◆ [Date updated: 2024/05/20(Mon) 14:54:32]
■it's kind of messed up how this is like the one site I can use in a non
│JS browser
│at least, the one interactive website, everything else that works is
│static pages
│
│I'm posting from Links in the terminal. I used to be able to actually
│use Links as a "real" browser across the internet 15 years ago. Hell,
│when I was on a cruise a while back, using Links was basically required
│since the at-sea internet connection just couldn't handle anything more
│than pure text lol
│
└■JS can be handy; it's used for a number of things on the main site, but
│everything can work fine without it. Sites shouldn't require JS to work,
│it should be an extra like on Heyuri ヽ(´ー`)ノ
│15 years ago was 2009, still too late for terminal browsers to be useful
│
└■a ton of stuff didn't need JS to merely load at all in 2009, since AJAX
│page loading hadn't taken over the world yet (I'd say it was a lost
│cause by 2014)
│quite a few sites would be broken to an extent, but you'd still be able
│to browse and interact with them
│it wouldn't be a daily drive browser, but it would work
│
└■There was an era where many sites were entirely contained within Flash (;^Д^)
│
└■I don't miss that one bit. (´¬`)
│I miss Flash for a fair few reasons (the web animation scene completely
│changed after it died out as a commonly used tool, same with web games),
│but all-Flash sites were a pain-in-the-ass.
│
│You couldn't bookmark parts of it, you couldn't hit the back button, you
│couldn't save shit from it, you had to wait for the (often slow)
│animations, and in the mid-00s I still had dialup so I'd have to wait
│ages for the site to load (by 09, I definitely had DSL).
│
└■I remember I wanted to show a friend the Gorillaz website (phase 1 era),
│but his internet sucked so hard that we went off to do something else
│while it loaded... only for it to still be loading when we returned liek
│30 mins later. Eventually we gave up (´∇`)
│
└■Back in those days, I'd load a bunch of pages at once, go eat or watch
TV, then come back to see which ones loaded. My family had a second
phone line for Internet (it was supposed to be just a second line, but
it ended up being dominated by Internet use), so I could leave it just
running like that.
if something still hadn't loaded, usually by the time you were done with
one of the other pages, it would have
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