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I was merely pointing out that there isn't anything special with most of these sites. No hate. I love them, and use most of them on a daily basis. Just pointin
by confluence 14y ago
I was merely pointing out that there isn't anything special with most of these sites. No hate. I love them, and use most of them on a daily basis.
Just pointing out something I found highly curious.
- lmm 14y agoYou might as well say "Most top 100 websites I see are just /code running on a computer/"
- confluence 14y agoCorrect. I shared this thought because I believed that the realisation that most websites are simply database frontends was an unique, interesting and somewhat liberating thought. I apologize if it feels like I'm stating the obvious, but it was a startling realisation to me. I always kept each site/company in their separate boxes, when in fact they all do rather similar things, with different branding.
- gaius 14y agoYes, since the 1970s or perhaps earlier, most computer software has been "forms" (screens for a user to enter some information to be stored in a DB) and "reports" (screens that present information stored in a DB to the user). That's it. Green screens, client-server, web sites, etc are all variations on a theme. The "social network" aspects of FB could perfectly well have been done on an IBM mainframe with 3270 terminals running IMS, 40 years ago.