soon only machines will comunicate with machines

The same ugly philosophy has been going on at Flickr, constant changes that are hated by all, each worse than the last, never ending.

Gone are text, articles, facts, expositions, etc
Replacing it are speak-n-spell type pictograms, talking points, and clickbait.

it is being tailored for idiots who can only take soundbites

I have no idea what the point is for 100 pages of bullshit code generated by some insane utility. Gobs of cookies, trackers, and other spy stuff in that code telling Google and the site owners more about me than telling me about them doesn't cut it.

On my home computer I might wait for a minute for the damn pages to settle down and then can't copy text. Optimum keeps bragging about their download speed, but then it takes forever for their own pages to load.

Our phones and the internet are that vacuum that as they get faster must be filled with bullshit.

I found some old pages I put together in HTML 4 and they loaded in microseconds-- looked damn good, too.

...where everything is designed to magically arrange itself on both smart phone screens and giant monitors, and it all looks horrible.

The very thing that attracted me to the World Wide Web, the economy and simplicity of HTML, has been discarded so commercial interests can push abominations like advertisements that move, or even worse, make noise.

Sometimes I want to burn it all down, and start all over again at some simple place that renders everything in the user's preferred terminal style.

Occasionally I'll write or find a script to render sites the way I want to see them, but that's a bother, and I shouldn't have to do it. The default style of any site should be MY STYLE and I like it simple.

Its ruining the internet in my opinion.

one for mobiles, one for everyone else. That would be fine by me, I don't use my phone for anything but a phone. But I bet the non-mobile sites would be treated as second-class. Mobile users are in a bigger hurry to be separated from their cash -- I long ago decided the iPhone was basically a tool for spending money.

Maybe we'll have to go back to fidonet, or something. I kind of like the idea of a People's Web -- no commerce.

The "full" web site and an abbreviated mobile site.

Now it's edited as a single site and the software takes care of the rest.

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to those that were. But that's no excuse for contracting "full-width fever" and sacrificing desktop/laptop design for tablet/smartphone. Thankfully WordPress and some others are showing that you can design for them simultaneously and have the best of both worlds.

Change for the sake of change? That explains the rush to left sidebars and single-column blog pages -- everybody's doing it because now everybody can do it. But rest assured a counter-revolution has begun: someone has made a right-sidebar WordPress theme already, and here's a site I'm working on:

http://branchburgnj.com


rocktivity

And look what popped up





It's as if Siobhan Sharpe, Anna Rampton and Will Humphries (Cool, Yeah?) were real characters!



W1A is hilarious. Last episode of the series tomorrow!