It’s actually worse now and when I use a normie computer without an adblocker I don’t understand how anyone can use the modern web. I hate the web even with an ad blocker.
I am still angry that flash ever existed
Frick Adobe, I hope everyone who works at that company, everyone who has ever worked at that company, their families, and their pets all get drowned in acid. That goes for the Macromedia outfit that they acquired it from, too.
What do you miss exactly? Those personal sites were never that interesting anyway. Why do you want to read some random person's thought about anything? Most of the old web sites were boring as frick. There are a handful of people who write interesting stuff and they're still out there.
this is kind of sad because you can tell this person saw what the internet was becoming, and was sort of desperately trying to stop it- but this attempt seems so pathetic in retrospect after seeing how powerful big tech has become.
the old web was like childhood, naive optimism, innocent fun, everything was slow, like the years of childhood
the new web is adulthood, pay for everything, unable to enjoy anything, eveyrthing moves and changes so fast like adulthood. before you realise you are old.
the old web was like childhood, naive optimism, innocent fun, everything was slow, like the years of childhood
the new web is adulthood, pay for everything, unable to enjoy anything, eveyrthing moves and changes so fast like adulthood. before you realise you are old.
This "old internet" nostalgia is beyond cringe. I'm sure it's the same type of people who are nostalgic about 80s (born in 2004), nostalgic about "old anime" (watched one episode of dragonball), nostalgic about old music (listened to nu-metal compilation), etc.
"thus of old thus of new" isn't a meme, it's very real incentive alignment and it's never going to change for as long as people die. older generations want the rules to stay the same so that they can coast and protect their moat that keeps younger generations out and younger generations want the rules to change so that they can get in. denying that things do, in fact, change is just part of the transition process from being young to being middle aged
It has nothing to fricking do with that. Old Internet was new, exciting, experimental, fast, efficient, with millions of individual sites.
New Internet is centralized, cold, corporate, bloated af, slow af, boring, where every damn page looks the same and is loaded with ads, codes of conduct, legalese, censorship, spying, yet is designed to be addictive as crack to fricking normies. If you don’t hate the modern Internet you’re a npc.
And to add to that: when print was still relevant there were rules for professional graphic design yet somehow magazines were still creative and interesting. The modern web is just the same cookie cutter WordPress themes over and over, even when it’s not WP.
holy shit
It is my greatest ally!
The love-child of "The west has fallen" and the happy merchant
i was here
bring it back then anon
I don't.
get that flatshit outta here the ads looked way better than that
Skill issue.
Yeah now they just embed these things directly into the page. Using the internet without an adblocker is easily as bad as it was in the late 90s.
It’s actually worse now and when I use a normie computer without an adblocker I don’t understand how anyone can use the modern web. I hate the web even with an ad blocker.
>when the guy who 'invented' the popup ad formally apologizes to humanity
I've forgiven him. I won't forgive the dentist who hired him, however.
I am still angry that flash ever existed
Frick Adobe, I hope everyone who works at that company, everyone who has ever worked at that company, their families, and their pets all get drowned in acid. That goes for the Macromedia outfit that they acquired it from, too.
It was Macromedia who came up with it.
>the old web
>"This website requires Internet Explorer 6 or later"
We'll always have zombo.com
I didn't know about this one despite being 30. Thanks for posting it
>zombo.com is reduced to a "this one"
literal yikes
make a website like that and submit to wiby.me then, or is reminiscing easier for you?
What do you miss exactly? Those personal sites were never that interesting anyway. Why do you want to read some random person's thought about anything? Most of the old web sites were boring as frick. There are a handful of people who write interesting stuff and they're still out there.
OY VEY JUST READ ~~*LE YCOMBINATOR FOUNDERS THOUGHTS*~~ GOY
graphic design my passion
this is kind of sad because you can tell this person saw what the internet was becoming, and was sort of desperately trying to stop it- but this attempt seems so pathetic in retrospect after seeing how powerful big tech has become.
the old web was like childhood, naive optimism, innocent fun, everything was slow, like the years of childhood
the new web is adulthood, pay for everything, unable to enjoy anything, eveyrthing moves and changes so fast like adulthood. before you realise you are old.
>before you realise you are old.
deprecated
Simpler times
soul
so just rerender everything? i dont think it's that hard mate
This "old internet" nostalgia is beyond cringe. I'm sure it's the same type of people who are nostalgic about 80s (born in 2004), nostalgic about "old anime" (watched one episode of dragonball), nostalgic about old music (listened to nu-metal compilation), etc.
"thus of old thus of new" isn't a meme, it's very real incentive alignment and it's never going to change for as long as people die. older generations want the rules to stay the same so that they can coast and protect their moat that keeps younger generations out and younger generations want the rules to change so that they can get in. denying that things do, in fact, change is just part of the transition process from being young to being middle aged
It has nothing to fricking do with that. Old Internet was new, exciting, experimental, fast, efficient, with millions of individual sites.
New Internet is centralized, cold, corporate, bloated af, slow af, boring, where every damn page looks the same and is loaded with ads, codes of conduct, legalese, censorship, spying, yet is designed to be addictive as crack to fricking normies. If you don’t hate the modern Internet you’re a npc.
And to add to that: when print was still relevant there were rules for professional graphic design yet somehow magazines were still creative and interesting. The modern web is just the same cookie cutter WordPress themes over and over, even when it’s not WP.