There's no better place to start than the world's first website, https://info.cern.ch, built by the researchers who invented the World Wide Web. No Ads. No popups. Zero nagging to download app or subscribe to newsletter or paywall. It is simple and easy to use.
#history #internet
Given the amount of lies and nonsense published nowadays I am getting second thoughts… sigh…
Yet when I clicked to learn about the "birth of the web" I was immediately confronted by the death of the web.
A slow-loading site with a custom twirly loading animation, then an image that takes up the full screen so I'd need to scroll to even see any content with a navigation bar that shrinks / grows and changes color based on how far through the page I've scrolled so clickable navigation elements are moving targets.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social Like it should be 😉
And doesn't the below look user friendly?
Easy to use, relaxing.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social Something so strange about visiting a website you know is older than you.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social I mean, in my opinion, the internet peaked with zombocom. All downhill from then on.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social Looks like #gopher or #geminiprotocol
That is to say that it looks clean and informative.
From a good start HTML degenerated pretty quickly to something blinking, image and video blasting attack vector.
"Might I interest you in a cookie. My 2843 closest friends want to track you, learn your behavior and blast you with ads."
@nixCraft@mastodon.social it was kinda nice in 1995 to write your own HTML on the Amiga 1200, test it with iBrowse. save it on a floppy disk (yea web sites can be saved on disks) and read it on the schools windows 3.11 internet exploder browser.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social getting https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ vibes.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social Still funny
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