I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
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I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
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Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#2I’m working on a musical project and the website alone fucking rocks.
atticshapes.com
I reviewed before adding comment, and I feel like changing info@ to webmaster@ now, in homage to the internet.
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#3I really wish I could experience the web back then at 1993 (I'm 25). I imagine much faster, and intuitive websites than nowadays. Beautiful UX is one thing but making a website feels natural, that's what I think the internet is missing today.
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#4I feel that as raw and unpolished as the web of those vanished days was, there was still significantly less fucking than Justin Jackson remembers.
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#5I’m working on a musical project and the website alone fucking rocks. atticshapes.com I reviewed before adding comment, and I feel like changing info@ to webmaster@ now, in homage to the internet.
Clean and simple.
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#6I miss those times.
I could spend hours complaining about the depressive current state of the web, I imagine being a newcomer to such world and have to handle the over complexity of the current scenario without knowing that things could be simpler.
I remember seeing a team member migrating a project from grunt to webpack, the project was just a 404 page. "You need to compile your assets" they say, just a cat *.css > site.css would do it. Or even better, just do it inside the HTML and that is it.
People who need a JS library to check if a number is odd or even went way too far, I'm not exaggerating - https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-odd
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#7I really wish I could experience the web back then at 1993 (I'm 25). I imagine much faster, and intuitive websites than nowadays. Beautiful UX is one thing but making a website feels natural, that's what I think the internet is missing today.
Faster? Not really. Even with ISDN, stuff was slow af. 8000 bytes per second just isn't a lot. Latency was often high as well.
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#8I miss those times. I could spend hours complaining about the depressive current state of the web, I imagine being a newcomer to such world and have to handle the over complexity of the current scenario without knowing that things could be simpler. I remember seeing a team member migrating a project from grunt to webpack, the project was just a 404 page. "You need to compile your assets" they say, just a cat *.css >…
First job title in 2007 was "web master". 15 years later and i feel more like a web dinosaur than a web master. sick of it all.
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#9I know this is kind of negative: but I don't like nostalgia much and I think I like tech-nostalgia least.
Don't get me wrong I like old tech, but just for what it is. Text based, simple, fast etc...but I don't like wallowing in a warm, fuzzy feeling about how it was.
I mean I personally do recall 5.25" disks. I liked their look and feel as a kid. Fine. But making a big deal out of it feels retrograde...
Re: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
#10I really wish I could experience the web back then at 1993 (I'm 25). I imagine much faster, and intuitive websites than nowadays. Beautiful UX is one thing but making a website feels natural, that's what I think the internet is missing today.
Faster? Not really. Even with ISDN, stuff was slow af. 8000 bytes per second just isn't a lot. Latency was often high as well.
Can you imagine how fast those websites would be today, though, compared to modern websites?