Comments | readongentle: The Internet is Messy

readongentle

The Internet is Messy

Mar 10, 2009 11:13

The internet should be accessible using a pentium one with hardly any ram (I don't know much about ram), or maybe even a 386 or 486. Everything should be text. Images are ugly and messy. If people want pictures, they can have things made of simple lines or dots. It would be aesthetically and psychologically more appealing. There should at ( Read more... )

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readongentle March 9 2009, 22:26:38 UTC

The same with code. I'm not sure what this would mean, but you know, Java and html can be so messy, with all their image and colour capabilities and pre-formed pieces of code that lie around and this and that. Nothing is quite simple enough.

Maybe I need to be a bit more hedonistic. Maybe the whole internet should just be images of cute cats and pets with funny slogans. I'd also quite like that.

anonymous March 10 2009, 03:09:23 UTC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

joshblog is still lynx-readable!

readongentle March 11 2009, 00:47:51 UTC

I'm so happy to hear from you ... yes, your blog is as I wish mine was. By the way, have you ever seen 'Swept Away', the Madonna/Guy Ritchie movie?

anonymous March 11 2009, 07:42:27 UTC

er, i had never thought to, but it kind of looks like a bad idea. i do like elizabeth banks and jeanne tripplehorn, though?

matariki March 11 2009, 08:08:30 UTC

You can turn off automatic-loading of images and Java in your web browser. This is how I used the internet in 1994 on a 386 with a 7200 modem. Those were the days. There was no adverts and no spam. And people drew pictures with lines and dots and letters and numbers and punctuation.

pansyriot March 14 2009, 06:53:15 UTC

Sometimes I like to go on the web archive and look at the sites I used in 1995. It was kinda good when the internet was just for nerds.

pansyriot March 14 2009, 03:53:48 UTC

Yeah, sometimes I miss the internet circa 1995. Pictures were such a novelty.