> As much as this is probably not a popular opinion here, I think the days of Geocities and the like, with almost everyone wanting to Yep, I made a similar (bu

> As much as this is probably not a popular opinion here, I think the days of Geocities and the like, with almost everyone wanting to Yep, I made a similar (but less eloquently stated) observation a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3876834 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3876834 It now seems clear to me that the only way to keep the Web/Internet free is to narrow the gap between what programmers and non-progammers can make, at least prima facie. That is the real difference between now and then: kids and novices like me could make something that prima facie resembled what the professionals were doing, whether it was hacking DOS apps or simple web pages; at least I thought I had a chance of getting near the pros.