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There is nothing wrong with a healthy appreciation for the past. It's a modern phenomena to disregard everything that has gone before as "outdated". The tech
by recursivedoubts 3y ago
There is nothing wrong with a healthy appreciation for the past.
It's a modern phenomena to disregard everything that has gone before as "outdated". The tech industry has had a good long run of not looking back, but we are far enough along that a lot of good ideas that have been abandoned or left fallow are sitting around waiting to be re-implemented or reinterpreted.
Two examples I'm involved in:
- https://htmx.org https://htmx.org is building on the idea of hypermedia and has a distinct 90s flavor to it
- https://hyperscript.org https://hyperscript.org is a re-imagination of HyperTalk, the scripting language from HyperCard, for the web
I like the idea of building organically on the ideas of the past. Lots of people way smarter than me just happened to be born at a different time in the arc of the computer revolution. Why wouldn't I look back at what they did, play with it and maybe think about how it might apply to today?