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2026 JavaScript feels nothing like 1995 JavaScript. Likewise, both HTML and CSS have been gradually improved. Maybe all three are, in their respective current

2026 JavaScript feels nothing like 1995 JavaScript. Likewise, both HTML and CSS have been gradually improved. Maybe all three are, in their respective current form, good enough. Replacing them would almost certainly be a net loss.

swperb 4mo ago
That's fair. Maybe it's a nostalgia for Web 1.0, websites being ugly, but personable, that I would even offer the idea.
- FrankWilhoit 4mo ago
  Are you thinking of things like Time Cube? Seriously, anything written 30 years ago could still be written today and would still run. Standards are made by first-movers even if what they move is howling junk. Every technology has been immature when first brought to market. What we need to be looking at are the obstacles to maturation, which seem to be increasing.
  - swperb 4mo ago
    More vaguely GeoCities, Netscape, etc., and an ability to customize all corners of the internet that were yours to your liking. Just got me thinking if it could ever come back.
    - Jtsummers 4mo ago
      Why can't you do that now with HTML and CSS and JS?
      - swperb 4mo ago
        You can, but it feels that due to the homogenization of modern web, it's kind of a forgotten art that we can never revive. I'm hopeful, but realistic.