It’s really weird these posts that come up with this weird fiction that somehow the web was better in the past. I’ve seen the whole thing, was there every day

It’s really weird these posts that come up with this weird fiction that somehow the web was better in the past. I’ve seen the whole thing, was there every day for it, and it was never better in ye olde days. It was shit. And I also don’t buy the moaning and bitching about how bad JavaScript is, and how terrible web sites are these days. These curmudgeons invite you to join in their sad lament for the fabulous days of yore, and how everything’s just awful today. The truth is it’s an embarrassing wealth of riches on the web. Sites are (mostly) fast, broadband is fast, content is rich, lots is free, and there’s just an unbelievable number of incredible apps and sites. And it’s all driven by JavaScript, which isn’t a terrible language it turns out to be a warty, weird, inconsistent yet incredibly flexible and powerful language that has grown and stood the test of time. So when this latest grumbler invites you to grumble with him, maybe instead see reality instead of the fictional past he presents.