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You can use a lot of that same logic to justify any elitism. If anybody can come to this restaurant, it won't be a great restaurant, so we have to exclude thos
by minikites 13y ago
You can use a lot of that same logic to justify any elitism.
If anybody can come to this restaurant, it won't be a great restaurant, so we have to exclude those people.
How many future web designers cut their teeth making terrible Geocities websites? Just because something is terrible doesn't mean you didn't learn something.
The forest would be pretty quiet if only the best birds sang.
- ebbv 13y agoYour analogy is terrible. The people coming to the restaurant don't make the food at the restaurant. If they did, that WOULD be a terrible restaurant. Your second argument in favor of Geocities is that future brilliant web designers may use it? Ok they might, but if Geocities didn't exist they'd use something else. And I'd argue they'd learn faster and better habits by learning with some other tool.
- minikites 13y agoThe patrons of a restaurant contribute their appearance. A fancy restaurant is going to want to exclude people that aren't fancy, because that would be contributing "garbage" to the atmosphere. If you were a librarian, would you only make the top 100 novels available? Why circulate books that aren't the best?
- macspoofing 13y agoBut it was a vast wasteland of garbage.
- Afforess 13y agoIs that inherently a bad thing?
- chris_mahan 13y agoSince Worse is Better, Garbage is Awesome?
- icebraining 13y agoIf anybody can come to this restaurant, it won't be a great restaurant, so we have to exclude those people. What do you think high prices do?
- minikites 13y agoThat's exactly my point. Neocities/Geocities is/was free, allowing anyone with an internet connection to create something. Setting up your own domain and webspace costs money.