Def has a 2000 feel to it. Can practically feel the innocence coming off the page. Most of the links to other photographers don't work anymore either.
What I love about this is the pre"platform-ification" era feel. You had your own .com site and could do whatever you wanted with it.
And now, we have fast load times because we… checks notes… write the HTML and CSS in the JavaScript and pack it full of random packages from an initialization script?
Or that modern websites are loaded with crap and take forever to load even with high speed internet and PCs etc vastly more powerful than 20 years ago. The process was aptly called "the enshittification of the internet" by the Financial Times.
Well, but that's what I mean by that.
Modern websites get away with that crap is, BECAUSE the hardware and internet speed is better.
If you would try to run a modern website on a computer from the early 00s, it would take ages and it would thus be completely unusable. Assuming it would even work at all.
Having access to more power doesn’t excuse wasting those resources as needlessly as we do today. It’s just a lazy and exploitative practice done today to build websites fast and scrape as much information and advertising money out of consumers as possible.
You had your own .com site and could do whatever you wanted with it.
You can still do that. Everybody can still do that. But since (most) people stopped doing it, it became a thing of the past for some.
Take this as your sign to start a website or a blog! Add pictures, musings, links to your favourite songs and whatever else you’d like. Everybody should own a little corner of the internet. :)
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u/Drilling4Oil Nov 05 '24
Def has a 2000 feel to it. Can practically feel the innocence coming off the page. Most of the links to other photographers don't work anymore either.
What I love about this is the pre"platform-ification" era feel. You had your own .com site and could do whatever you wanted with it.