Proposal to Go Back to the 90s Web

Proposal to go back to the 90s web standard #123 Open aarondc opened this issue 5 days ago · 4 comments aarondc commented 5 days ago While everyone is opening issues to criticize this proposal, nobody has suggested any ways to actually improve it. So I'm going to go a little bit further and make a proposal to make the web actually a much better and usable space, by reverting back to the late 90's standard (fuck you call it that anyways). That's right, let's go back to the times when Google was not evil and, in fact, their motto was "don't be evil", instead of being the "icon of sin" of the modern web. Some (but not all) of the benefits of the old 90's standard include: 1. Lightweight for mobile devices. 2. Responsive by default (No divs, only text and images, and AVI movies). 3. Less dynamic, more secure (Javascript is used only to make clocks, animated snow effects and such). 4. Awesome graphics, thanks to animated GIFs, jpegs and PNGs. 5. The current standard has as many pages as the entire Bible and the Quixote together. The older standards didn't have as many. Clients (browsers) were pretty easy to implement. 6. Ads were static and smaller, and would allow you to actually browse the site and read it's content. Instead of covering the entire page. 7. Admins didn't value privacy because it was granted by default (duh!). 8. Sites didn't call home with user data because your browser didn't have a way to call home, unless it's using third party plugins. 9. HTML over Gopher (Because everyone knows Gopher was the superior protocol). And so on. I know a lot of you will argue that back in those times browsers still didn't allow any standard and that made things more difficult. Also there is the fact that most sites relied on third party plugins (mostly Adobe Flash, shockwave, Java applets, etc) for them to work or offer dynamic content, which was even more insecure. Nothing else, though, the web was very naive and nobody wanted to be infiltrated by companies spying on our browsers.

На экране ноутбука показан сатирический пост на GitHub с предложением вернуть веб-стандарты 1990-х годов. Автор перечисляет якобы преимущества старого веба: простой HTML, анимированные GIF, отсутствие слежки и маленькую статическую рекламу, одновременно насмехаясь над современными сайтами и Google. Мем используют как саркастическую реакцию на перегруженный, навязчивый и следящий современный интернет. EN: A laptop screen shows a satirical GitHub post proposing a return to 1990s web standards. The author lists the supposed benefits of the old web—simple HTML, animated GIFs, no tracking, and small static ads—while mocking modern websites and Google. The meme is used as a sarcastic reaction to today’s bloated, intrusive, surveillance-heavy internet.

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