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Post #3267190
2026-06-08 04:00 UTC
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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The barrier to entry was raised, is the point, the internet became five shit websites posting screenshots of the other four because the technical barrier to entry was raised, from "Find a guy outside a computer market and pay him a fiver" to "Learn to code. Also learn to code two websites for every one website. Actually four websites now because dark mode."
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social I did a bit of early Web site design myself. I mostly did it all in my text editor (I think I was using UltraEdit32 back then? Maybe?) I knew up to HTML 4.01 back in the day. But when CSS stuff blew up and everyone made it clear that the Web was moving permanently to it, I quit right then and there and never made another thing.
(I have, of course, since forgotten basically everything.)
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