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What do you miss from the old internet?
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When sites were designed for desktop/landscape, instead of beig lazy and designing everything for mobile and not creating different desktop and mobile versions.
Also, social media not trying to be everything. Nowadays, every social media is racing to be the all-in-one platform for microblogging, forums, short-form video, long-form video, etc. instead of focusing on the thing they were made for and do best.
Tbf that first one is more a result of web devs kinda slapping an "adjust for mobile/desktop" line into the page files to save time for other tasks the middle manager is breathing down their neck about
I think there might have been a secondary shift.
Era 1: we have things like media queries or some unholy Javascript hoisting to adjust layout as the page size changes, But the site targets 1024 pixel wide or larger screens as the default and subtracts or hides items as it shrinks.
Era 2: we kept the tools but assumed a 350-pixel wide phone is default. When you take it to a desktop, it reflows the text wider but doesn't add back, for example, the menus that were hidden behind a hamburger icon on mobile.