Post #3267189

2026-06-08 03:49 UTC

See the iPhone was fucking shit compared to other smartphones at the time, like it was YEARS behind, but apple did that thing where, like, remember how they did it with MP3 players? Instead of saying stuff like "four gigs of space, six hour battery life" they said "A thousand songs in your pocket and you don't have to fuck around with CDs," while all the other MP3 player makers were fighting over people who already knew about MP3 players, apple targeted people who'd never used an MP3 player before, and that's what they did with their smartphone. Anyway it didn't have a keyboard, it couldn't do flash, and you couldn't even copy and paste on the fucker but it sold like buggery because the adverts didn't say shit like "600mHz processor and 256 megs of RAM," they said "The internet in your pocket." Now you can't make just one website anymore, you have to make two websites, and suddenly the point of all this CSS stuff becomes clear

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@ifixcoinops@retro.social 2026-06-08 04:00

So now you're making two websites, one for proper computers and one for shitty little three-inch screens. This is the point where, let's be honest, most folk check the fuck out. Myspace is a thing now, livejournal is a thing now, if you 'd your way into one website and it took you fucking ages you sure as fuck weren't gonna make two unless you understand that fancy new CSS shit. I understood that fancy new CSS shit. But fucking hell, even at the time I knew, despite how AAALLLLL the websites about making websites had been banging on about CSS for ages, despite how all the bloggers were saying hey look this is definitely the way forward, I knew that knowing how to use CSS for layout put me in an EXTREME minority. The web wasn't for quiet uncles or excitable kids with a pirated copy of dreamweaver off the tarp outside the Manchester computer fair anymore, it was for fucking nerds with notepad++ who'd gotten interested in web standards. It was for people like me. I'm not fond of people like me

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@darckcrystale@pipou.academy 2026-06-08 03:54

@ifixcoinops@retro.social please write a blog post

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