In 2010, Facebook was one of the best websites to browse. It was everything you wanted a central social media platform to be. You could stay updated about your

In 2010, Facebook was one of the best websites to browse. It was everything you wanted a central social media platform to be. You could stay updated about your friends, family and even host pages for your business on it. Everything was just so simple - because they respected what a "hyperlink" actually meant. Fast forward today, I click on a dropdown on a post with barely 3-4 options, there's a spinner, a dozen requests in the network panel and the menu doesn't even load and gives up. Frontend libraries like React made frontend so needlessly complex that they actually ended up killing the definition of what a hyperlink is. You click on a link today, it can either take you to where it's supposed to take you, open a dozen random popups or wipe your bank account clean. I miss the good old 2000s era where JS was minimal and the focus was on HYPER TEXT in HTML. We had good content, less frontend complexity. And we had flash for everything else.