more scrolling, sure. And whizzy CSS tricks to make things rotate and gradients and whatever. And you can download a coolio new font so the site looks like it was typed on a 1932 Royal typewriter with a crooked arm on the "G" key. What are you talking about? That description doesn't match 99% of blogs. In fact, rotating things and gradients were a staple of the old web, not the current one. > Back in the bad old times, there was no problem getting something centered when using tables. Cool. Except it only works on a standard sized desktop screen. And good luck using such a site if you are vision impaired and need assistive technologies. "Bad old times" indeed.

jaywalk 4y ago

> If we had to run the modern Web on dial-up, we'd all be dead before Reddit loaded. Well, we don't. That's a big reason why it exists today and didn't back then.

p-e-w 4y ago

> There's a lot more scrolling, sure. And whizzy CSS tricks to make things rotate and gradients and whatever. And you can download a coolio new font so the site looks like it was typed on a 1932 Royal typewriter with a crooked arm on the "G" key. What are you talking about? That description doesn't match 99% of blogs. In fact, rotating things and gradients were a staple of the old web, not the current one. > Back in the bad old times, there was no problem getting something centered when using tables. Cool. Except it only works on a standard sized desktop screen. And good luck using such a site if you are vision impaired and need assistive technologies. "Bad old times" indeed.