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   josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 21:04:10 JST josef

   the first computer that was ever mine was a toshiba satellite 420 (hehe) running windows 95. no internet connection whatsoever. all the software i had access to was from shareware/warez/cover CDs. so many great programs, creative tools, games, hidden behind the little icons of .exe files. in contrast, my first experiences of the web were "iexplore pops up with a broken page". maybe as a result of this i still don't really value the web as a platform or feel like it's a 'real' medium

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     josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 20:30:37 JST josef

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     when we eventually got dial-up, and i was able to access the actual web, i wasn't impressed by that either. just a load of dead ends and broken jpegs, while the phone bill was gradually increasing. tick, tick. i liked a lot of the websites, the good ones had Downloads, which meant you could grab something, hang up the connection and actually start having fun. but they were still very subpar compared to the glory of the 750MB warez CD-R

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     𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e (enkiv2@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 01:13:10 JST 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e

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     • Robert Atkins

     @ratkins @jk

     Correction: the web is an *OK* hypertext browsing system.

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     Robert Atkins (ratkins@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 01:13:11 JST Robert Atkins

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     @jk You’re absolutely 100% correct about this. The web is a great hypertext browsing system but a *terrible* application platform. All web “apps” live right at the bottom of the uncanny valley of software UIs, who knows what this button will do when I click it or what invisible and unnecessarily asynchronous process will be kicked off before it responds. It’s terrible and what baffles me is *nobody seems to care*. Nobody under the age of forty even remembers anything different!

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