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.
Neocities!
There’s another: https://thebestmotherfucking.website/
Wow that was a beautiful journey
A prophet in these troubled times.
The new https://gamersnexus.net/ website is pretty damn fast. Be like the boy!
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.
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
Can you share some examples of issues you’re having?
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.
I set this as my home on chrome
It should load some older websites at random each time it’s opened
That’s an awesome idea
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
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:
Not that unpopular an opinion I bet.
Google thinks otherwise :(
Unfortunately, Google is also complicit in this
The Google front page is no longer plain HTML but apparently, they spent a lot of time optimising the logo so it could load in less than a second on a dial-up connection. It’s still remarkably plain when compared to other search engines though.
I saw a web page from 1999 today and as a full stack dev I immediately clicked away bc obvi NSFW
BUT then I had the urge to go back to this simple ass web “site” and just admire it for a second like “wow, someone probably spent weeks on this 2 day design”.
Tbh afterwards I was kind of in awe that every option was available on each page with no sidebars or extra clicks. Not slick but quick tho!
There was a design/development company which made sites and they bragged about making pixel perfect web sites. I can’t for the life of me find them again but I remember when I saw their portfolio it was like porn for web developers. Everything was done simply and with least amount of images possible, but it looked so good.
I just learned about https://neocities.org/, seems up your alley
I instantly hit the Firefox Reader Mode button or turn on Brave’s accessibility reader. They cut all the crap out of most websites. Bonus is they often remove paywalls.
There isn’t a day I don’t think about how annoying the modern web is. Fancy crap, GDPR, a trillion frameworks weighing 1mb+ each, a ton of useless extra info for SEO and whatnot. All to see the pure information I initially seeked saying “yes”. Which could’ve been a 1kb site.
The GDPR is not annoying. The fact that it is necessary is annoying.
Truetrue. Yet it still doesn’t serve much of a protection service. What should we care a about a tracking-cookie when most sites use multiple tracking-scripts anyway? Or force you to either accept or pay. Or simply deny entry at all.
I just need another plugin to block another thing…
This web thing is okay, but it will never replace Gopher.
Gopher is still alive :)
See?
Ahh ok. It sounded like “i miss gopher”.
I was joking. The first thing was something I actually said around 1993.
I miss kb large old raw html websites that loaded instantly on DSL internet
Instantly? We had very different DSL connections 😳
It depends on when you had it. I had a 4Mb connection when most people were still on dialup, and it flew.
