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Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

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Post by Baeocystin »

s1artibartfast wrote: post #166
3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #103

I actually love this, and I bookmarked it. Why? Not just because of nostalgia. Web 1.0 sites had a different set of UI idioms, which seem unintuitive to us, as we're too set in our new ways now. If you get past the fact they're ugly by modern standards, you'll see these sites accomplishing amazing results through startlingly simple means. It's an excellent source of inspiration, and if you combine those ideas with mo…

I still don't believe modern we design is actually preferred by the masses. Ofen times it isn't even a balance between aesthetics an clarity, because the modern pages are broken or otherwise unusable. It has gotten to the point where I wonder if maybe I'm not neurotypical. I'll take sites formatted like Craigslist 100% of the time. Now I'm just waiting for windows OS to fully replace file navigation text with iconogr…

I think a lot of modern web design suffers from the same AB testing failures that got Pepsi into trouble back in the coke/pepsi days of the 80's. I may be misremembering the details, but the gist was that Pepsi was a bit sweeter, and so in the tiny amounts that people tasted during taste tests, they usually prefer the sweeter drink. In normal use, however, that flavor of Pepsi was too sweet, and sales tanked.

I see the same problem with user tests. People almost always pick the simpler of two options, because at the time they have no reason to pick anything else, and that looks easier. But then you start trying to get actual work done, and the Fisher Priced interface is too simplified.

And I know it's not just you or me that prefer information dense websites. Look at how well-known McMaster's site is, among people who actually need to use it to get work done.

Even in general public terms, things have gone too far. I set up a lot of iPads for elderly folks for use in assistive communication, and I have to go out of my way to use ones that have buttons. The modern ones without a home button are just too complicated for a whole swath of our population, and I am not exaggerating.

Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

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Post by lolinder »

varjag wrote: post #147
mulmen wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They didn’t eat the entire Internet. They didn’t even eat the web. They set up parallel walled gardens. The web is still there. Personal websites just don’t scale to the masses. This is fine and probably for the best.

It's a nice theory if not for the fact that one never seem to run into things like these off Web searches.

marginalia.nu will turn up a lot of these.

https://search.marginalia.nu/

Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

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Post by msla »

glenstein wrote: post #26
adra wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1.0 was mostly static web pages with content changes largely driven by manual page updates to static web resources. This was the era where most sites were powered by an httpd host. 2.0 was when databases and ajax (JavaScript async) started to take over as a web content delivery form. Often content delivery moved from semantic page navigation flows to "single page applications" where the client state was often held cl…

I fully agree that 3.0 is the marketing term for decentralized cryptobro stuff, but isn't it also a term that tentatively belonged to a more generic idea of a regular web that iterates beyond web 2.0?

No. Web 3.0 is only defined in terms of marketing buzz tied to crypto. It has zero use outside of that.
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