Graphical browsers were a fatal mistake.
Graphical browsers were a fatal mistake
Nathaniel Myers
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gopher.floodgap.com
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Charles Baker
Graphics weren't the real problem. It's the user side cancerous scripts that is the real issue.
Henry Scott
Graphics made the internet accessible to idiots.
Jackson Allen
>use google chrome
>8 tabs open
>21 processes in task manager
Connor Nguyen
>NOOOOO STOP MAKING MY SECRET CLUB MORE ACCESSIBLE
Jonathan Richardson
>have no tabs open except one: a youtube video
>CPU at 90%
>close tab
>computer freezes for 30 seconds
Christopher Reyes
>start windows
>21 instances of svchost.exe
Oliver Butler
>open clementine
>30 instances of tagreader
Landon Rogers
Come home, white man.
gopher.floodgap.com
Jose Reed
Client side stuff was the real mistake
Cooper Peterson
The issue is that you now need a fast CPU, lots of RAM, and ~5 MB data downloaded to render a page of text.
Xavier Stewart
There's literally nothing wrong with elitism. You only hate (and fear) it because you'll never measure up.
Owen Robinson
Project harder, loser
Gavin Jenkins
Making internet and computers in more accessible has created the ad filled DRM only-profits-mean-serious-business social networking shithole the internet (and media in general) today is.
Kayden Cox
fuck this shit I can't evne write properly anymore...
Ethan Richardson
still understandable bro
Hunter Thompson
Xavier Brown
Nope. Idiots at the time of op's pic didn't have the knowhow to set up a dialup stack and browser on windows 3.1 the idiocy started with oob providers like AOL and compuserve...
Jackson Mitchell
This! And cookies.
If you use a session hash and transmit it via cgi you don't even need a session cookie.
Nathaniel Cooper
Sure, you can encode it as a url parameter and stuff it in all the links. But then what do you do if a user wants to stay logged in?
Zachary Murphy
There are password managers that can log you in automatically.
Jose Turner
Still takes you through the login page and affects the user experience.
Another use of cookies is remembering the settings on the 4channel native extension.
Ryder Gomez
>pretending that the advent of facebook and the iphone made the internet better
that's not what you said, but I can infer that you would support those ideas
the truth is, the internet is not a good thing for a lot of people. Once it went mainstream (transitioned away from shut-ins to stacys and chads) a lot of the culture became less about functionality and more about design and "socializing", which ended up being pretty crummy
Don't be mad because you don't remember what it used to be like.
Christopher Howard
Read Marshall McLuhan
The problem isn't the people, it's the medium itself. The medium is the message. Put the smart people on facebook and you'll still get a shithole, put 89 IQ boomers on geocities and you'll get a creative community of individuals making their own websites. Technology can empower people as creators or it can turn them into consumers, it just so happens that smartphones as a medium entirely trend towards encouraging the worst behaviours in humanity. If they can be replaced with something better, people can actually be empowered by technology. Elitism isn't necessary.
This analysis can even be projected backwards to the eternal september. While the inflow of people to usenet was undoubtedly too rapid, a larger part of the issue was that web providers like AOL altered the nature of the medium by (inadvertently or otherwise) implying that Usenet was part of their walled garden. Better design on the part of service providers would have lead to a different outcome.
The key thing here is that content doesn't really matter, it's the medium. These rules apply whether you're talking about Anime, Politics, Trains or Zebras. It's the layout of the technology, both hardware and software, that shape user interactions.