Like fuck all the proprietary junk and versioning, and just have a bare bones HTML ASCII extranet designed to be simple and without any bugs to patch? Obviously a naive question.

But seriously, the 56k dialup world with Napster GeoCities and AOL Instant Messenger was better. Add capacitive touch screens, current data throughput infra, and lithium batteries to 1999 and we are peak Matrix internet territory. Yahoo and net navigator were better than chrome stalkerware and google digislaver fascism.

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[–] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Check out Chinese internet. There's shit everywhere.

It's vs

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Wait, are we suppose to be in favor of the first one? I think like maybe a 25% tone down/declutter of the one on the right is a good sweet spot that's comfy and livable.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    First one is elegant but has no charm or personality. Second one feels like people are living there and enjoying it.

    First one says "i have money but no real friends". :)

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