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by tjr 2y ago
https://philip.greenspun.com/writing/changed-by-web-and-weblog https://philip.greenspun.com/writing/changed-by-web-and-webl...
What was missing from the 1990 Web? The original Web did not effectively support the one-paragraph idea. A reader who encountered a Web page containing only one paragraph would have been startled and wondered if the page had been left unfinished.
- thfuran 2y agoHow startling would that really be? Seems like half the internet claimed to be under construction.
- ben_w 2y agoIf you had a dialup modem, like mine, that only ever got 1-2 kilobytes per second despite being theoretically 56k, pages did sometimes stop loading in the middle without any
- throwup238 2y ago> If you had a dialup modem, like mine, that only ever got 1-2 kilobytes per second despite being theoretically 56k, pages did sometimes stop loading in the middle without any [cuts off] Are you still using it?
- myhf 2y agoBut this isn't a one-paragraph idea, it's 10 paragraphs suggesting that there will be an idea, then one paragraph suggesting that there has been an idea.