The web is fucked and there’s nothing we can do about it. Kev Quirk looks back fondly at Web 1.0.

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    1 year ago

    Out of curiosity, I have always thought text only web pages would have been way more accessible at the time were RSS was still a thing, then the blinking ad ridden pages you get nowadays.

    You tell me that wasn’t a thing?

    • cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me
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      1 year ago

      a) RSS is still a thing, I use it every day.
      b) This author talks about a different kind of webpages that are “weird and quirky”. This is not exactly text only:

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      c) Ads are easily blocked. “Design” is much harder to fix. I rarely ever see anything blinking on modern pages, but I also use uBlock Origin everywhere, and uMatrix on desktop.