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Hate to go on a tangent but I can't believe jwz still hasn't updated his site to a more reader friendly color scheme.
by imjk 13y ago
Hate to go on a tangent but I can't believe jwz still hasn't updated his site to a more reader friendly color scheme.
- IvyMike 13y agoOnce upon a time green on black was all some of us had, 24/7. Somehow we coped.
- dangoldin 13y agoI remember our upgrade to 16 colors. That was life changing.
- 9ac345a5509a 13y agoOnce upon a time dialup was all some of us had, 24/7. Somehow we coped.
- meepmorp 13y agoOr amber on black, depending on what what terminals were available in the lab. As I recall, I coped with Usenet. In some ways, the Internet used to be much better than it is now.
- reeses 13y agoThat's because no one cared about the Internet back then. You could read everything interesting on Usenet, refresh rn, have a few new articles, and then...nothing. The web was the same way, except that we could kill time looking for material for our one-page sites on deformed baby skeletons.
- meepmorp 13y agoMaybe I just have wider interests, but I never lacked for interesting reading on usenet. And the trolling was better. I still think gopher was a better way to distribute information. Also, I miss talkd. I'll show my nostalgic self out now.
- reeses 13y agoRead faster. ;> Trolling was much, much better. There was a delicate obscenity to it that was appreciated by the smaller community.
- igravious 13y agoI, too, am old enough to remember monochrome terminals. I don't know if that makes me sad or proud. If you did not live through that era how would you know about that old tech? Cultural references? Responses to comments on HN? :)
- jmspring 13y agoJamie is likely more accomplished than you, still active, and probably doesn't give a shit. Every time there is a jwz link, this exact same comment is made.
- angersock 13y agoWhat? It's one of the best color schemes out there on the net.
- blisterpeanuts 13y agoI don't much care for the color scheme, either, but luckily it only bothers me for about 2 seconds, thanks to a handy Chrome extension "Change Colors".
- wes-exp 13y agoOn Apple devices, Safari's reader mode can fix that.
- qdog 13y agoYou don't normally use <color> on black? Get off my damn lawn, kid.