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   Mia (web luddite) (mia@front-end.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Feb-2026 10:50:35 JST Mia (web luddite)

   The narrative that #CSS was initially designed to be static, and only later became responsive with things like media, supports, container queries, and now if()… is maybe how things turned out?

   But MQs were part of the original proposal – including document age queries, & user "relevance" queries.

   This wasn't a big pivot in the vision of the language, but a more continuous project of realizing that vision in relation to changing author needs & browser capabilities over time.

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     Jon Lunman (jlunman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Feb-2026 10:50:32 JST Jon Lunman

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     • Jen Simmons

     @jensimmons @mia Indeed, many folks forget (or weren't aware) that web apps existed long before javascript became ubiquitous. As far back as the mid-to-late 90s, we had fully web-based apps for email, live chat, online banking, stock trading, tax prep, mapping and directions, and enterprise apps of all sorts. (And they were usable even over slow dial-up internet connections.)

     Fun fact, the original branding of Hotmail (pre-microsoft acquisition) emphasized the letters H T M L in their logo.

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     Jen Simmons (jensimmons@front-end.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Feb-2026 10:50:34 JST Jen Simmons

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     @mia When people claim the web was invented to present static documents, (a giant pile of Word files), and didn’t become interactive until “web apps” were “invented”… uh. My dude. The web was interactive from day 1. Hypertext reinvented human communication. Even things like mainstream film story structure were revolutionized by the web. It was NOT “dumb” documents until 2015. The web was never supposed to be just papers. Believing so reveals ignorance to historical reality — or a corrupt agenda.

     Tim Chambers repeated this.