Post #3318023
2026-06-08 04:19 UTC
Raising the barrier to entry wasn't just down to, like, "Oh it's because phones" or "Fucking facebook and amazon," it was us. It was, like, "See this badge that leads to a code validation page, that means I actually know what I'm doing," it was shit like saying "Domain name" instead of "Web address" and when too many people knew what a domain name was we started saying "DNS Zone," it was telling people for fuck's sake don't go giving money to folk who still make websites using pirated copies of dreamweaver, give money to me instead because I know how to make a website the Incredibly Boring way.
Our, Nerd Fucking Desire to be Special.
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social 2026-06-08 04:23
We made website-making harder, to show that we can do a thing that's very hard and that normal people can't do. Elitism. But, like, very very petty elitism. Making a website should be the easiest fucking thing in the world by now. There should be a program that you can use to spit out a website as easy as Word spits out words on paper, and we - us fucking foss nerds or whoever - should've made it. It probably would've made shit HTML code soup but so long as it worked, it wouldn't matter, nobody would care, just like nobody cared that Frontpage put out shit HTML code soup. Well, nobody cared except the likes of us, and look where that got us.