A revival of our old internet...
I wanted to write about this since a few days ago but a person asked me the other day why this website was so barebones and that if I was actually just working on a proper design.
And he was shocked when I told him that indeed the goal was to just make the whole site imperfect everywhere on purpose, with a barebones Web 1.0/2.0 design in mind with the sole exeption being the PSOBB server side because requires a little bit more of color.
To put you in context I've been working as a Web Developer even since I started to dabble with Frontpage during my early High School days back in 2000 and began to do more serious stuff starting 2001 and onwards.
During these almost 24 years on the field i've witnessed first-hand how the web evolved in front of me and the tools around and to be honest, I'm extremelly dissaopinted with the results, bloated, unesessary guidelines, useless frameworks, horrible design trends that are not even design anymore, every website that used to be ran by people (bots and AI clickbaity sites dont count) are dissapearing and relying only on major social networks for awareness, all the forums and BBS gone and replaced by Discord and on and on.....
Sure you might think its a huge waste of money to defy these odds and run a lone server in the middle of the net but haven't you noticed this either? You don't have to be a professional in the field to notice! the internet is actually dissapearing...... in fact! currently theres a struggle to keep feeding the AI models with new information beacuse they already scrapped most of the internet new/old webpages already! and now are planning to scrap data from Youtube videos what the hell!!!
In a not so distant future, imperfect websites like this will be the ones that will be your cue to know they are actually ran by a person behind the scenes and not a robot or a bot because right now most new websites are actually being created by AI/Bots to be consumed by other AI/Bots !!
And he was shocked when I told him that indeed the goal was to just make the whole site imperfect everywhere on purpose, with a barebones Web 1.0/2.0 design in mind with the sole exeption being the PSOBB server side because requires a little bit more of color.
To put you in context I've been working as a Web Developer even since I started to dabble with Frontpage during my early High School days back in 2000 and began to do more serious stuff starting 2001 and onwards.
During these almost 24 years on the field i've witnessed first-hand how the web evolved in front of me and the tools around and to be honest, I'm extremelly dissaopinted with the results, bloated, unesessary guidelines, useless frameworks, horrible design trends that are not even design anymore, every website that used to be ran by people (bots and AI clickbaity sites dont count) are dissapearing and relying only on major social networks for awareness, all the forums and BBS gone and replaced by Discord and on and on.....
Sure you might think its a huge waste of money to defy these odds and run a lone server in the middle of the net but haven't you noticed this either? You don't have to be a professional in the field to notice! the internet is actually dissapearing...... in fact! currently theres a struggle to keep feeding the AI models with new information beacuse they already scrapped most of the internet new/old webpages already! and now are planning to scrap data from Youtube videos what the hell!!!
In a not so distant future, imperfect websites like this will be the ones that will be your cue to know they are actually ran by a person behind the scenes and not a robot or a bot because right now most new websites are actually being created by AI/Bots to be consumed by other AI/Bots !!
