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I miss older html internet (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ignoring the security implications, I miss kb large old raw html websites that loaded instantly on DSL internet. Nowadays shit is too fancy because hardware allows that, but I feel we're just constantly running into more bugs first and then worry about them later.

Edit: I've thought more about it, and I think I just missed the simplicity of the internet back then. There's just too much bloat these days with ad trackers and misinformation. I kinda forgot just how bright and eye jarring most old UIs were lol.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I remember building the first web site for our company many, many years ago. It was Friday afternoon, approaching 16:00, and I was eying my jacket hanging next to the office door, when the owner and CEO came in and told me that he had come to the conclusion that we need a web site.

When I left the office at about 22:00, we had one. The CEO and I had sat down together while I set up an apache on a linux box on the desk across from me, and he actually learned a bit of HTML while following me "designing" a web page with a text editor and painting tool. It had everything we needed back then.

Even today, I have the habit of cleaning up HTML perpetrated by horrible tools, most often Word or Calibre.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

wiby.me/surprise/

I set this as my home on chrome

It should load some older websites at random each time it's opened

[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

That's an awesome idea

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I'm still the old school developer that refuses to build JavaScript only sites. I build sites html first, and add some JS here and there to add some bling. But I never make it a requirement

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Who cares about performance when you can have performance

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Man, I feel the same.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You might be interested in htmx. While not fully as simple as html it tries to avoid the issues that come with large complex structures that SPA style websites often utilize

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It's obviously not got everything, but Gemini is a protocol that really harks back to web 1.0, and there's a real fun niche going on there. Worth a check out:

https://geminiprotocol.net/

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The new https://gamersnexus.net/ website is pretty damn fast. Be like the boy!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Me too but the money came and we will never be able to go back.

Capitalism dirties everything it touches and destroys what we love in the name of allmighty profit.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A couple of helpful tips to get back that lightning fast feeling...

Disable Javascript. I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-javascript/
If you're using a phone, try PureBrowser

It's incredible how fast things load when you use one of those options! Although I appreciate a few websites simply refuse to work

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Can you share some examples of issues you're having?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I never claimed to have issues? I'm just saying the internet today is just filled with so much bloat and ad trackers. I do like some changes over time, but the era of just raw html and organized websites, and a lack of clickbait was nice.

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